Why exercise with your significant other

Many people exercise alone. A quick look around at the gym will verify this as you notice solo runners on the treadmill and muscly dudes moving across the free weight floor. The truth is a lot of us don’t consider bringing a friend to the gym. But why not? And why not bring one of the most important people in your life - your significant other? Exercising with your partner can be rewarding and offers some notable benefits.

How to set fitness goals!

If you've decided to change your lifestyle to lead a healthier life and to get fit, then firstly well done for making that mental decision to make a difference for the better. Your next stage is to strike while your motivation is high and get practical.

Make a commitment to a fit future!

If you don't believe in yourself then you're not going to set and achieve goals, and so you really are setting yourself up to fail and creating a self-perpetuating motion of defeat. Add in some age-old classic exercise excuses and you can easily avoid creating a healthy lifestyle now and also find detours on the road ahead.

Stop resolution excuses in their tracks!

Even if you didn't write a definitive list of healthy New Year resolutions for 2013 you no doubt have made some conscious as well as unconscious decisions to make some changes. Right? Are you forging ahead or has the year started off busy with all good intentions pushed to some 'I'll do it soon' category of your psyche? Before the month runs away with itself you might want to put the brakes on any excuses that are ruining your resolve.