New Year's Resolutions: Not a Fad, But For Life

Happy Holidays! I had a wonderful Christmas, hope you did too. Now we are in the week before the new year or the calm before the storm. If you've been like me you have spent some time working out at the gym and have found it nice and quiet these last couple of weeks. Don't have to jostle for a space in classes or wait for someone to finish with equipment. I like it! Starting next week, this won't be the case, all the resolutioners, as I call them, will be joining the gym, (I've already seen them touring), and will be finding their way around, trying to figure out what that does and which classes they want to join. Things will feel crowded. As a nation of unfit people, I think it's fantastic that people decide to make a change to get fit and be healthy. The problem is that many will make the New Year's Resolution, workout for a couple of months and then give it up. They will then, next New Year's make the same resolution and consequently quit. That is the problem I have with making these resolutions. They are easy to make and just as easy to break. It's the New Year's fad. What I want to see are people choosing a healthy lifestyle for life. Living a life full of eating clean, exercising and wellness, is a full-time commitment and quitting shouldn't be an option. We all slack off, but if we value the benefits, we never quit outright. As much as I enjoy the quietness of the gym right now, if I knew the people joining and being kind of annoying the next few months were going to stay for the long-haul and blend in with the rest of us lifers, I would get used to a busy a gym and think it was a good thing. Happy exercising. I'm off to a quiet class...

Happy New Year!