Were you one of the millions that added better fitness to your 2010 resolutions?

Go to the gym in January and you can see how many people added it to their resolutions.  The gyms are packed.  But we are starting to hit the time when many will quit and it will be back to the regulars again.  Make your fitness resolution stick.  Become a fitness regular and not a January drop in.  A few tips to make that happen:

1.  Make your fitness fun.  Many go to the gym and trudge through a workout without ever cracking a smile.  Who wants to keep that up?  If you go to the gym, then find a workout buddy to laugh with.  Play a sport and get your fitness that way some days a week.  Or think about buying the Wii fit plus and challenge yourself at home.  Making it fun will help you stick with it.

2.  Hire a trainer for a couple of weeks to get through the mental plateau that hits.  You can find a trainer at your gym and ask around.  Not a gym member?  There are quite a few trainers that will come to your house and set up programs.  It’s how I started my training business actually and I still love to make house calls.  There are also very affordable training programs you can join online.  You can have a world-class trainer creating workouts for you by joining Denise Austin’s .

3.  Double check you have set realistic goals.  If you set a goal to work out 7 days a week as your fitness resolution and you previously weren’t working out at all.  Then you set an unrealistic goal.  Start a little smaller and tell yourself exactly what you can commit to with no excuses.  I like to have my clients pick 3 or 4 days to start off.

Setting a fitness resolution is a great idea.  However, I prefer to call them goals. You need to follow through on these goals forever.  Your health is always something that should be kept a priority.