Sunday, August 12, 2012

How to Keep Yourself Motivated For The Summer Workout

Keeping a workout regime running during the summer season is no easy feat. For that,  try out these 3 simple tricks for enduring consistency and success:

Build a ritual: 

People are creatures of habits; we tend to reiterate the same physical and mental patterns on a daily basis and what permits us to do so are the rituals we practiced over time. Therefore, if you turn your workout program into a ritual, you'll make it a part of your daily routine, therefore you won’t have to think much in order to do it--it will just happen on auto-pilot. You can do this by committing to a precise time and place for the exercise, regardless of your circumstances, for at least four weeks.

Use Positive Anchors: 

Anchoring is linking an
exterior stimulus to an external experience or mental condition. Through associative conditioning, you can train your brain to correlate an outside trigger for a mental state that’s most suited for the exercise. For instance, I never go out for a run without my cap, and as soon as I wear it, my body responds instantly and knows that is time for working out. Of course, this happens with practice and time, but it’s definitely worth the hard work.

Peer up With a Partner

You’re the people you surround yourself with. If you blend with healthy and productive individuals, you're more likely to get what you look for, and the other way around. Therefore, be aware of those who you spend time with and do your foremost to mix with more balanced and successful people.

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