While exercise has been the number one New Year’s resolution for more than a decade, according to Time Magazine, it’s also the first to be broken.

As the New Year approaches, many people head to the gym to kickstart their resolutions.

We spoke with Quinn Hood, a personal trainer for Erie Fitness Now, who has been coaching for three years.

According to Forbes, a study shows that by the end of January, 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions will be abandoned. Hood gave us insight into why this specific New Year’s resolution commonly fails.

"It's a perfectionism issue," said Hood. "People want to be perfect. 'I need to get in the gym 5 to 6 days a week,' and as soon as they can't do that, as soon as life gets in the way, they're like, 'Well, I might as well just not do anything right.' If you can maintain that two days a week of strength training, getting your daily movement, putting those small minimum targets that you can hit every single week, we'll keep you in here and keep you going and you'll probably get great results."

Quinn suggests that people new to the gym should add light lifting to their workouts and not forget cardio.