ORLANDO, Fla. — Making a New Year’s Resolution is easy, but sticking with it can come with challenges.

One of the most popular resolutions is getting into shape, which personal trainer Josh Jensen sees time and time again. 

“Sometimes it’s like people are embarrassed about having New Year’s resolutions, especially when it comes to fitness,” he said. “But I think, to me, it’s something we should embrace. It’s something we should get excited about because there’s never a wrong time to improve and to progress.”

Jensen owns FiT PRiNT in Orlando with his wife Kim Mencia Jensen. They offer personal training and group classes.

When it comes to keeping fitness resolutions, the Jensens find setting goals and taking things day by day leads to success. 

“When you’re able to specialize (the training) and make it unique towards the person, they feel more successful at whatever they’re doing, and from there, they can build on top of those roadblocks and slowly progress over time,” Mencia Jensen said.

When it comes to keeping any resolution, at the gym or otherwise, licensed mental health counselor Shantala Boss said the main thing is to frame a resolution as an intention instead — to look at it as lifestyle change, where you set short-term goals you can build upon over time and measure your progress.

“With kids, we have behavior charts and sticker rewards, but they’re people too, they’re little people, and as adults we need the same thing,” Boss said. “We need constant affirmation and knowing that we’re on the right track.”