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Here’s How You Can Make Fitness a Lasting Habit

The Doctor Weighs In
8 min readMay 19, 2020

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By: Trevor McDonald

Integrate fitness into your daily routine. If working out becomes a part of your schedule, you are more likely to make it a lasting habit.

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Although many of us vow to start exercising regularly, few of us actually do. And, even fewer go on to make fitness a lasting habit. Although becoming fit for life may seem like an intimidating goal, it is not impossible. After all, your Insta feed is filled with fitness models that are doing it. You wonder if they can do it, why can’t you? The truth is that you can and I am going to provide you with some tips to help you make fitness a lifelong habit.

I am not saying it will be easy. It will take hard work and some dedication to get over the inevitable slumps. Remember, lifelong fitness is a trial and error process. But if you stick with it, you will be rewarded.

Why is it that healthy fitness habits always start out with a bang before fading into oblivion?

We all begin with good intentions. We want to be fitter, healthier, and happier. So, we make grand plans to embark on a new, more intense, fitness program.

Much to our surprise, we begin to get everything we want. We are more energized, our exercise capacity…

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