5 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Fitness Goals, And What to Do About It

All human beings have amazing potential. Unfortunately, few of us ever realize that potential to its fullest. This can happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes there are simply factors which are out of our control. Other times, however, people sabotage themselves without knowing it, preventing their own progress toward achieving their fitness goals.

If any of the following five things are causing you to get in your own way, here's how you can stop yourself before it's too late.

1. Overreaching

As a personal trainer, I listen patiently as people tell me about their fitness goals every single day. They're going to lose 50 pounds, do a muscle-up, hit a triple bodyweight deadlift, or run a marathon. Those are all fantastic goals, and I don't doubt the sincerity of the people telling me they want to reach them.

Sometimes, however, it's the same person telling me that they expect to achieve all of those things…in the next six months. Usually they're explaining this to me on their...

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