Find a Comfortable Fitness Level
You don’t need to keep intensifying your program once you have met your fitness goals. Research shows that you can maintain fitness with less activity than it took to become fit. In fact, continuously increasing your workout time raises your risk of hurting yourself.
Keep a Support Network
You can benefit from staying in touch with other exercisers. You may be inspired by what you see others accomplish. Or you may enjoy mentoring a spouse, child or friend.
Make Exercise Convenient
If you can walk briskly half an hour to get to work, you don’t have to make time during the day for an aerobic workout. Think twice before joining a health club that is miles out of your way. If your program is centred on outdoor activities, have indoor alternatives for days when the weather is bad.
Accept Temporary Setbacks
Then pick up your regimen again as soon as you can. An illness, an injury or a personal crisis will inevitably interrupt your exercise program. If you miss a few days of exercise, you can probably start again at the level where you left off. With a break of a week or more, you should re-evaluate your fitness and work back to your former level very slowly.
Reward Yourself
Getting fit and staying fit are achievements. Treat yourself periodically to a special evening out, new clothes or a trip.
Build Up Your Activity Slowly
Running a mile or taking a two-hour aerobic class on your first day won’t improve your fitness. If such excesses don’t injure you, they will make you tired, sore and likely to drop out. Start out slowly and add more activities and higher intensity a little bit at a time.