All about Weightlifting and Weight Loss

Do you know that most people go about gaining muscle or burning fat completely the wrong way? Not only in the technical aspects of it, but they don’t have any fun doing it. It’s a stinking chore to go to the gym. They hate the food part. It’s a nightmare and any excuse they can find not to go, they’ll find it. This is why about April, all the New Year’s people are gone.

Fun. That’s right. Feel the fun in your work outs and feel the fun of being fit.

Here are some tips that may help you get motivated to get to the gym in the short term. This list is not all inclusive, but it does have some things you can use to keep yourself going to the gym long after the New Year’s crowd has quit. The first three are following, the others will come in my next issue(s):

Photos: Pictures can be very inspirational! Regardless of what you think of those magazines, having a picture to look at is helpful in letting your mind capture an image of what you want. Once your mind has the image, you will start to take actions in life to accomplish that. I recall when I wanted my first bicycle, I used visualization techniques. I kept looking at the pictures over and over each night. Eventually I got my bicycle! This worked for getting a new car, a house and just about everything else. Once I could visualize what I wanted, my mind helped me to take actions to set my body in motion.

Set Small Goals: Sometimes it’s much easier to think of getting around the next corner then it is to look at the big picture. Imagine you would drive a ralley. You have many goals before you reach the end - actually you have to make a goal for everyday of the journey. These small goals keep you going. Rather than look at the final objective all the time, use land markers to keep you going from one point to another.

A technique you can use at the gym. Set weekly goals (1 lb a week) rather than looking at what you want to accomplish a year from now. Get the fun of reaching weekly goals and if you find your goal was set to high, set it again for the next week or set it smaller. Just be sure to set reachable goals that you don’t need any excuses (which would demotivate). Later, when you feel more sure of yourself, you may set monthly or quarterly goals to motivate you even more. You can also change the outlay of your weekly goals in many ways to get your fun, i.e. one week about increasing weight, one about leg work, one about increase of resistance and another about your diet etc.

Music: A classic motivator. Personally it distracts me. But for many, their favorite mix jam is just what they need to get into the zone and feel amped up. If you like music and it doesn’t bother you at all, then consider it for an extra boost when you don’t feel like working out. Music can easily put you into the mood.

Try these and they’ll keep you going. The longer you keep going the more you’ll get the fun of working out and burning fat and feeling fit.

Soon more about it…