Setting realistic and measurable goals and giving yourself a little treat when you meet them can help power your fitness motivation through the darker months.
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Taking your physical activity outside comes with added benefits. Here are ways to pursue your fitness goals outdoors, even in the middle of a Canadian winter.
If you can’t lift heavy or it’s not your thing, please don’t think lifting lighter weights is a waste of time.
Over half of people who intend to make healthy lifestyle changes fail to do so. Understanding the automatic tendencies that prevent people from enacting a new health habit can help them stick to it.
You might feel you’ve failed after ‘only’ recording 9,000 steps when your goal was 10,000. In reality, 9,000 steps might be an achievement. Is it time to ditch specific goals in favour of open goals?
What research says about how to stick to your New Year’s resolutions
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Today, experts will be sharing with us insights into how to make a change in your life -- big or small -- using evidence from the world of academic research.
Exercise practitioners are taught to help us set goals to get active. But the way we set goals may be unhelpful, or worse, make it even harder for us to exercise.
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Southern Cross University
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Associate professor & Scientia Fellow, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Physical Activity, University of Sydney
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Professor of Physical Activity and Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Exercise Physiology. School of Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of The Fraser Valley
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Assistant professor in kinesiology, University of The Fraser Valley
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Professor, Health Psychology, University of Victoria
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Kinesiology, University of The Fraser Valley
