STOP GIVING ADVICE AND GIVE SUPPORT INSTEAD So here’s a list of ways as “fitness people” we can all help make sure that whomever you know who is getting started stays at it long term and gets to the state that you’re in: loving exercise and feeling a ton better. But we can all do our part to help keep as many around as possible. Then hopefully some of those people can inspire others to get started, and snowball effect takes place and boom, no more obesity. I want to have thousands of people NOT stop working out after six weeks and get healthier. And for some reason many of them stop after a few weeks. But something is going to drive them into a gym (besides marketing hype) very soon. Over half the population doesn’t exercise at all, and only about 10% regularly (meaning 3x a week and sustained for over six months) because it just isn’t on their radar and never has been. See – you’ve already swallowed the pill of fitness, but you are in the vast minority. With society the way it is and a massive obesity epidemic, we should all play our own part in not only helping these people get into fitness, but keeping them around as long as possible. The fact we even have a nickname for new exercisers says it all.

The first thing I need to mention is that in the fitness world there tends to be a lot of elitism, and I’ve already seen the “resolutionist” memes going around Facebook. I know this might be a bit early, but in three weeks it is 2016 and a whole new set of people will be undertaking new fitness goals.

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