2 weeks into the New Year it feels like Christmas was a lifetime ago.

For many people who had great hope and expectation around their fitness coming into the new year it may also feel like that was a lifetime ago.

Often because they bit off far more than they could chew and are now becoming disheartened.

So for anyone feeling stuck or looking for the chance to kick forward with your training in 2026, here’s 9 tips you can/should start to plug into your routine.

1. Focus on 1 Behavior at a time: As the book “The One Thing” says: “Getting extraordinary results is all about creating a domino effect in your life.” You cannot create that domino effect if you’re biting off so much that you never start building any momentum.

2. Track something: Tracking has the double benefit of making sure that you’re progressing and motivating you at the same time. You’ve also got so many options for things to track (from your calorie intake to the time it takes to do a certain exercise to your blood pressure) that it shouldn’t take too much time or energy for you to start implementing.

3. Turn off Devices: Not only will reducing something like your phone exposure make you feel better, you’ll also be likely to move more. One study claimed that participants who spent 60 minutes less on their phone increased their step count by 841 daily.

4. Eat a portion of vegetables with every meal: Low hanging fruit (or vegetables) here. Extra veg means everything from improved vitamin and mineral intake to increased feelings of satiety to a boosted immune system.

5. Do some resistance training: Start with as few a workouts as you need to each week and build from there. There are countless benefits to resistance training and 3 of our favorites are:

– Increased bone density
– More lean tissue/muscle mass
– Improved body composition

6. Walk: Increasing your step count has more benefits than just an increased calorie burn. It can help improve everything from your heart health to your mood levels. Bonus points if you can get something steps in nature into your week.

7. Have a kitchen clear out: Simple on this one. If it’s in the house it will be eaten. Or as James Clear explains in Atomic Habits; “sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.”

8. Hydrate: Another tip that’s definitely low hanging fruit but comes with a load of benefits such as improved training performance, skin health and digestive health, regulated temperature and increased energy.

9. Go back to tip 1: Again it’s so tempting to say something like “I’ll pick 4/5 of the above habits and nail them immediately.” In our experience this doesn’t tend to work. Pick one, max 2 of the above, get to work on them, build momentum and watch how your fitness will improve throughout the year.

None of the above is dramatic, social media attention grabbing advice. But it’s highly effective.

Once it’s put into action…