|
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'.
|
