FITNESS AUTHOR
Meagan Germaine
BEAT THE BURNOUT n Local trainer Meagan Germaine shares the realities of long-term fitness and how to stay on track.
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ou’re always motivated. You work out nearly every day. You eat only healthy food. You count your macros. You weigh your portions. You measure your body fat. You lean out and bulk up. And always with 100% discipline and a progress-only mindset. Finally, it’s not always progress that we find. It’s forward, backward, up, down, circles and in between. We, too, will occasionally lose sight of our goals and have to take a few steps back — we are all human. The difference is, no matter how many steps we take back, fall down or experience instances where we lose sight of the goal — we keep going. You get back on that horse and keep riding all the way back to the barn. Have I wanted to ever give up? Yes. The good thing is there are so many ways to deal with the burnout and a pocket full of keys to unlock that motivation and consistency:
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