Getting Fit: Are There Any Real Shortcuts?
February 3, 2010 by Lacey Stone
Filed under Featured, Fitness
As a fitness professional I get asked a lot of questions.
How can I get fit faster?
Why is it so much easier for her or him?
What’s the next hot thing? Am I missing something? Is there a trick?
I stand here to tell you there are no tricks and it isn’t easier for her or him. The “New Hot Thing” is made up so that people can make money, sell advertising and keep you feeling like you are not enough. But the truth is YOU are enough. You can do this… The squat, the push-up, and the jumping jack have been around forever because they work. You don’t need anything fancy to get a great body. All you need is a desire to do it, the poise to stick with it when it doesn’t happen immediately, and the confidence to believe it will happen.
There are no short cuts. You have to work for it and earn it. If a workout seems too easy , it probably is. If you’re looking to lose 10lbs and you’re not sweating up a storm or huffin and puffin it’s not going to happen. It isn’t easier for anyone! The only difference between people with great bodies and average bodies comes from within. They are willing to do whatever it takes- Wakeup at 5.30am in the morning? Fine. No carbs with dinner? Fine. NO EXCUSES baby, and if you think that’s easy you’re dead wrong. GREAT bodies take great effort.
Yes, it is hard, but do you want to know what the reward is? It’s being able to look into that mirror and be proud of yourself– not just you on the outside but proud of you on the inside. It takes courage and strength of character to be consistent everyday and trust your journey. Trust in yourself…to never give up and BRING IT. Bring it even when you’re tired, even when you don’t want to.
I find that a lot of times my motivation, my drive, my strength come from the same thing that at one point in my life made me feel my weakest. There are no shorts-cuts to greatness, it happens everyday on that bike, in the main studio, on that treadmill…when YOU go for it! Great bodies happen over time. YES time. Sometimes it takes years to get where you want to be, but then you can look back and say, “I did that, I did it!”
You know you can do it. Go for it! Show yourself how strong you really are.
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