Borrowing Commitment to Workout: A Guide to Accountability

This week, I would like to share the approach of using other people's commitment to utilize as your own when you yourself can't quite find it in yourself the motivation to follow through on an exercise session as often as you would like to.
Sometimes our own motivation lets us down and we fail to follow through on our fitness plan, but there is a way to leverage the motivation of other people to stay engaged much, much more consistently.
You might know it as accountability.
I'm sure you have heard and read about accountability before and how it can serve as a good source of motivation, but if you have not initiated what it takes to set up an accountability system, it might be because you are unsure what kind accountability would be best suited or you are concerned that having to commit to someone else will act as a source of pressure and will turn you off of working out entirely.
There are a multitude of accountability systems, each with structures that meets different needs, yield different results and provide a different experience.
Accountability can be very a effective tool to have, you just need to know which type of system is right for you.
Here is a list of 4 styles of accountability systems: