New Year Resolutions Could ‘Do More Harm Than Good’

Published on December 31, 2023

Australians vowing to transform from couch potato to elite athlete in 2024 have been warned to keep their fitness goals achievable or risk disappointment. Health and fitness ambitions are popular new year resolutions but are notoriously tough to stick to. Surveying by health and nutrition app MyFitnessPal found roughly three quarters of Australians set new year resolutions but only one in 10 stick to them until December. Flinders University associate professor Ivanka Prichard said it was important to set smaller goals, such as running a couple of times a week, to obtain an all-important sense of achievement early on. The head of the Embrace Impact Hub at the university told AAP  smaller goals could be used to build up to bigger overarching targets, such as a specific running race or hiking trail....

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