Fitness Motivation (Bonus Post)

"The end goal of fitness is to live a better, healthier life. "

The process to get there is long and drawn out with focus on diet, exercise, sleep and hydration. With each one of those topics a long process in itself. I find it easiest to take them all one by one and break them down until you no longer have to think about them individually. Exercise turns into a habit, diet turns into a life style, sleep comes easy and for enough hours, hydration turns into running to the bathroom because you forget just how much water you are drinking.

“Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.”

The start to this long journey is to get and stay motivated. There are many forms of motivation and more and more coming onto the market every year with the advent of technology. 

Self Motivation: Wanting to better yourself and using your will power to make it happen. This is the basic free package of motivation. This is the one that is tried and true and is for the strong willed individuals.

Forced Motivation: This is similar to self motivation except there is usually an ulterior motive for making a change. Whether it was out ancient ancestors having to become fit and stronger to find a mate or to survive; or modern day humans who have to make a change so they can manage their diabetes or have a minimized risk of injury, or other health related topics.

Point Based Motivation: a rather new form of motivation that comes from digital tracking of exercise and exertion. First Pedometers and now phone applications that tell you how many calories you have gone thru in a workout. A great tool to have at your disposal whether its for losing weight, or tracking how many calories you need to take in to gain weight (healthy weight).

Short Term Psychological Motivation: Looking at motivational pictures, videos, quotes and stories. These will only effect you for about 5 minutes before your mind becomes focused on something else. However, if seeing a motivation picture gets you out of your seat and in the mindset to work out, keep doing it!

      - Long Term: Take a motivational source and hanging it on your wall, keep it ask your background on your phone, computer, putting that picture of the goal you want on the mirror in your bathroom or on a sticky note on your wall and dont take it down until its reached.
Ex: I used to have a sticky note with a big 300 on my wall until i had reached the 300 pound bench press goal that i set for myself.

Use what ever technique you need to get yourself headed into the right direction. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments below.

Workout 

50 - 40 - 30 - 20 - 10

Mountain Climbers

Pushups 

Situps

(50 reps of each movement, and then 40 reps of each movement)

Rest 5 minutes, Run 2 miles at a moderate pace.