With any exercise program you will eventually reach a plateau. This is a stage where you seem not to be making any progress towards your fitness goals. At this point it is easy to become disillusioned and lose motivation. If you find yourself on a plateau and in need of motivation try the following tips and see if they can help you.

Re-evaluate Your Goals
If you are not motivated it may be time to re-evaluate why you’re doing it in the first place. The goals that were once important to you may not be as important today. Set yourself new goals and new rewards. Ask yourself why you really want to do this and set a new goal to achieve it. Break it down into monthly, weekly and even daily goals. Breaking them down into smaller goals makes them less daunting and increases your success of achieving them and success feeds your motivation for more.

Hire an Accountability Manager
Don’t worry this is not going to cost you anything, apart from your pride if you fail. Sometimes our worst enemy is ourselves. We start with good intentions only to sabotage ourselves. If you find you keep doing this then, consider getting someone you will be accountable to. This could be a spouse, friend or training partner, anyone who will help to motivate you. Make a promise to them that you will do whatever it takes to make it happen. This can be highly effective as the fear and shame of letting someone down is a great motivator.

Take a Guilt Trip
This may work for some people and not for others. However, if you are the sort of person who hates wasting money then go to an expensive gym and sign up for a membership. The thought of wasting all your hard earned cash by not turning up at the gym to do your workout will become to unbearable.

Visualisation Techniques
These can be effective at helping you stay motivated. You use visualisation techniques to picture in your mind what you will be and feel like when you achieved your goal. This will involve re-enacting and sensing the feelings and emotions as if you already achieved your goal. This takes practice but can be highly effective. In addition to this you can create a dream board where you place pictures, illustrations and quotes that will help you visualise what you want to achieve. The dream board should be placed where you can see it everyday.