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You’ve got yourself motivated and want to succeed. To assist in achieving your goals it could help you
to adopt some supportive techniques like assuming a positive
mindset, visualising your goals and maybe even writing down a chart, a plan or
a rotation.
How can visualisation help?
Your mind is a powerful tool, ask any professional golfer or tennis
champion and they’ll agree that part of being a big time winner is all about self-belief
and conquering the fear factor. So
visualise yourself at the gym, in the class or running the race. This could really help to make it a reality.
Verbalisation
If you talk about your targets to friends or at work it makes you accountable and therefore more likely to want to succeed. Also those around you will want to offer support and help to keep your motivation up. A little bit like how visualisation works verbalisation sends cues to your brain and your body responds to these triggers.
Write it down
Really, the physical act of writing down your goal could help you
succeed because until a goal is written down it’s just an idea or a
thought. Maybe it’s merely a wish in your mind that you'd like to one day get around to,
but once written down it develops into something more real and tangible.
If you are going to set yourself a rotation
you’d need it documented anyway. How
does a rotation work? It’s a way of
helping you to focus on how you want to develop your exercise technique. Some people enjoy weight training more while
others are happier concentrating on cardio, but the real answer is to cross
train effectively so that your physical self benefits from a well rounded
approach to overall fitness.
It really depends if you are training for something specific like a triathlon or your
first half marathon, in which case obviously all of the emphasis will be toward
increasing your endurance ability, however, if you are just working to keep
active and benefit from general fitness you could opt for a less specific approach. Say one or two resistance
sessions per week alternating with two or three cardio sessions, an active rest
day and a total rest day.
If you chart
it all down on your calendar it will help keep you focussed and mix it up to
keep it interesting and also to stop you deviating to the discipline that most easily slots into your comfort zone. When approaching the cardio, if for instance you usually run on a treadmill but find it boring after a while, try running outside
for a change or head to the pool for something completely different. Your muscles will also respond better if you keep them guessing and hitting them from different angles.
Would it surprise you to know that getting your mind around the equation
is as important a part of the fitness equation as bringing your body
along? To better help with all this and
to understand the power of your mind you might want to look at best-selling
fitness guru Tom Venuto’s book ‘The Body Fat Solution’. Once you read it you’ll understand more about
the psychological challenges of sticking to your programme. He’ll help you to understand about the importance
of mental dedication and this will ultimately help you achieve your
fitness goals. If you’d like to read more
from Tom check out his blog www.burnthefatblog.com
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