When we talk about how we look or out fitness levels, many of us are quick to come up with excuses why we aren’t at our best. The fact is, excuses are always there. You can choose to use them, abuse them, or cast them aside and get serious about your fitness training.

Ultimately, the question is: how bad do you want it?

It’s easy to come up with a million reasons not to work out today. I have a lot of work on my plate. My workout clothes are dirty. There isn’t enough time. I have to clean the house. My head hurts. When we make excuses like these what we really saying is we value those things above our fitness training. It’s okay to value certain things more than your workout.

For instance, you can’t (or shouldn’t) skip work on a regular basis to get a workout in and you really shouldn’t put your back and legs day above your child’s holiday program at school. However, letting the dishes be dirty in the sink for an extra hour is really okay. And so is working out with a slight headache.

Many people who have a hard time reaching their fitness training goals are experts at excuses. They got a claim to every excuse in the book and add their own to the book when it’s appropriate. The people who successfully maintain a physically fit body are those who make fitness training their priority and often use it as an excuse to miss out on less important things.

When you truly value your fitness training, you will find your self using it as an excuse for those things you once used to keep you away from it. I can’t do the dishes, I have to workout. I don’t have time for that television show, I haven’t got my workout in for the day. You get the point.

There really isn’t anything holding you back from your fitness training goals but your own self imposed limitations. When you really decide to get the body you’ve always wanted, there is no excuse for slacking.

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