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How to Get Your Signifcant Other to Workout and Be Healthy with You
You work out regularly. But your husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend doesn’t.
What do you do?
Here are some strategies:
CALL IT A BONDING
Say “let’s go on a workout date.” This accomplishes 2 things: you get to spend time together, and you get to improve your body. Oh, and you also get to see your significant other grunting and sweating.
You also get to see a side of them never before seen through the help of exercising.
USE QUESTIONS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT’S HOLDING THEM BACK
As Dale Carnegie said in his book How to Win Friends and Influence People, if the idea comes from you, it will be rejected. If the idea comes from their mind, it will be accepted. So here is how you start that conversation:
Ask them “have you ever exercised before?”
If they say “no”, follow it up with “why not?” If they say “yes”, follow it up with “why don’t you exercise now?”
Of course, modify this to sound like yourself. Whether they answered yes or no, this usually boils down to a few different reasons:
- They think they don’t have time. As one of my…
