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Secrets to keeping fitness goals

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    At the beginning of any year, getting fit is a goal for many. But, people have trouble sticking with that resolution time and time again. Anna Kooim...

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For so many New Year's resolutions to get fit and in failure I talk to some real experts at equinox gym at Rockefeller Center.

To find out how you can start a New Year's fitness regiment and stick with that.

-- Cooper Smith senior manager at the equinox fitness training institute has seen her share of New Year's resolutions to get healthy.

As the biggest problem is biting off more than you can Q.

-- advice to that is -- is to keep it short and simple if people conflicting twenty minutes three times a week that would confuse.

Monday Wednesday Friday looks like twenty minutes find even if you broke those up into the -- 10 minute intervals morning and night.

-- says the most common excuse people had to -- exercising is not being able to find that time.

She showed me some easy -- exercises you can do it home right in front of the TV.

So the first -- gonna do is called -- gluten rich.

And you're gonna mind your back these -- feet flat on the floor and then you just lifting your -- up and squeezing and coming down.

You're keeping your course strong and the idea this is too.

Straight in the butt and actually break up those muscles because guess what we -- -- with our but we sit on it all day long and those muscles actually go to sleep.

Is starting your back your legs are up you're gonna hold one legs still and you're gonna slowly lower the other leg.

But you're only gonna come down with -- -- as far as you can without arching your back -- back starts to -- even if it's right here you come right back up.

Goes low which -- can.

And then come back up now it might be hard to get a hold this leg where it is so you can put it chair or bench just behind this led to give you some support.

You can rest your foot right here on the opposite me now get as close as you can it may be -- your legs -- -- and slowly try to bring the -- in its -- Japan.

And you're just gonna get to a place we feel a little tension but it's not pain and you're gonna hold and you're -- breathe into that.

And try to just really -- -- you feel it released getting healthy also means changing your diet Sherlund says it doesn't have to be extreme or complicated.

Eating lean and green is always a good strategy.

If it's close to nature if it's green in color.

And lean proteins those two things as much as you can select the most important thing to remember if you want to get it this year they need to make the commitment.

That's the most important thing just -- -- in employment Fox News.