Making a lifestyle change in eating habits, along with an exercise program at the franchise gym the Zoo Health Club, is a commitment to be made with a strong mindset. It shows that you are now ready for a change in the way you look and feel. Finding the right health club such as the Zoo Health Club coupled with a program and motivating trainers to fit your lifestyle are key elements for getting started and continued long term benefits. A successful program must start with affordable memberships that can be found at the Zoo Health Club and the next must is for your program to be designed according to fit your schedule, and the goals that you are wanting to achieve.
You can find educated personal trainers at the Zoo Gym which can help educate you on how food and exercise work together, with your body, to get the results you desire and maintaining those results for a lifetime can help you chose a program that suits you best. Creating a timeline for your goals is the first part that the Zoo Gym trainers discuss with you so that you are able to reach with an ultimate date and finale event (like having a professional picture made) can help keep you on track. This will help you focus on your goal without making excuses or deviating from your commitment.
Another key element that the trainers at the Zoo Health club implement is taking a before and after picture. Knowing you will have your picture professionally made on a specific date (that cannot or should not be changed) makes a huge impact on the daily choices you make. Once you have made these choices for several weeks/months, they simply become a habit! It will make you wonder how you ever functioned before.
Below are just a few ideas to help you become successful:
- Place health and fitness as one of your top priorities and the Zoo Gym can help you accomplish this.
- Set your ultimate goal and a reasonable timetable to accomplish that goal. Then break your goal down into smaller goals in smaller timetable. Let a trainer from the Zoo Health Club help track your progress. If you take care of the smaller goals, the bigger goal will be accomplished.
- Create visuals and place them in areas that you will see them often. It can be a picture of yourself at a previous peak fitness level or of someone that is where you want to be. It could be special places you want to travel to once you reach your goals. It could be a new dress or pair of pants that you want to fit into again.
- Your Zoo Gym trainer will continually educate yourself on nutrition and exercise. Read books, magazines, use the internet to keep your mind motivated and focused on your goal. Try cooking new healthy meals to replace the unhealthy ones. Use moderation, not elimination in the food choices you make.
- Nutritionists and the Zoo Health Club personal trainers are helpful for being able to understand food labels and what is lacking in your eating habits. They can help you with portion size and caloric intake. One particular trick is to eat off of smaller plates so that it forces you to eat smaller portions.
- Make a list of the top priorities in your life that will require you to stay healthy. You need to do many things in life, but you won’t be able to do any of these things if you don’t take care of yourself first. The Zoo Gym can offer you affordable memberships so that you can begin your health lifestyle quest.
- Be patient. You did not get to where you are right now overnight or in one week. It will take more than a week to get where you want to be.
- Working out with others at the Zoo Gym that are trying to accomplish the same goals is a plus as well.
- Take a Yoga Class at the Zoo Health Club. Meditation for balancing yourself mentally. Maintaining a healthy weight is a lot of emotional and mental work and meditation is extremely helpful in promoting a balanced and serene mind. It helps you to focus and keep your stress down which is key if you tend to eat in times of stress.
- Keeping a food journal helps you to understand what is missing in your diet and really helps you to determine where improvements need to be made.
- Surround yourself with positive people who encourage and cheer you on. You may want to consider working out with a buddy and setting goals with one of our members at the Zoo Health Club.
- Be creative and find fun active things to do. If you love to workout in a group setting take an aerobic class at the Zoo Health club. The go out and Walk. If there is You can mix it up. You don’t have to stick with one thing. Just be active!
