Use the power of your fitness personality to create an exercise program you'll never quit!
In exercise as in everything else, personality matters.
- Discover your unique fitness personality
- Learn each personality's favorite activity
- Design a fitness program you will stick with
Discover your color
Barriers & Tips
“I can’t seem to make exercise part of my lifestyle.”
Visualize, plan ahead, and schedule. Frame exercise as important alone time. Try to choose a pleasing environment.
Barriers & Tips
“I get bored of routine exercise and need time alone.”
Investigate nature preserves, and nature paths. Create time to be outside alone. Find exercise in daily living like yardwork, use stairs.
Barriers & Tips
“I can’t find people to exercise with.”
Train for an event with others, choose fun exercise that can be done with others and keep music handy!
Barriers & Tips
“I worry that I will injure myself during exercise.”
Take steps to ensure safety and avoid injury, ckeck equipment, review techniques and routines with professionals.
Barriers & Tips
“I forget to schedule exercise in advance.”
Make a commitment to yourself, which is a prime motivator to exercise, schedule exercise as an appointment and put it on your list.
Barriers & Tips
“I am distracted and uncomfortable in unfamiliar environments.”
Familiarize yourself with the fitness facility or environment before you actually go for a workout.
Barriers & Tips
“Routine exercise bores me and I tend to stop going.”
Choose activities that allow you to focus on something else and get exercise along the way, engage your fun/playful side.
Barriers & Tips
“It's easy for me to get sidetracked by more interesting things.”
Keep transitions and practical requirements minimal, and restrict decision points to a few. For example, go to the gym in workout clothes to avoid wasted time in the locker room.
Presentation of The 8 Colors of Fitness
The 8 Colors News
Creating a Sustainable Fitness Program
Fitness consultant and best-selling author Suzanne Brue discusses how a sustainable program of exercise ultimately depends on its compatibility with your true nature.
Stacey Goldstein, Personal Trainer Interviewed by Suzanne Brue
The 8 Colors of Fitness™ Program is very widely used with personal trainers to help them get to know their clients better. I am very lucky to have a personal trainer who is extraordinary, she knows the 8 Colors very well, and uses it with her clients. Let's talk about Stacey Goldstein's experience with the 8 Colors.
Quick tips for coaching your clients to stay active during COVID
Watch Michelle Joy Kramer, Health Coach, talk with special guest Suzanne Brue of The 8 Colors of Fitness™.
The YMCA of Greater Charlotte and the Macaroni Kid chat
Watch a discussion between Sue Tissinger of YMCA Greater Charlotte and Rebecca Plaisance of the Macaroni kid South Charlotte, discuss how The 8 Colors of Fitness™ can be utilized this summer at the YMCA.
The YMCA of Central Florida talk about The 8 Colors of Fitness™
The YMCA of Central Florida, Orlando, talk about The 8 Colors of Fitness as a tool to help you discover your unique fitness personality and learn about fitness activities that best suit your style.
They say…
“The 8 Colors is real information on how to sustain physical activity.”
“The 8 Colors has changed my whole understanding of why I hate certain types of exercise and am attracted to others.”