Elite Exercise Enthusiasts

Are you a hardcore exercise enthusiast? Do you get up in the morning an hour early just at the thought of pumping some iron or running for an extra long time? Are you a gladiator at heart able to defeat any workout thrown at you? Have you been confused with a thorough bred racehorse because of your immense stamina and profound athletic capacity?

If you answered yes to the above your one of the few elite exercise enthusiasts of our time or any time perhaps. The reality as I see it and has been my experience is that most people struggle to get TO the gym let alone get through a workout. We set those new years resolutions to lose weight or say how nice it would be yet do little to actually take any action towards accomplishing that goal.

Here are 4 thoughts to keep you focused on achieving your fitness and health objectives.

You can and you will

The number one culprit for lapsed workouts, or really failure to continue with anything in life, is an underlying subconscious belief that your not good enough. That it has'nt worked in the past, why would it now so just give up and avoid the pain of failing again. If you can recognize this thought going on as you set a new goal and do it once, twice or even more then you will become more aware that it is from this belief that your emotions of pain or discontent are coming from and then the challenge becomes putting them aside as you follow through with your planned goal.

Consistency

It takes a minimum of 21 days to create a new habit. If you wish to be more healthy, fit, sexy, attractive, muscular, thin, or whatever your goal is then make sure to get up and do the workout no matter what. You may feel like not doing it however refer back to the above, is it because you actually, really, really, don't want to do it. Or is it because you feel it wont do any good? More than likely that feeling is telling you that you DO want to do it but your HABIT has been not to do so, so you mistakenly think that you don't want to do it.

Love what your doing

Donald Trump says this so often yet its so critical that I offer it here "Love what you do". Now he says that regarding jobs, careers, and business however its equally applicable to working out. If you don't love what your doing, find what you do love and do that. It will create intensity, focus and a measure of joy in the activity itself that you will go back for more simply because you enjoyed it.

Change it up

Our bodies do adapt to routines and the best way to constantly make the body improve is by altering a workout routine. Not to say you have to go from running today then the elliptical machines tomorrow. Simply add intervals, higher or lower intensity, bursts of speed, or power. Add more reps or fewer reps, maybe another set. Avoid getting on the treadmill choosing the same speed, distance and incline every day.