Setting up for Fitness Success

5 ways to establish a health-promoting environment

To be in great shape and maintain good health requires consistency and real effort at the gym.

However, one of the hardest parts is getting there.  

Is it easy? Not always, but there are tactics you can use to increase your likelihood of success.

Let me explain.

Even the hardest working would have a difficult time maintaining such good habits if their environment wasn’t set up for success.

Notice the difference here:

Person A:

Wakes up late and can’t find those gym shorts in the pile of laundry so they skip the gym.

Feels a little stressed after work so they order take-out pizza and have a movie night on the couch.

Person B:

Has an alarm set, clothes laid out, and gym bag packed the night before.

Maintains a full fridge of meal prep to come home to after a long day on the job.

Hypothetical Person A and Person B both have 24 hours in the day, however, Person B organizes their environment and allocates resources intelligently to ensure they get the most out of the day’s precious minutes.

Especially when it comes to health habits such as going to the gym and eating healthy, nearly all of us can benefit from removing the barriers and simplifying the process.

Here are five very straightforward environmental changes to get you on your way to a consistent and successful fitness routine: