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Found yourself in a workout slump recently? There are so many reasons why you might feel like your training and nutrition has been put on the backburner — ahem, the whole lockdown thing — but we’re here to help you pick things up and re-establish good habits.
In this video, Amelia Goldsmith shares her favourite techniques for how to stay motivated — breaking it down into 7 easy-to-follow tips.
Leave the excuses behind and try to set yourself small, achievable goals to get back on track.
Got some tips of your own? Leave them in the comments below!
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hi guys and welcome back to another
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video today
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i will be sharing my tips and tricks on
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how to stay motivated
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whether it's how to stay motivated when
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working out or
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being healthy or just having that
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overall fitness lifestyle
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motivation is a very funny one so make
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sure you follow these tips
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to help you stay motivated and to help
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you stay on track
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so number one make it a routine when it
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comes to motivation for me
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i feel like as soon as i found a routine
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in my
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days it became a whole lot easier part
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of my morning routine is to work out in
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the morning
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i literally get up i stretch and put my
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gym wear on
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and i head straight down to do a workout
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there's no time for me to
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talk myself out of it i'll just get my
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workout gear on and
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work out and as soon as you make it a
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routine
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it will become so much easier for you to
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stick to it and to smash out your
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healthy food choices and it becomes part
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of your life it's a it's a healthy
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lifestyle we're talking about
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it takes about six weeks to form a habit
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so if you
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continue to stick at that routine for
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six weeks it will just become so much
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easier for you
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just condition yourself to dedicate 30
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to 60 minutes of your day
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to work out and there's your motivation
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number two
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so do workouts that you enjoy it is so
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hard
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to stay motivated when you're doing
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things that you don't really enjoy or
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you feel like
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it's kind of a chore don't feel like you
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need to weight train because some people
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are weight training don't feel like you
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need to a bit of cardio because you
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follow someone instagram who's doing
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cardio
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just do something that you enjoy and
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that you really
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you don't feel like you need to push
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yourself to do then you'll stop seeing
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it as a chore you'll stop seeing it as
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something that you need to
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find motivation to do so for me weight
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training is just something i really
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really enjoy but i also really love to
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do
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pilates and yoga so sometimes on days
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where i'm lacking motivation where i
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just can't really bother to lift weight
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then i will just do some yoga or pilates
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or go on a walk i'm still keeping active
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and that's how i stay motivated
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because i'm working out and i'm enjoying
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it just doesn't feel like a chore for me
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that is an important one i think number
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three get some new workout gear for some
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reason this helps
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so much for me when you get some new
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workout gear you just want to wear it
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don't you when you're putting a new
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workout gear on you're going to work out
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and you're going to feel great when
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you're working out and you're going to
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feel on top of the world
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and that's just going to push you to do
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that workout on a day where you just
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don't feel like you want to so for
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example
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this my protein sports bra i am obsessed
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with
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i put it on today and i literally
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smashed my workout because i felt good
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in it
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my protein have got so many nice new
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bits online
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so definitely check that out so yeah
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just get some new workout gear and you
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will feel
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fire number four schedule it schedule in
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your
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gym session schedule it like you're
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scheduling another meeting
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and go to that gym session like you will
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go to an another meeting it's meeting
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with yourself
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you wouldn't miss a meeting so why would
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you miss a gym workout so definitely
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schedule it into your day
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it makes it so much easier for you to go
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about your day
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and just to find time in your day as
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well because a lot of the time
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when people lack motivation they feel
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like they don't have the time to do it
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so they're kind of just talking
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themselves out of it but once you
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schedule it into your day
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there are no excuses they really aren't
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not even if you're tired because
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you have scheduled that in ahead of time
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so you're gonna have to make it this is
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my actual uni planner
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so let me just find a page where i put
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in as you can see here
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we've got gym all scheduled there
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so as soon as you schedule into your day
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then you can't miss it
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i knew that i had to go and i just
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didn't question it
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number five write down your goals and
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keep looking at them
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when you're lacking motivation just go
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back and reread your goals
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go over why you wrote them what your
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motives were behind them
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where you want to be and where you are
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now and that should just push you a
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little bit further to work out or to
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give you that motivation that you need
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goal setting is an extremely powerful
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tool
