Aesthetic goals like losing weight fade fast, but performance milestones like your first pull-up or a 5K keep you showing up. Tie fitness to what your body can do, not how it looks, and you'll actually get out of bed at 5AM.
Working with hundreds, thousands of women. What I have seen is that when women tie an esthetic goal to fitness being how I look, I want to lose five pounds, I want to fit into my pre baby jeans. The motivation just runs dry fast. I don't know what it is, but the motivation is not there. Wanting to lose 10 pounds or fit into your pre baby jeans somehow will not get you out of bed at 5am when you said you were going to do that. But if you can tie a progress goal to your fitness journey. I want to do 10 push ups, I want to get my first pull up, I want to do 10 unassisted pull ups, I want to run my first 5k. Whatever it is for you, right? When you can tie this progress goal, it gives you something to work towards and it becomes a whole different motivator that pulls you out of bed at 5am or for me, that pulled me through a really dark season when I couldn't work out anymore because I had knee surgery. And so I just think that there's so much weight in setting progressive goals versus aesthetic goals. And so not looking at fitness as something as like, this is what I do because I want to look this way or this is my punishment for eating this, but really tying it to like this is what is going to get me to playing with my grandkids and going hiking and taking them on a hiking trip when I'm 70 years old.
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