Ten
Tips to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions, From Developer of
Number One Me™
Expert Lifestyle Architect David Berger
offers 10 ideas on how you can achieve your fitness resolutions
in the new year. "You CAN do it!"
WILMINGTON, DE, (PRWEB) December
21, 2006 -- Your intentions are good; you've made a resolution
to eat right, lose weight, and become more active. But how
do you turn those New Year's promises into action and results?
You CAN Do It! says Fitness Expert
and Lifestyle Architect David Berger, who developed the Number
One Me™ personal coaching fitness DVD (www.numberoneme.com).
David has helped hundreds of people exceed their fitness goals
and now, for the first time, he is offering ten tips from
his Number One Me program that will help you achieve your
New Year's Fitness Resolutions and much more.
• Get out of your chair
right now! Get up. Do something for yourself at this very
moment. Stretch out, take a walk, do some easy calisthenics.
(See the beginning exercise below.) Taking the road to the
Number One Me™ (www.numberone.com)
always starts with one step.
• Throw out your scale!
Focus on performance, health and well-being goals--not a number
on the scale. Focus each day on performing your exercises
(calisthenics, walking, jogging, etc.) and on what this performance
is leading to (feeling better, fitting in to clothing, buying
smaller clothes) and not a variable number on the scale.
• Eat less, more often!
Eat smaller meals throughout the day and set other nutritional
goals, such as eating more fiber and lower fat foods. Achieve
one of your goals each week. You are on a life journey; you
don't need to change everything at once. Pick one goal each
week, share it with those close to you and put a note of your
goal on your refrigerator.
• Believe you can do this!
Write down what you are thinking right now about the challenges
you will face in achieving your fitness goals. Are you already
making excuses? By becoming aware of negative thoughts, you
can change them into positive ideas.
• Keep it real! Movie stars,
models and pro athletes are not the norm. The average American
woman is 5'4" tall, and weighs 152 pounds; the average
man is 5'9" and weighs 180 pounds. Set realistic goals
and strive to reach your own personal best.
• Know what you want! Discover
what you really want and need to do to achieve your better
health results. Ask yourself the following questions: What
are you doing now in terns of your health and well-being and
what do you want to do? Make a plan to reach your goals. What
is the first step you must take? What are the obstacles? How
will you overcome the obstacles? Write these down in a personal
action plan.
• Dump the chips! It is
too difficult to make progress if you keep putting up self
imposed barriers. Removing all junky snack foods (sweets,
cookies, chips, etc.) from the house is one of the easiest
ways for you to stay on track.
• Hold yourself accountable!
Create an exercise and nutrition calendar. Track exactly what
you do and eat each day. Where you are today matters little;
what matters the most is the direction you are now moving.
This will also help to build your personal integrity (a key
value in any successful endeavor!)
• Always move forward!
Establish a progression of exercises. Never do the same exercise
all of the time. The same warm-up, the same exercises with
the same resistance, for the same repetitions, for the same
amount of time will lead to boredom and no progress! Consistent
efforts lead to consistent results!
• Take pride in every achievement!
As you move forward, take time to reward yourself for achieving
goals and reaching even small milestones (progress is made
each day!). Set specific rewards, such as going out to a movie,
but never reward yourself by stepping away from your exercise
or nutrition routine.
This year, put aside the excuses--achieve
your New Year's Fitness Resolutions and become your Number
One Me!
Beginner Exercise: Chair Stand
and Reach
(Please consult your physician prior to beginning this or
any other exercise program.)
Start: Seated in chair (preferably
a sturdy, high-backed kitchen/dining chair), feet approx.
shoulder width apart, head up with excellent posture-- with
your back against chair back, (keep eyes focused where wall
meets ceiling or up), with hands resting on top of your thighs
Action:
1) Inhale (through nose or mouth) then exhale (through mouth)
pushing hands on thighs and using your legs to bring you to
a stand in front of the chair--while also bringing your extended
arms to an overhead reach.
2) Inhale returning to start, pushing hips back and lowering
legs (keep spine neutral) until hips/butt touch chair (keep
eyes focused where wall meets ceiling). Repeat for 15 repetitions.
This is just one of the 45+ callisthenic
exercises available from David Berger on the NumberOneMe™
DVD, which you can order today at www.numberoneme.com.
About David Berger
At the age of 18, weighing over 250-pounds with a 40-inch
waist and smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, David Berger
struggled to climb a single flight of stairs. David's journey
to better health began when he quit smoking. He also decided
that he would immediately begin eating healthier and exercising,
climbing a single flight of stairs a day and adding another
flight each week. He also started performing calisthenic exercises.
Through his commitment to his consistent and progressive approach,
he lost over 88-pounds and 6-inches from his waist within
one year! David went on to earn a degree in Kinesiology from
West Chester University and launch Progressive Fitness Coaching
and now the Number One Me! personal coaching DVD.
About NumberOneMe™www.numberoneme.com
Increase your core, strength, balance, endurance and flexibility...Be
Fit for Life! David Berger's NUMBER ONE ME- Personal Coaching
for Personal Best! Learn to effectively use the single greatest
piece of exercise equipment ever created... your body! Over
45-calisthenics exercises instructed for you in three levels
of progression; Beginner Intermediate-Advanced. Exercise at
your convenience and in the comfort of your home with peak
performance coach David Berger. No More Excuses.
