subject: The Hardest Part of Your Workout [print this page] The Hardest Part of Your Workout The Hardest Part of Your Workout
If you are serious about getting in shape, if you want to lose weight, improve your health and really take control of your life, than you have no doubt considered the importance of joining a gym or beginning an at-home workout program. However, despite everybody's initial fervor, many people quit less than a month out. They hit a problem, the hardest part of the workout, and they quit. Why is that? And what is that part of the workout that defeats so many? In today's article we're going to take a look at the aspect of working out that breaks so many people and help you prepare for your own greatest challenge.
The hardest part of any workout is week three. That's it, that's the whole truth, nothing more to say. The reasons are simple, powerful, and totally crushing. Here's why: people begin their workouts with a fevered desire to get in shape. Something triggers this, whether it's a moment of ridicule, not fitting into their jeans, or a warning from a doctor. Suddenly it's all or nothing, and they want to go extreme and lose all that weight right away.
So they begin their workout and throw themselves into it. They pay a lot of money for equipment, gym membership, new clothing, new shoes. They go extremely radical with their diet, they cut out everything except the very healthiest of food, and get started. The first week is all radical novelty, all exciting challenge and beginnings. The second week is soreness and slogging, it's losing enthusiasm, it's realizing that this is all really hard work. And that's why the third week spells the end.
People think that getting fit is a sprint, not a marathon. They think that they can get in shape in a few weeks, change their bodies altogether in a blink of an eye. Which means that when they don't get the results they expected straight away, when they realize just how much work it's going to take, when they see how hard they're going to have to work, they quit. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why week 3 is the hardest part of any workout.
