
Are you finding it hard to stick with your fitness plan? You may have started your workout program with lots of enthusiasm but over time lost some your original focus. Why does this happen? Sometimes other events in life can divert attention away from your fitness goals. At other times, you may become bored with your exercise routine. If you want to get back on track and restore some of your original motivation for exercise, it can be done by following a few simple steps. Here are some exercise motivation tips that can start you back on the path to fitness success:

Redefine your fitness goals and how you’re going to achieve them.
If you’ve lost your motivation for exercise, it’s important that you redefine your short term and long term goals. Sit down with a piece of paper and work out a list of fitness goals you want to achieve over both short and long term time periods. Be precise in your descriptions. For example, your goal might be to lose twenty pounds over the next three months. This becomes quite achievable when you consider you only have to lose a little over six pounds per month. You can break this down to a pound and a half of weight loss per week. At this point, outline a meal plan and an exercise plan to meet your defined goal. It’s important to refer back to your documented fitness goals on a weekly basis to make sure you’re staying on schedule.
When you don’t feel like exercise, give yourself options.
The hardest aspect of exercise is getting started each day. If you wake up one morning and don’t feel like exercising, give yourself permission to stop after ten minutes if you don’t regain your motivation for exercise. By giving yourself this allowance, you make it easier psychologically to get started. Once you get started, chances are you won’t want to stop when ten minutes has elapsed, and you’ll go on to complete your full exercise routine. If you do decide to stop, don’t persecute yourself. Just repeat the process the next day.