Motivation Tips: A Different Take
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Motivation Tips: A Different Take
I went to the gym yesterday evening at the busiest time of the day and was shocked to see that most there were only a few others working out and they all had pretty low energy. What happened? Everyone started out so pumped up this January and already the motivation and energy has dropped dramatically!
Let’s get a wake up call and look at some different ways we can boost our motivation and keep it elevated through this fall so we know we feel our best even when we are faced with challenges every day. Sounds good doesn’t it?!
Motivation Tips #1: Talk About Your Goals
This is a pretty interesting technique because it makes you so accountable for your action…talk about your goals to everyone you know, even and especially when you’re at the gym. You’ll start to realize how supportive most people around you will be and having that support system in place is going to give you a major advantage in you reaching your goals.
Remember one thing…keep your goals realistic and focus on how you good you feel after you workout and eat healthy. This is GOLD. I find realistic results include things like: lose an inch in the waist area after 6 weeks, or gain 1/2 an inch muscle around the chest in 8 weeks.
Motivation Tips #2: Use Supplementation To Your Advantage
There is a lot of confusion about supplementation as in quite a few ways the media has given it a bad wrap simply because they first harp on the benefits of some products without doing the full background research to see how good they can be long-term.
I believe with anything we consume, supplementation can be used to your advantage as long as it is not your one and only crutch for results. The supplementation will only be effective if you also put in a good amount of effort, but if you find that more often your motivation starts out strong but then dips through the week then you may want to have some smart pre-workout supps like the top selling lemonade flavour USPLabs Jack3d or the grape freezie flavour of SuperPump 250.
If your stumbling block is cravings then you may want to try an appetite suppressant and metabolism booster OxyELITE Pro which has gotten a ton of great user reviews.
Motivation Tips #3: Compete with a Friend
If you have a friend that you can bring with you to the gym then set up a competition and make things fun. See who can gain the most muscle definition or lose the most fat in 8 weeks. Make sure you both chart your progress and set little prizes each week for who does the most pushups or runs the farthest in 10 minutes.
Ok for some of you bringing a friend to the gym is not possible, or none of your friends are as motivated as you are so here’s something for you. Just pick someone else in the gym is who is real hardcore and use their energy to boost your workouts. Just make a mental note and refer to this each time you workout. I’ve found this really helps me when I’m slugging through a workout day.
Motivation Tips #4: Ask Questions
With knowledge comes power to overcome your biggest fears and failures so ASK questions! Get over the shyness factor when you’re working out or playing a sport and ask others who are successful about their tips and techniques.
Just one side tip – be specific! Don’t ask “what did you do to get so lean?”, but instead ask “what exercise have you found to help you burn the most fat?”. Then keep asking questions about the time of the day they train and what foods they eat.
I’ll help you out even more, ask me questions in this blog whenever you are reading these articles. You’ll find I’m pretty good at answering almost all your questions and when others add to these comments we can really take our knowledge of health to the next level.
Motivation Tips #5: Be Prepared for Set Backs
Ok so we all have events come up or have some major work stress that we must conquer and this interferes with our workout plan and healthy eating. Take 5 minutes right now and make a plan for what to do when things like that come up. Perhaps you need 3 or 4 recipes of quick and healthy foods you can make in these circumstances. Write them up and have the ingredients ready in your house as something will come up at least once this week/month right?
You may also want to have a few pieces of workout equipment that don’t take up space in your home and a workout ready that you can do in 30 minutes for these crazy times. Refer to two of my most read articles which includes a list of workout gear everyone should have at home: workout routines for men at home and workout routines for women at home.
Have any other unique motivation tips you’d like to include? Please leave a comment below…
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