09/06/2025
6 Steps To Building New Habits 💪🏻
👉 Step 1: Find Your Reason ‘Why’ – This first initial step provides the deep, personal motivation you need to stick with your fitness journey. It’s also about connecting your workouts to your core values, long term aspirations, and the kind of life you want to live.
👉 Step 2: Create Specific Goals – This will provide a clear roadmap and strong motivation. An example of this would be “run a 5k in 3 months” or “deadlift 100kg”. This gives you a measurable target, allowing you to track progress, celebrate small wins, and adjust your plan as needed.
👉 Step 3: Find A Routine – This transforms exercise from a conscious effort into an automatic behaviour. By finding a regular time, place, and type of workout, you will create structure, instead of debating whether to go or not.
👉 Step 4: Tracking Progress - it shows you exactly how far you’ve come, keeps you motivated, and helps you train smarter. This visual proof is a huge motivator. It also helps you figure out what’s working (or not) so you can tweak your plan and keep pushing forward. Without tracking, you’re pretty much guessing, which makes it way harder to stay on track and hit your fitness goals!
👉 Step 5: Avoid ‘All or Nothing’ Mindset – Life happens, you get busy, tired, or sick and if your mindset dictates that one missed workout or a less than perfect effort means you’ve “failed,” it’s easy to throw in the towel completely. Instead, focusing on “something is better than nothing” allows for flexibility and imperfect consistency, which are the real keys to long term progress and making fitness a sustainable habit, even when things aren’t ideal.
👉 Step 6: Motivate Yourself with Kindness - Instead of harsh self-criticism for a missed workout or a not as successful workout, you offer understanding and encouragement. This approach acknowledges that setbacks are normal and allows you to bounce back without feeling guilty, which gives you a sense of self belief that makes you more likely to stick with your fitness journey long term!
