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There's merit behind the statement mind over matter when it comes to working out and tackling your fitness goals. 

Whether you struggle to get your mind in the right place to get started or struggle to keep going once you’re at it, sometimes the biggest barrier isn’t your physical ability or inability, but your mental one. 

That voice in your head that tells you that you can’t casts doubt on your stamina or tries to confirm that you are indeed running as slow as you keep saying you are. 

Take your workout into your own hands and tackle your mental training by overcoming these 5 barriers:

Tired of failed weight loss attempts and workout plans that just don’t work out? Maybe you have succumbed to some of the weight loss myths that promise success and fail to deliver. 

Start with de-bunking these three and get yourself back on track to reach your weight loss goals:

You may have noticed that your gym or yoga studio was hosting a 30-day challenge.  Or maybe you came across an image on Pinterest about doing a certain exercise routine for 30 days, or adopting certain dietary changes.  While most of them are health and fitness related and you may indeed start them for the purpose of weight loss, there are lots of other reasons to do a challenge, in addition to the scale.  Here are some ideas to get you inspired:

You wake up late.  Again.  You promised yourself last night (just like a lot of other nights), that tomorrow morning, you definitely would get up in time, you definitely wouldn’t hit snooze, and that you would 100% make it to the 6am spin class.  You even signed up online.  And yet, here you are, 7:15am, still lying in bed, loathing in your feelings of failure, only to have those thoughts clash with visions of everyone else who did make it to the class basking in their post-workout glory, already now getting on with their day and not having to worry about working out again for another 24 hours.  “Plus,” you think, “when am I now going to actually workout today?”  We’ve all been there: on the early morning workout struggle bus.  And if you know you’ve been there too long, here’s how to finally get off for good and make it out the door in time, every single day.

The latest fitness trend is trackers. You can track your steps, you can track the calories you burn, the amount of time you exercise, the distance you run, walk, elevation, temperature, humidity, just about every variable that could affect your fitness, you can track and account for on various tracking devices.  And when it comes to things like the recent Nike Breaking 2 project, every bit of the data is essential, and indeed may play an important role in helping you reach or not reach your goals.  

It's important to be aware however that all this monitoring and measuring can easily be taken a little too far, having a negative rather than positive impact on your lifestyle and goals. 

Here are 5 times you may be taking your tracker too far and how you can fix it: