Health and Fitness New Year's Resolutions

It's hard for me to believe but we are already starting the last month of the year. That means that it's time to start choosing your New Year's resolutions (okay truthfully I don't usually have true New Year's resolutions). I spend a lot of time reading and interacting on websites, blogs and internet forums covering fitness topics. Obviously I see a lot of resolutions by people that want to lose weight or get in better shape. But these things are hard enough to accomplish as it is. It seems like all New Year's resolutions are doomed to failure, so is it even a good idea to set fitness goals as New Year's resolutions?

To answer this I think that we have to look at a couple of problems with New Year's resolutions.

First we don't always really intend to keep them, it's traditional to make one (or more) thus we may pick something that sounds good when someone asks us what our resolution is but this doesn't mean that we are really intense about keeping it.

Second we often use a fitness resolution as an excuse to over indulge during the holidays. We are already out of shape and eating poorly and the holidays are such a hard time to workout and diet right. But if we are planning a diet or fitness related New Year's resolution then we often allow ourselves to eat even worse and workout even less because "I am going to work real hard after New Years, that's my New Year's resolution!"

So if you want to make a resolution to improve your diet or workout more, then that's great. I think that you should start this resolution right now! Not Monday, not tomorrow and certainly don't wait till next month. If something is important then why put it off? However I realize that many people aren't going to take this good (great) advice. If you insist on using the well being of your body as a New Year's resolution then I advise you to write down the reasons for doing this (longer life, less pain, etc) and re read them from time to time. Remind yourself that you are doing this for a purpose! Not just because it sounds good when someone asks you what your New Year's resolution is.

And make sure that you don't go wild from Thanksgiving till New Years because when you start your New Year's resolution then everything is going to be alright. Its okay to enjoy yourself a little bit, but it can take a lot of time and hard work to work off one gluttonous holiday and we have three of them in rapid succession.

Shane works with several websites, and so his writings are scattered over the internet. He is currently working on a few sports and fitness websites of his own and has just started working on a New Years resolutions website for the holiday, http://newyears-resolution.net

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