How To Motivate Yourself In the Gym

I had a conversation with a client earlier this morning and she said that out of all the diets and exercise infomercials, all of those things are just gimmicks to get you to do something that you don't necessarily want to do or allow you to do the same things that you have been doing all along. In other words, if you are looking for an easy way to exercise, there are a ton of machines out there where all you have to do is sit down and roll or move side to side to get in shape. That's what the pitch is anyway and the great thing is you get to melt away fat doing nothing! If you believe that then I have some farmland in a galaxy far away to sell you. As far as diets go, you can choose from an array of diets that will allow you to eat what you want, drink certain concoctions, eat protein this or fat that, etc. Some of these diets will work for some individuals and some won't. At the end of the day, you know if you haven't eaten a fair share of fruits and vegetables, enough protein and more than enough fat. The point out of all of this is that we all know to a certain degree of what we should be doing as far as eating and exercise, yet we don't do it. It doesn't take rocket science to establish this for most people. If you say that you have to or should do something, you won't do it. You don't have to do anything that's your choice. Your choices have gotten you to where you are now, whether good or bad. Even the choices you have made where you say to yourself, "I don't want or like to do this but I have to anyway!" You don't have to do anything! I repeat you don't have to do anything! If everything you say to yourself that you "have to" do more than likely you won't do it because you don't want to do it anyway and you don't feel motivated or excited about doing it. Change the words around to "I chose to" and you will feel more empowered to do something and more than likely you will do it. If you take small baby steps toward your goals, (1) you will feel better and more empowered, (2) those baby steps will lead to bigger and better things and (3) you will have become a better person along the way. It's not the end destination but the journey there that means more. So next time you are not thinking about going to the gym because you are dreading "having to" workout, change that to "I chose" to workout to feel better and want to so that I can maintain my healthy lifestyle.