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普通会员Although I am a gym owner and a professional personal trainer, my girlfriend has gained about 22 pounds of weight in the past 2 years.
When she weighed herself finding that her weight had reached a new height, she immediately burst into tears while calling herself fat. At that time I could not actually understand her, but I felt rather distressed. Later, when I thought about it, I suddenly realized a very important question:
Who should be responsible for the fact that you cannot keep going to the GYM?
Every time when my girlfriend decided to lose weight, she would get all the sports equipment prepared and I would make a fitness program for her. She would be (ostensibly) immersed in exercising for 3 days, holding a laptop for TV plays while exercising, and then, well, there was no "and more".
What's worse, after 3 days of exercising(playing), she still kept overeating and claimed that she would strive to lose weight after finishing the food. Next time when I reminded her of exercising, she would use the excuse that she was too busy for something else, and that was the end of the story.
After repeated retrospection and investigation, I have noticed that there are so many people just like my girlfriend who get an fitness card but just come to the gym for several times wasting their money and time pitifully.
Fitness=Education. Engaged in the fitness industry, we consider we have the responsibilities and obligations to help more people to keep exercising. Since our members have bought the gym cards, we should provide a tailwind for them.
For this purpose, our team has collected some reasons why you cannot stick to it in spite of the gym card.
The reasons:
Too busy
Just for fun
No effect
No partners
No guidance
Too much pain
Terrible weather
Impulse consumption
Lazy
So, which of these nine are your reasons? (LOL)
Besides enriching their lives and neutralizing their emotions, the fitness purpose of most people is to lose weight or gain muscle.
We can see they all focus on the changes of their bodies, but I consider exercising can provide us with something much more important. Changes of the bodies, I think, are only the subordination of exercising while the actual meaning of it is to help you improve your heart and your mind, learn self-discipline and pursue a better life.
In order to help you fight against the nine excuses mentioned above, I am gonna give you a few tips.
First, "saying=happening"
We have to learn this equation first. For example, if you plan to go to bed before 12pm. and get up at 7am., don't go to bed at 12:01 or get up at 7:01. Start from the simple things. No matter how much you want to give up, you have to make your words count. Then make it more challenging: If you plan to read a book for one hour each day, you will have to leave an hour for reading.
Firstly you have to make sure 70% of what you say can happen for 7 days. This stage is called “deliberateness and self-consciousness” when you have to remind yourself deliberately.
When you can keep doing it for 21 days straight, you will move to the stage of “deliberateness and nature” when you still need the conscious control generally. During this stage, you can buy a fitness card in a gym( for example, Gomins fitness gym), include exercising into your schedule and keep doing it.
When it comes to the 90th day, you will enter into the stage of “indeliberateness and nature” when you don’t need the conscious control any more.
Only in this way can you keep going to the gym, as getting a fitness card is just the beginning of saying. The key point is to practise “sating=happening”!
Secondly, setting a clear goal
Based on the first tip, you need to set a clear goal. For example, you can find a good boyfriend or girlfriend when you are in good shape; you will have the best mental and physical state in the job interview (besides physical shape, fitness will also help you create a strong character and make you more confident). However, it needs to be hinting that the above goals do not apply to keeping fit in the short term.
As everyone knows, the long-term effect of fitness can be excellent, but the short-term effect is just so so. So how do we set short - term goals and get through early stage when we tend to give up easily?
1. develop an interest and make it become habitual
Go to the gym in certain hours for 3-5 times every week. Only when you take the first step will the follow-up happen. At first, you don't need to pursue high-intensity activities.
Then just keep the habit for at least 21 days. Remember, don't make yourself exhausted, for this stage is mainly to develop your interest and make you enjoy fitness (except the fact that you get a personal trainer, because he or she will arrange a more professional training plan for you).
2. Set a goal according to the result of your body test
Set a simple goal after the body test. For example: to reduce your waistline by 1cm this week; to reduce body fat by 1% or 5% this month. For boys who want to gain muscle, you can always try new weight or new movements. For example: for the first cycle, you can push or pull or squat 8 x 50 kg RM (Repetition Maximum); for the next cycle, you can work with 8 x 50.5 kg RM. Just make sure you can always make some progress, but don't get far away from the “comfort zone”.
If you have reached the above two goals, you will certainly see the effect. If not, come to me and I will give you personal classes for free. There is no way I cannot change you, as I will knead you like kneading the plasticine and give you the perfect shape you like.
Thirdly, a fitness group
The group is so important that you can ask someone enjoying exercising to join the gym with you( if you cannot find anyone, you may work with a personal trainer). In this case, even if you wanted to give up, your partner will encourage you to persevere. After a long time, you will be able to stick to it. Another advantage of a fitness group is that you can always receive fitness-related information at any time, such as mental pre-workout and theoretical knowledge, so that both your awareness and ability of exercising will be improved.
Now I would like to conclude with one last tip, that is to find a gym with a pleasant atmosphere. Details go to:
Reference:
Deliberate Practice
Principles and applications of psychology
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