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gym membership one year
has any one ever made it having a gym membership for a year? i just started at a gym up my street and ive been going about 4-5 times a week for a month now, and just signed up for a good deal for a year thing with my family. but now im thinking,,, a whole year! how will i possibly stay motivated and have time. plus ive got school and sports practice =[ just curious if anyones ever done it before without like quitting for awhile. haha thanks! and im 16 =]
ps. for me, mom, and brother its $54 dollars a month total. normally one person is $30 a month. =]
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It's easier to stay motivated when you enjoy what you're doing. So chant this mantra: "I love working out, I love going to the gym," and eventually it will become true.
Also, variety helps. It's never fun for me to go to the gym everyday knowing I'm going to run on the treadmill, then lift weights, then go home. That seems like a waste of time. Instead, one day you can use the elliptical and then a machine. Another day you could take a kickboxing class. The next day you could do some spinning and then run.
Think of it like this: wouldn't life be so boring if your day-to-day routine was the same? Going to the gym is nothing different.
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Well I have done it. Its not so hard once it become a way of life. It has to become as natural as taking a shower or eating a meal. Just something that one does.
Some ways to keep it interesting is to constantly challenge yourself and to mix things up. For weight training one usually runs cycles of 8 to 12 weeks. Then you take a week or so off and start a new cycle. This way you can plan your goals and emphasise certain things in certain periods (e.g. strength or muscle size or explosiveness or anaerobic endurance, etc.).
Also you can vary the intensity and focus so as to work around your schedule- so if you have a particularly hard few weeks with the sports you are playing, you adjust your cycle accordingly so as not to overtrain. Similarly in the off season, you can really focus on training yourself up. This applies also to cardiovascular and fitness training as well.
I personally like to make it into sort of a competition with myself. That may not be everyone's style though lol.
Good luck.
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