How to Develop Unstoppable Motivation to exercise
Author: motivationnews What if I could give you a few little secrets
that you could use to create motivation and put to use to reach
your exercise goals? Well if you're willing to supply just a
little bit of desire and a little bit of effort.
The key to your success is a simple five letter
word and that word is habit. This is our number one goal! Yes!
Our number one goal is to create the habit of exercise and our
improved exercise will be a by product of accomplishing this.
How are we going to do this? We are going to break this down as
far as necessary. And you will be the one who determines just
how far that is.Think of your favorite exercise. Is it walking?
Then it can be broken down to steps (or time spent) right? Is
it push ups? Then it can be broken down to repetitions.
Most people who fail at reaching their exercise
goals, fail because they lack motivation. And the reason they
lack motivation is because their holding the wrong picture in
their mind. You know the one that one long grueling workout
that seemed to last forever? If we're going to hold a picture in
our mind of an entire grueling workout, most of us are going to
be whipped before we start.
I begin by telling myself that I am going to do
one set of my favorite exercise (the bench press) and then
after giving myself two or three minutes to recover from that
set, I will then ask myself if I want to do more. Nine times out
of ten I do! And if I don't I can still feel good that I did
that set and strengthened the habit of exercise. Surely anyone
can do a single set of their favorite exercise and create the
habit of doing so. Make the goal creating the habit not the
workout!!! We can always increase the steps, the reps, the
number of sets, the exercises and the time spent anytime we want
to! And I encourage you to do so whenever you feel like it!
You've just included some exercise in your day.
Doesn't that feel good? You have taken the first step to
creating a habit a very good habit. And each time that you do
this you are strengthening that habit. Now, ask yourself if you
feel like you want to do more. If not stop. If so, repeat.
Many people get to the gym and turn around and
go home because they just don't feel up to working out that day.
But many of us have found that if we just submit to doing a set
or two of something, we begin to feel like doing more.
Denis Waitley is one of my favorite authors and
to paraphrase something I heard him say is that habits begin
like flimsy cobwebs at first and are strengthened day by day to
become like unbreakable cables to shackle or strengthen our
lives. What happens is once you get started, you will begin to
feel the endorphins rush and most of the time you will feel
like doing more. I kid you not! It's amazing! It works for me
virtually all the time. Try it!
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