Lifetime Home Fitness

In maintaining an effective home fitness program, there is a formula which has assisted me. The formula is called the Paradox Principle. The Paradox Principle has four areas which must be honestly addressed in the development of any home fitness program. Those four steps are Awareness; Vision; Strategy; and, Execution. Below find a brief overview about each step of the Paradox Principle:

1. Paradox Principle - Awareness: The main question to ask yourself is “Do I get it”? In other words, do I have a complete understanding of what is involved in maintaining a home fitness program? Do you fully understand that this must be a regularly scheduled activity? What home exercises best meet your health needs?  Be aware you will never totally “get it” so always keep learning.

2. Paradox Principle - Vision: Here your question should be “Can I see it”? Do you have a vision of what the end, or outcome, looks like with your home fitness program?

3. Paradox Principle - Strategy: “Do I know what to do?” is the question to ask in this home fitness step. Here a few of the questions you need to answer? Make sure you have your home fitness program written out for you to physically see.  Don’t leave it to your memory to recall all the details. More importantly, the success rate is statistically proven to increase when your home fitness program is in writing.

4. Paradox Principle - Execution: “Will I get it done”? Having completion dates for each of your strategies is essential. Too often strategies are written but no date of when it will be executed is stated. By not putting a completion date on any of your home exercises, you will find that many will never get completed because there is no “urgency” placed on it and improvement in your home fitness will suffer.

Obviously, there are many more questions within the Paradox Principle that must be addressed but that will be saved for another article. The main point now is to know if these four steps are followed your chances of having a successful home fitness program will increase dramatically.