Motivation - Is it a Key to Weight Loss

Motivating yourself for task as demanding as exercise and weight loss is not the easiest of things to do. Rather, its one of the toughest. Even if you know the best form of exercise, it is often not possible to do them due to lack of self-motivation.

Weight loss is directly associated with burning more calories. It is better to lay more stress on "burning more" rather than "consuming less" as the former is easier to motivate oneself for. For this purpose there are basically three categories of exercises:

Aerobics

Flexibility

Strength training

The main purpose of Aerobics is to burn more of your calories through exercises like skipping. Half an hour per day is fine for starters. However, many people performing aerobics tend to ignore the importance of strength training exercises like weight lifting. All forms of strength training will give you more muscle and muscle burns 20 times more calories than fat!

Muscle size directly relates to your effort in training. The harder you train, the more fat you burn and the more visible your muscles become. Technically, muscle builds in the 30 to 60 second breaks in between the sets with weights - you have to tear your muscles to build them! You may not be able to complete all the reps; but that is where self-motivation can really improve performance.

Getting into partnerships during workouts can double your motivation. Be sure that the people you are getting into partnership share with you the same goals you cherish. The reps will then rise, and diet will get tamed. They do not say for nothing that partnerships achieve more than partners alone!

Self-motivation made you start. Now it is important to keep it going. Firstly, it is important for you to know why you or any one of us is motivated for any thing in life. It is simply the belief. If you believe in totality that exercise is the solution to your problem of excess weight, you will directly have the necessary motivation. Such motivation would mean the best performance and hence the best results.

Belief in what weight loss will let you achieve is also the key. It does not necessarily have to be logical. If it is a highly valued aspect in life, it may well be illogical. You should know the goals that you dearly want to achieve or experience. Such things are predominantly intangible. Fun, freedom and security are some of them. Such goals can play a major role in self-motivation. One should be ready to accept and believe in the idea that motivates them - to prepare yourself not to bring logic or reason in way of your belief.

Some people rightly state: "seeing is believing". To believe something that you know is good for you, sight is a good tool. As you cannot foresee exactly future events, you should resort to mind's imaging ability. It would not let you down! Learn to fashion the unwanted mental picture into the desired YOU that you imagine. If you don't - belief could change to doubt in no time!

In the end, the real motivation reveals when you can see your bathroom scale read you less. No feeling should be more divine to you than that you get, while standing alone in your underpants in your bathroom, to find yourself reading some pounds less!

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