The very first step to finding the right fitness motivation, and most importantly, sticking to it, is skipping all the current ‘rules’ you have for working out. Don’t worry so much about what you feel you are supposed to do, whether based on so-called fitness experts or your own hard and fast rules.

Your approach to exercise should not just be pushing yourself now in order to reach your goals, but thinking a lot about a long-term lifestyle change. Exercise is so much more than just losing weight or reaching the right fitness level, but being able to maintain this in the future.

Think about the workout rules you have had in the past, whether they were to do certain moves, always forcing yourself to fit in cardio a certain number of days, or making sure you hit the gym 6 days in a row, throw them out the window.

That obviously did not work to hold onto your fitness motivation long-term, so it is time to take a different approach for lasting results.