How to stick to your goals
Things like healthy eating, regular exercise and giving up smoking can have a real positive impact on our mental and physical health and are central to many people’s New Year's resolutions.
Every year millions of people make resolutions yet almost 80% of us fail to achieve them. Most of us strive for unrealistic goals and ultimately set ourselves up for a failure.
Be realistic
Unattainable goals are often the enemy of achievable resolutions. Change one small thing at a time.
Planning helps
Don't wait until the last minute - plan ahead.
Don't wait until the last minute - plan ahead.
Develop a support network
Friends, family and colleagues can all help you - talk to them about what you're planning to do and tell them how they can help.
Friends, family and colleagues can all help you - talk to them about what you're planning to do and tell them how they can help.
Measure your successes
Stay motivated by measuring how far you've come each week, whether it is miles or inches. This will help you realise how small changes can make a big difference.
Stay motivated by measuring how far you've come each week, whether it is miles or inches. This will help you realise how small changes can make a big difference.
Reward yourself
Celebrate when you succeed with a treat, which doesn't necessarily have to be the thing you're trying to avoid. You might reward the first month of your successful diet with a night at the cinema.
Celebrate when you succeed with a treat, which doesn't necessarily have to be the thing you're trying to avoid. You might reward the first month of your successful diet with a night at the cinema.
Treat failure as a small setback
If you slip and break your diet, forget to exercise or have a secret cigarette, don’t despair! Learn from the setback: what situations made you slip? Can you avoid them next time? Don't obsess over small setbacks - it won't help you achieve your goal. Start fresh the next day. Don't give up!
If you slip and break your diet, forget to exercise or have a secret cigarette, don’t despair! Learn from the setback: what situations made you slip? Can you avoid them next time? Don't obsess over small setbacks - it won't help you achieve your goal. Start fresh the next day. Don't give up!
Make your resolution stick
After a couple of weeks, the changes you've made will become a habit and part of your routine, so don't be discouraged if you're still finding it hard after the first week. Stick to it and it will only get easier!
Give Virtual Fitness Training a try
Virtual Fitness Training gives you a set exercise and number of repetions or distance to be covered, that you must complete within a specified time period.After a couple of weeks, the changes you've made will become a habit and part of your routine, so don't be discouraged if you're still finding it hard after the first week. Stick to it and it will only get easier!
Give Virtual Fitness Training a try
By taking on one of these challenges once a month or whenever you need to push yourself. It can help to keep you motivated and on track with your fitness goals.
How does it work?
Sign up to the challenge you wish to attempt. You have one calender month to complete the challenge so have as many attempts as you need.
When you are ready to perform the challenge, record or get a friend to record you completing the task and upload it to us for verification.
Once verified, at the end of the event period a medal will be sent out to you.
We also support Macmillan Cancer Support charity so whilst you are keeping your fitness on track you are also helping to support a great charity in their work.
We make our donations via Givey which unlike some other organisations give 100% of your donation to the charity
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