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but make sure that they are realistic
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goals humans have the tendency to set
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unrealistic goals
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with unrealistic time frames and that's
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where people kind of trip up humans also
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make unrealistic expectations and there
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are different reasons as to why people
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make these i'm going to see expectations
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so usually it's because they
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underestimate how quickly
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they can do something how easy they can
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do something
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how much they can do of something and
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all of these factors
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should be taken into account when you're
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setting goals try be realistic with them
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try and kind of overestimate how long
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they're going to take how easy it's
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going to be
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and then you won't feel disheartened
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when you're not seeing progress very
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quickly
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also the way to successfully make goals
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is to increment
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little goals within your big goals so
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one goal of mine
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is to lift a certain amount of weight in
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a hip thrust and the way i'll go about
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that is to increment little goals
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in each gym session to try and reach
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that overall goal it will be
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to try and lift 2.5 kg extra
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in that gym session and then once i
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reach that i would accomplish that
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and then in my next gym session i'll
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then go into my next goal which will be
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to increase the weight further
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and slowly over time i will be getting
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closer and closer to my overall goal
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which is to hip thrust a certain amount
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of weight and once you achieve that goal
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you feel so accomplished that
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accomplishment that kind of
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feeling of proudness and then motivate
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you to go further
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so setting goals is a really really good
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useful tool
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because you just get that satisfaction
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from reaching that goal which will make
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you want to
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push yourself to go to the next goal and
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that is motivation in itself i think
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this is number six
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so keep yourself accountable and that
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could be working out with your friends
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or having a coach or even making a
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fitness
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instagram or fitness social media page
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as soon as you
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share your your goals or you share what
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you want to achieve
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with other people then it kind of makes
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you have to stick to it
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because you've told people what you want
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to achieve where you want to go
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and if you're just holding yourself
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accountable for them as soon as i made a
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fitness page
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i originally made it very private i
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didn't have many followers didn't want
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any followers i just wanted to post
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my progress on there to keep myself
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accountable and to
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to push myself and but as soon as i got
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more followers it just made it a whole
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lot easier for me as well because
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i knew that people were following me for
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inspiration
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and that pushed me to to work out harder
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and to work out better and to
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to share useful information and useful
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tips and that's what motivated me to
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work out
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but also following the good fitness
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accounts on instagram have really really
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helped me to stay motivated so that
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could be another tip for you
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and i think the last one is just
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remember how it makes you feel
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working out gives so many endorphins i
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don't think there's anything like it
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when i work out and when i finish my
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workout i feel
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so good within myself and i just feel
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energized
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i don't feel lethargic anymore i just
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feel on top of the world
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and i think that again is motivation
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itself when i'm lacking motivation i'll
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always just remember
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how it makes me feel after and i know
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for a fact let's say if i'm hungover
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say if i'm jet lagged say if i'm just
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tired or i just really can't be bothered
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i know that working out will make me
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feel ten times better than how i felt
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before
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and that's why i work out and that's why
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i stay active that's why i stick at it
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because
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of how it makes me feel it sounds so
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cliche but i work out because it makes
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me feel good like i do have
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aesthetic goals obviously anyone can
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but that's not the driving force behind
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why i work out that's not what i'm
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driving force behind why i stay healthy
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and active
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the real real reason is because it makes
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me feel amazing
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it's so good for mental health it's so
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good for longevity
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it's just amazing like that is my
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motivation and nothing will motivate you
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as much as the feeling
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you get after a workout so that is all
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of my tips on how to stay motivated
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we're all in a very
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funny situation at the moment whether
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you're working out at home still
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or you're going back into the gym now
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that the gyms are open just
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remember these little tips that i've
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given you on how to stay motivated
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hopefully they'll work for you as well
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because
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they work for me i've now got to the
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point where i don't rely on motivation
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at all to work out because of all these
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things so that's all from me
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i'm amina goldsmith and thank you for
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watching
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