New Year's Fitness Resolutions and How to Achieve Them

13 December 2023  |  Lauren

It's around that time of year when a lot of us are thinking about self-improvement, and our goals for the year to come. For a lot of us, New Year's resolutions will centre around our health, with popular objectives including improving fitness levels and stamina, losing weight, and building up strength in various parts of the body. Most of these goals are super easy to get started with, but carrying out these goals into the long-term is notoriously difficult.

If you want to get fit, and work on your physical health in 2024, we've put together a handy guide to New Year's Fitness Resolutions and How to Achieve Them, with plenty of recommendations of tools and supports to get you started with your goals, and keep you on track throughout the year. The fitness goals that we're highlighting include:


Make Exercise A Habit

How To Exercise Every Day At Home

The best way to make exercise a regular habit is to create a routine that you can complete anywhere, including the comfort of your own home. With a soft mat for support during your workout routine, particularly when stretching and cooling down, you can make exercising at home a comfortable experience.

Our Choice: Escape Fitness Black Foam Yoga Mat

Escape Fitness Black Foam Yoga MatKey Features and Benefits

★ Ideal choice for beginners thanks to dotted line for guidance
★ Eyelets enable the mat to be hung for ease-of-storage
★ Features a wipe-clean surface layer for optimal hygiene

How This Can Help With Your New Year's Resolution: Improving comfort when undertaking a range of basic exercises, such as squatting or lunges, can make you feel better about regularly doing them. Using this easy-to-clean, compact-foam mat is a great way to achieve this.

Ideal For

Yoga
Bodyweight exercises

All Home Fitness

Find Motivation To Go To The Gym

Going to the gym isn't the difficult part, it's sticking it out after those first few sessions that can be a challenge. The gym can be a sweaty and uncomfortable place, and when you're new working out amongst all the experienced gym-goers can be daunting. With the right kit, you can increase both your comfort and your confidence to help you to stay motivated.

Our Choice: Enertor Energy Baselayers Unisex Top

Enertor Energy Baselayers Unisex TopKey Features and Benefits

★ Unisex top ideal for use during a range of workouts
★ Nilit Innergy yarn converts energy to enhance performance
★ Ventilated and moisture-wicking design ensures comfort

How Can This Help With Your New Year's Resolution: Feel more confident stepping into the gym with a sleek black t-shirt designed to enhance comfort and performance. Getting kitted out in the right gear could be the motivation you need to get started.

Ideal For

✔ Sweat control & enhanced comfort
✔ Enhancing athletic performance

All Gym Wear


Build Your Strength

You don't need an expensive gym membership or personal trainer to start building up strength in various parts of your body, you just need to do the right sort of exercises. There are plenty of workouts that can help to build strength and muscle, and with the right tools you can significantly enhance your gains.

Our Choice: Fitness-Mad Universal Training Pull Up Bar

Fitness-Mad Universal Training Pull-Up BarKey Features and Benefits

★ Bar for use during a select range of exercises
★ Can be attached to a door frame or used for floor exercises
★ Lightweight and compact design for ease-of-portability

How This Can Help With Your New Year's Resolutions: This training bar is designed for use wherever you feel comfortable. It's a versatile piece of equipment that can help with building strength up the core and upper body, which can be used as part of your regular workout routine.

Ideal For

✔ Push-ups and sit-ups
✔ Pull-ups, chin-ups and suspended crunches

All Strength Building


Achieve Weight Loss

Weight loss is a popular New Year's resolution, but when tackling this goal it's important to be as safe as possible. Forget crash diets and intense workouts that you struggle to keep up with; to help with weight loss cardio is a great form of exercise to get started with on a weight-loss journey, and there are plenty of fun ways to get into it.

Our Choice: Escape Fitness Cross Training Jump Rope

Escape Fitness Cross Training Jump Rope

Key Features and Benefits

★ Ultra-lightweight design for speed and performance
★ Stress tested to 50,000 rotations to ensure durability
★ Ideal for movements like a double-under 

How This Can Help With Your New Year's Resolution: Jump-ropes are much more fun than regular cardio exercises, e.g., running, making it an easier workout to stick with, while still being incredibly effective in burning calories and improving overall fitness.

Ideal For

✔ Cardio workouts
✔ CrossFit workouts

All Weight Loss


Build Your Endurance

Your endurance and stamina will gradually improve the more you work out, but there are some other methods to help build them up as you go. A great way to help strengthen your athletic endurance is to find effective ways of preventing serious discomfort during your workout, or aches that cause you to stop your routine early.

Our Choice: Superfeet Green Performance Insoles

Superfeet Green Performance InsolesKey Features and Benefits

★ Patented heel-cup design cushions and absorbs shock
★ Supports proper alignment of the body
★ Antimicrobial treated top cover for hygienic design

How This Can Help With Your New Year's Resolution: These fantastic insoles are designed to help minimise aches and fatigue when partaking in a range of athletic activities, helping you to stay comfortable during your workout so that you can keep going for longer.

Ideal For

General athletics 
High-impact sports

All Endurance


Improve Your Existing Exercise Routine

Stay Supported During Your Workout

If you already regularly exercise, but you feel like there's something missing, perhaps your New Year's resolution is to build better workout habits, or a more effective exercise routine. The easiest way to achieve this is to find supports that can enhance your pre-existing routine before deciding to make any drastic changes to how you exercise.

Our Choice: Rocktape Kinesiology Tape Plan Colour Rolls (5cm x 5m)

Rocktape Kinesiology Tape Plan Colour Rolls (5cm x 5m)Key Features and Benefits

★ Ideal for relieving aches and pains
★ Can be used during workouts to reduce aches and muscle fatigue
★ Available in a range of different shades

How This Can Help With Your New Year's Resolution: This tape helps to delay the development of or speed up recovery from muscle fatigue and aches, making it easier to work out for longer, or exercise again following an injury or intense workout.

Ideal For

Managing sports injuries
Preventing or reducing muscle fatigue

All Tapes

Find Post-Workout Support

One of the most difficult parts of beginning to exercise regularly is the aches and fatigue that follow your workout, especially at first. The discomfort can be off-putting, no matter how temporary or mild. Thankfully, there are a range of handy tools available to make your post-workout experience a much more comfortable one.

Our Choice: Beurer MG10 Vibrating Massage Ball

Beurer MG10 Vibrating Massage BallKey Features and Benefits

★ Relieving post-workout muscle pain and tension
★ Compact design can be used while standing, lying down, or sitting
★ Features two vibration intensity levels

How This Can Help With Your New Year's Resolution: With this handy massager you can relieve any tension and discomfort with ease, making the post-workout experience a much more pleasant one. When less fatigued, the thought of doing another workout becomes less daunting.

Ideal For

Activating and regenerating muscles (pre- / post-workout)
Relieving tension for increased comfort

All Massagers


For those who are aiming to work on their health and fitness levels in the new year, there are plenty of tools and accessories designed to get you started on your journey, and keep you on the right track. With accessories designed to enhance your pre-workout, mid-workout, and post-workout experiences, Think Sport are sure to have just what you need to get fit in 2024.

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