Quality matters, but consistency rules.
If you’re trying to develop healthy fitness habits, we encourage you to worry less about “how good” the workout is and focus on staying consistent. I recently read a blog that noted 3 Easy Ways to Stay Consistent, and it resonated big time—our goal is that FytFeed will help you do just that!
FytFeed wants to help you carry out these 3 tips for staying consistent with your fitness routine!
1) Start a Challenge
We suggest setting up small challenges, either daily or weekly. To build a routine, the challenge shouldn’t push you to your limits – the challenge is meant to set your intention on what your ideal day/week looks like in fitness and activity. This type of challenge is meant to help you end the day well-lived. You can set long-term challenges (big-picture goals) but be sure to follow that up with smaller challenges to help you develop daily habits. Small daily habits will add up over time in a sustainable way. These types of challenges will give you an encouraging sense of accomplishment, which will make the journey more enjoyable overall and make your habits more likely to stick.
2) Accountability
Sometimes, I set up challenges with myself (yes, I’m the only person in my challenge) BUT any journey is more effective, and more fun, with a friend as an accountability partner. If you struggle to stick with it, having a friend means someone else will be there to give you encouragement to keep going! No matter how hard we try to say we don’t care what other people think or that we don’t need external approval, we are social emotional beings, so having someone there to hold you accountable in positive and encouraging ways can make a huge difference! Not only will this help you stick to your goals but also let go of negative societal influences while focusing in on the positive momentum of your personal journey. This person will be there to feel a sense of pride with you when you hit your goals, which will make the journey more meaningful too.
We want FytFeed to be a place where you can find your accountability partners, create challenges with them, and post photos achieving your daily goals for each other to see (or achieve them together!). The strategy is to find people other than yourself to be accountable to.
3) 2 Day Rule
Life happens… Even with challenges and accountability friends, sometimes we just can’t make everything happen, and that’s okay. There are days I go to bed early because I know I’m going to wake up and make tomorrow better, but I always make tomorrow better.
Sometimes we don’t hit our goal or stick to our habits because we have a lot of amazing things going on. It’s okay to spend a day drinking margaritas on the beach (you should)! Whether for happy, sad, good, or bad reasons, give yourself grace and modify your challenges for the week you’re having, but make sure you don’t drop them completely.
When I’m extremely busy with other priorities, or when I’m just not feeling 100%, I set manageable challenges to ensure that I still maintain a modified routine. I find that a modified routine helps me get back into the swing of things faster.
Tools for Success
From personal experience, these three tips truly work, but it’s hard finding the tools to incorporate these tips into everyday life. For example, we don’t all have great journaling practices, and we can’t all afford personal training sessions, so our hope is that the FytFeed app will be a tool to genuinely help people make these tips an easy and integrated part of life. If you’re interested in getting involved, we’re currently running a private beta test! Please reach out here on Medium or sign up for our Newsletter! We’d love to extend a link to the beta app to anyone interested in becoming a part of the FytFam and helping us develop a truly positive and encouraging community from the very beginning of our startup journey!
References
- Richmond, A. “3 Easy Ways to Stay Consistent.” Medium, 2021.