It’s here! I’m happy to say Change Your Mind About Exercise: Enjoy Your Workouts and Get Results by Thinking Differently About Fitness (affiliate link) is now available on Amazon.
Over my nearly 20 years as a fitness instructor and yoga teacher, I’ve seen a lot of people succeed with fitness—and I’ve seen a lot of people quit. What I’ve noticed is that sticking with it doesn’t have so much to do with a particular exercise or piece of equipment: it’s about looking at exercise as a long game, not a quick fix, and approaching it in a way that’s honest, forgiving, and patient.
What You’ll Find in This Book
Every short chapter in this book is an idea for how to shift your attitude or your habits to help you become someone who makes fitness a part of your life. Not because it’s comfortable—it’ll never be comfortable—but because of things like this:
- Find goals to pursue that have nothing to do with weight, and you celebrate progress in all its forms.
- Don’t fight the truly easy things you can do for your health and start focusing on bigger challenges.
- Accept that fitness isn’t a straight line: you may be fitter today than you ever will be again, even if you keep exercising. That doesn’t mean you should stop. And you don’t stop.
- Find a true support system and recognize when someone’s trying to sabotage your efforts.
- Stop suffering through your workouts.
- Quit relying on motivation and other tools and take charge of your own fitness and health.
It’s not a book that will change everything as soon as you read it. You have to find a connection with one or two of the tips and make a commitment to using them in your fitness life. I truly believe if you can do that, you’ll change your relationship with fitness for the better.
I’d Love to Hear From You!
After you read it, please share your thoughts with me! Which ideas resonated with you?
Or, whether you’ve read it or not: what’s a particular change in habit or approach that helped you transform your own relationship with exercise?