Run for an hour. Do situps. Go swimming.
These are all things that I've been repeatedly told to do when I tell people around me that I want to become more fit and improve how I feel about my body. While these exercises might work for some people, I personally know that I would never be able to stick with any of those activities. This is mostly because I have the kind of personality where I tend to get bored of an activity very easily. This probably explains why I could never stick with a sport when I was younger. Ballet, gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, basketball, you name it. I could never stick with anything longer than a year; that is until I started taking tennis lessons during the 6th grade. I fell in love with the sport; how it never let me get bored and how there was always something new to perfect. I stuck with this sport for almost 3 years until my sister, Cassie, broke her thumb during a lesson. After that incident, my mother thought that the sport was too much for us to handle and didn't want either of us to get hurt again. So, that was the last time I was allowed to go to lessons.
I tried many different methods of exercising throughout high school. I went through a yoga phase then there was my stint with pilates. Neither of these lasted very long because the studios where I took classes at closed down after a short while. That leads us up to January 2015, when I made a goal to become a better, fitter, more confident person! I have discovered kickboxing, this is the only activity of which I've tried that keeps me interested and not bored in the least, I am drinking more water and this has massively cleared my skin up; the new workout clothes and shoes that I've picked up this month have also given me the kick in the rear that I've needed to get my butt into the gym to work with my trainer on my goal to become leaner, toner and better than ever before.
I hope this insight into my past struggles with sticking with a form of exercise has helped in some way in becoming a better, healthier you!
What are some of your favorite ways to get active? Do cute workout gear help motivate you to get into the gym?
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