Stick To Your Exercise Plan
If you want to lose weight, be fitter, eat more healthily
, take more exercise, live longer, be able to do more, then you need to know how to create a plan you will be able to stick to.
tell me, does any of this ring a bell?
You decide to get fitter.
You say your going to go to the gym 3 times a week.
You're definitely going to cycle to work 2 days a week
You absolutely will play tennis every weekend
Or something similar?
Now skip three months into the future and check what's actually going on?
The bikes tyres are going flat under a layer of dust in the garage, the tennis rackets lost somewhere in the attic and the only thing your losing to the gym is the monthly fees coming out of your bank account.
So why is it so hard to stick to an exercise routine or a diet?
Let me tell you about two of the key drivers in human behaviour.
1. Humans are goal seeking organisms. We are motivated by achieving results.
2. Humans are motivated by emotion.
So it's important to know why you want to exercise, what you want to get out of it, and how that will make you feel.
So the best thing is, don't decide on how you are going to achieve it, just decide on what you want the results to be. What are the results that you want to see in 6 months time?
If weight loss is your aim, specifically how much weight do you want to lose?
If you aim to ged rid of inches around your waist, how many inches will your new sized waist be?
If your targets are around getting your heart rate lower, either when you are at rest or during exercise, or maybe you want to get your blood pressure back into the healthy zone, whatever it is be really specific and detailed about what you want it to be.
Once you've got that, think about how you will feel when you have achieved it.
Will you feel happy? Proud? Relieved? Ecstatic? Delighted?
Now you've don that you have, not only, the results you want to achieve, but you also now how it is going to feel when you have succeeded.
The third secret to human behavior is, if you commit to something you are many times more likely to achieve it.
So how do you commit?
First, write it down. Write out what you are going to achieve, specifically, then write down how that will make you feel.
The act of writing it down is a from of commitment.
Second, tell other people. If you tell 10 people that you are going to lose a specific amount of weight in 6 months that's 10 people that will be watching to see you succeed or fail.
You will have made a commitment and will me much more likely to stick with your program if you do this.
Finally, consider setting some smaller goals for yourself.
If you've decided what you want to have achieved in 6 months, you may be feeling a bit overwhelmed by the scale of it.
So break it down.
Your first target is what you want to achieve in just the first month. Then do a second target for month two, one for month three, and so on.
So, if you wanted to lose 12 lbs in 6 months. Set a target of 2 lbs in the first month, 2 in the second and so on. Shedding a couple of pounds is a lot less daunting than getting rid of twelve pounds, isn't it?
Of course taking exercise is just half of the equation
by: Ralph Goldsmith
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