Since 1995, Clinton Gahwiler has run the psychology practice of the Sports Science Institute of South Africa (SSISA) in Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa. His main interests lie in the related fields of sport and health psychology. Clinton’s passion is helping clients to develop, implement and maintain strategies which optimize performance and well-being on a sustainable basis.

Adherence is the holy grail of lifestyle change - how to actually maintain the new exercise routine or eating plan over the longer-term? Many of the answers in fact lie right at the beginning of the journey. To be able to maintain the change, you need to be properly ready to implement that change in the first place. But what is it to be ready? And how ready do you need to be to not only make the change, but to also make it stick?