What Does Fitness Mean To You

My name is Emily Wicklund and I am the Owner/Operator of C5 FIT in Pismo Beach, CA. C5 FIT is a personalized fitness facility which focuses on and emphasizes everyone’s individual fitness and health needs. We believe in the bigger picture: longevity. The fitness and nutrition programs we write for our clients are based on sustainability for that individual client’s lifestyle, goals, history, etc.

We all want to be fit. We all want to wake up each morning feeling good about ourselves. We all want to be comfortable wearing whatever clothes we’d like. We all want to love ourselves. The problem is the way our society currently handles happiness – that we cannot truly be happy or truly love ourselves until we finally look the way we think we should, or better yet, the way society thinks we should.

Here are all the things wrong with that statement:

1)    We are never simply there. We never “arrive”. We are always adapting, always learning, always evolving and therefore wanting different things in our lives. Better yet, our priorities change. Our health changes. We have to learn to love the journey. And more importantly, we have to learn to love ourselves each and every day for continuing our to pursue journey.

2)    Using words like “should”. Who says we “should” look a certain way? Who says we “should” want to deprive ourselves of certain joys in life to reach our goals? There is no “should”. We are who we are and we want what we want. The biggest question you have to ask yourself is “why do I want this?” No one will ever be able to motivate you towards a goal more than you can. Someone else thinking you “should” do something will never be enough to get you to do it. You have to know why you want to change your life, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, professionally, etc. If you don’t understand your why, you’ll never be able to commit, and commitment is key to longevity.

So, here’s your homework:

–       What are your goals? (home/family, work/career/school, mental/emotional health, physical health)

–       WHY are those your goals? Where did they come from? How did you decide to specify them?

–       Are those goals realistic and implementable for your current lifestyle/habits? If not, what needs to change?

–       Will achieving those goals make you happier than you are now?

–       What are you willing to give up to achieve those goals? 

As I said, there is no “should”. This is your life and you get to decide how to live it.

Thanks For Reading

Emily Wicklund