Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Forming Good Habits with NYC Adventure Boot Camp


Stacy Papakostas Speaks Out!
Making the commitment to improve your habits is a great first step on the road to better health and fitness. However, this first step is quickly followed by making the actual changes, and this can be quite a challenge. Don’t lose hope if you find all the changes too difficult in the beginning, because eventually they’ll come to you like second nature. Here are a few tips to help change your old bad habits into successful ones.

Replace One Bad Habit at a Time
It can be so demoralizing when you realize that a lot of your bad habits need to be changed. Try changing one thing at a time and then moving on to the next one when the new good habit has become engraved. For example, if you have a problem with snacking between meals, try reaching for an apple or carrot instead of a bag of chips. Or if you have the habit of going through the drive through or parking as close as you can to the entrance of the grocery store, try parking and walking in or parking far away from the entrance, so you can get your legs moving.

You Don’t Have to Go Cold Turkey
The hardest part of making a lifestyle change is breaking yourself of all the bad habits that you’ve accumulated. The truth is, you don’t have to be a perfect angel overnight, and no one expects you to be! Improving your health won’t happen instantly and you’re going to have setbacks along the way.

Keep Track of Your Progress
Starting a new fitness or diet regime can be difficult in the beginning because you can’t always see the changes right away. In our culture of immediate gratification, it’s easy to be disheartened when you don’t see results in the first week. A great way to combat this is to keep track of your progress. There are several ways you can do this, whether you choose to measure the length of time you’re able to run or swim, or measuring yourself with a tape measure or calculating your BMI. If you have difficulty staying on track or sticking to a plan, you may consider joining a boot camp that is right for you! We will ensure that you safely and effectively meet your goals!

Not only can boot camp help you define your fitness goals and provide a fitness routine to help you achieve them, but checking in with your personal trainer from time to time can also give you another valuable tool accountability. Sometimes, all you need to make the right decisions, such as choosing a salad instead of a cheeseburger or doing your exercises instead of making excuses not to go, is remembering that you’ll have to explain your actions when you meet up with someone. Plus, when you do slip (and don’t worry when you do), we the professionals will be there to help you back on the right path and encourage you to keep up the good work.

Please visit our website http://www.nycadventure.com and call us at 212-426-4871.

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