Learning from Exercise Relapse

Viewing relapse as a learning experience can enhance the effectiveness of exercise program design, and help clients overcome a sense of failure and return anew to the fitness center.

MOST FITNESS PROFESSIONALS have watched in frustration as clients struggle to turn over a new leaf, only to slip back into their same old can't-make-time-for-exercise selves. Of course, this is not just a scenario we witness in January as fallout from overambitious New Year's resolutions. Exercising is a difficult behavior to maintain because it takes so much time and energy. Teaching ourselves and our clients to view relapse as a learning experience can enhance the effectiveness of exercise program design, and help clients overcome a sense of failure and return anew to the fitness center.

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