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Motivation
Many
people believe they can generate motivation through
setting inspiring goals. Motivation is about knowing
why you want a
goal or activity, not
what you want. Sure, knowing
what you want is important because it gives you something
to focus upon. The point is, if you want a particular
goal, setting reasons why you want it is far more
powerful than just visualising the outcome. It creates
far more emotion to realise your underlying driving
force. And it's emotion that is the
key to breaking through our unconscious
minds which is where our
behaviours are based.
Focus
One
aspect of training Motivation is the focus
you put upon the gym session. If you focus on the
pain of training, the inconvenience of getting up
out of the arm chair and making the journey to the
gym, or the poor weather outside that you'll need
to contend with. Then training becomes less appealing.The
answer is to focus
on future results. Bodybuilders
for example don't 'enjoy' lifting a dumbbell in the
same repetitive motion for hours on end- nobody could
possibly enjoy such a mind numbing exercise however,
when they focus
on the muscle growing or the
fat burning away. That growing
feeling and the future results that they know they
will attain then that produces the motivation to push
themselves beyond what a 'normal' person is willing
to do.
All
of these aspects and more are addressed in 'Gym
Confidence and Motivation'.
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