I just need to lose twenty pounds, so I look good for my high school reunion. Everyone has been there, trying to lose weight for some event. The first thing most people do is get a membership at a fitness club, so they can exercise. The first week you go everyday after work, but then you decide you are going to reward yourself by skipping a day, because you have been doing so well. So the next week you go four out of the seven possible workout days. The third week you have started to gain some weight back, so you give up and decide that you just will not go to your high school reunion this year. Surely you will be able to lose twenty pounds in the five years before your next high school reunion.

How does this happen? You started out doing so well, and then everything came unraveled before your eyes. The answer to this question is lack of self-discipline. Self-discipline is the single most important thing you need to have a chance of sticking with your fitness plan. However, the average person's self-discipline is not strong enough to stick with a fitness plan. The problem with self-discipline is the only person that you can rely on to keep you on your fitness plan is you. Most of the time working out will make you tired, which makes it that much harder to solve the problem of self-discipline in fitness.

I believe the only way to solve the problem of self-discipline in fitness, is to workout with a partner. If you go to the fitness club with a partner, then you will not have to rely completely on yourself to keep you going. Your partner will help to motivate you and you will help to motivate them. Also your partner will help to push you to work harder, and make you the best that you can be. Your self-discipline might wane during your fitness routine, but your partner's own self-discipline will help you finish your workout together. Without going to the fitness club with a partner, I believe that solving the problem of self-discipline will be a losing battle, and you might never go to a high school reunion again.