Change for any reason involves a fundamental shift in behaviour. When it comes to health and fitness, it’s no different. Whether you want to become more active, change your eating habits, or generally adopt a healthier lifestyle, a shift away from your old habits and towards new healthy behaviour patterns are required.

While it can oftentimes be difficult to make lasting change in any context, when it comes to your health and fitness, it’s more than necessary; it’s imperative.

Not only can these healthy behaviour patterns reduce the risk of disease but they can boost mood, improve health, increase fitness, and ultimately result in an overall improved sense of well-being.

The good news? Once these habitual behaviours have developed into unconscious habits, it becomes 10x easier to maintain them. Gone will be the days of the old you, your old habits, and your past unhealthy behaviour patterns.

If you’re eager to change your lifestyle and improve your fitness and you’re looking to adopt new and improved healthy behaviour patterns, this article is for you! What follows will be a discussion surrounding some of the most important behaviour patterns to adopt around fitness. Let’s jump right into it!

The Most Important Healthy Behaviour Patterns

When it comes to improving upon your fitness capacity, several behaviours and habits are required in order to succeed long-term. Some of these habitual changes include eating habits, regular physical activity, better sleep, and elimination of negative habits such as smoking and drinking.

How to achieve these, however, isn’t as simple as deciding to do so. Instead, it requires deep-rooted behavioural change.

With that said, below are several important healthy behaviour patterns and thought processes to adopt when seeking to improve your fitness:

• Decide to Prioritize Your Health
• Set Realistic Goals
• Get Specific With Your Fitness Goals
• Be Accountable
• Tackle One Goal at a Time
• Seek Internal Motivation Rather than External Validation

Behavioural change is a science, however, it comes down to a few simple but fundamental decisions that will end up being the difference-maker between the old you and the new you.

Incorporating such behavioural change into your fitness regimen can take your success to new heights without the need to give any additional physical effort on your part. It’s up to you, however, to decide to do so.

Decide Today to Become a Healthier YOU

Whether you’re an elite athlete struggling to take your fitness to the next level or you’re a regular citizen eager to improve your general health, fundamental behaviour change is necessary.

Unlike traditional approaches to fitness (the no pain no gain mindset, for example), behavioural change doesn’t initially require any additional effort on your part. Instead, it requires one decision to be made, day after day, until it turns into a habit.

So, make that decision! Decide today to become a healthier, fitter YOU! Good luck