Motivation
Finding the Motivation
Motivation may be the largest key
to achieving and maintaining your fitness goals.
You can sit there and moan ' woe is
me' and use the ' bad day' excuse for not getting to
the gym and getting your training in (we've all done
it before); or you can suck it up and do what has to
be done.
Have you ever had one of those days?
Work, family, stress? Nothing seems to go right. The
last thing you've got the energy for is an intense training
session.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems
that as the years go by those hectic and eventually
low-energy days seem to come a bit more frequently than
they once did.
Well, the way I look at it none of
us has it easy every day.
And while you don't always have control
over what the day holds in store for you, you can control
how you deal with it.
I'm not saying that it's easy. Believe
me, I know that it isn't. In fact, I had one of those
days today. I won't bore you with the details. But you
know the feeling: absolutely nothing went right.
Well, maybe because of days like today
over the years I've learned a few little tricks to helm
and through a quality training session even when it
feels like the last thing I want to do. Here's a few
things you can try.
- Before you start to train, take a couple of quiet
minutes to clear your head. Sure you may be running
late, but slow down for a minute to put the day behind
you and focus on the task at hand.
After a tough day, I'll pull into the gym parking
lot, turn the radio off, open the window, and just
catch my breath for a minute or two. I won't think
about what I did earlier or what I have to do later.
I'll just relax. Remember what that's like?
- If you're truly pressed for time, don't be afraid
to cut back on your usual training program for the
day. Some of the best workouts I've ever had have
lasted just 20-30 minutes.
No one says you have to do 12 sets for chest and 8
sets for biceps every time you train. In fact, it's
foolish and counterproductive to train this way.
Even if you're not pressed for time, once in a while
you ought to workout with just 4 sets of 2 sets of
biceps. I mean you can do those 6 sets, throw in some
ab work, and still be out of the gym, and feeling
a lot better I might add, in less than half an hour.
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over the hump.
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