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What a year 2022 has been. With all of the lockdowns, home workouts, and online classes via Zoom, things changed a lot for the fitness world. But, it is that time of the year again when we are taking time off work for the holidays. And you know what comes after, right? New year’s resolutions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“An estimated 74% of Americans have New Year’s resolutions for 2023, while 12% of them don’t believe they will achieve them.”<\/p>\nCatherine Choi<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

New Year’s resolutions are a nice way for us to set goals. It’s the start of a new year. It feels like we are gifted another chance at doing something or building a positive habit or routine. More often than not, according to the statistics, things set us back so we’re unable to do as we planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are 4 ways you can stick to your fitness related New Year’s resolutions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Long- and short-term goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“I want to get a six-pack”<\/strong><\/em> or “I want to add 10 kilograms of muscle”<\/strong><\/em> are typical long term goals. One way to make them much more achievable and measurable is to think of smaller short-term goals within them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Using the six-pack<\/em> long-term goal as an example, you’d need to ask yourself a few questions first. What is your starting point? How much body fat do you need to lose so that your abdominal muscles show through? Do you have complete control over your diet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For someone to have a six-pack, there are a few conditions that need to be met. Having low body-fat and developed abdominal muscles are the main ones. In order to get lower body fat, you must be consuming less calories than they are burning each day. This can be done by controlling your diet more, exercising more, or (better yet) a combination of the two. To build more developed abdominal muscles, you need to perform exercises that target the abs in your regular exercise routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, how long you would need to do these things for really depends on your starting point. Someone with more body-fat and less experience with exercise would take longer than someone who is leaner and already works out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breaking this down…<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

So putting this all together. If “getting a six-pack”<\/em> is the long-term goal, the short-term goals could be something like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n