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1: Self-Efficacy
This has been shown to be one of the most important factors contributing to success in a workout program. Self-efficacy can be defined as your personal belief that you are in fact capable of performing the behavior or achieving your goal.
What Are Your Goals?
>Lose Fat
>Build Muscle
>Improve Energy
>Other
2: Family & Friend Support
Taking up a new exercise regime will require many changes in your daily schedule. You may have to give up some of the responsibilities you previously held in order to find the time to commit to exercising. With a supportive family and friend network, this task will be much easier.
3: A Positive Attitude
Having a positive attitude about your workout program will go along way to helping you stay motivated and committed. When you have positive thoughts regarding exercise, it makes it seem like less of a chore and more of an enjoyable experience to you. If you remain positive at all times, even when you may not be seeing all the results you dreamed of, you will still be able to stay focused and look at how far you have come.
4: An Action Plan
The next most important aspect of any workout program or goal for that matter is having an effective action plan. You need to have the means to reach your end and without a detailed account on how you plan on going about obtaining your goals, you will have great difficulty getting there as quickly as you hope.
5: Organizational Skills
Get organized by tracking what you eat, how you train and keep notes on every workout…
You need to be organized enough within your daily life to allow yourself a good deal of time each week to dedicate to fitness and preparing and cooking healthy meals.
A great investment is a daily planner that is large enough for you to schedule all of your tasks in, including your workout. Book your time at the gym in like you would any other appointment. This will ensure nothing steals this time away from you.
6: Intrinsic Motivation
There Are Two Types Of Motivation:
Intrinsic motivation on the other hand is the type where you are performing the action based strictly on the fact that you love doing it and find a personal satisfaction from doing it. This is more common among athletes ( and those who take up a hobby that they tend to loose themselves in.
What Motivates You To Keep Healthy?My Current Physique.
My Workout Partner.
My Physical Trainer.
Positive Influences (i.e. Personal Idols).
Negative Influences (i.e. Bad Habits).
* Extrinsic
Extrinsic motivation is the type where you are not really doing an activity because you truly love it, but rather because you are being rewarded from an external source. For example, if someone was paying you to work out.
This type of motivation tends to decrease our desire to perform the action since we almost begin to view it as something that has to be done, rather than something we are doing on our own will.
7: A Reward System
This may seem like a funny point considering what you just read on extrinsic motivation, however having a reward system can be very beneficial. What is important is that the rewards are set by you and have a particular meaning to you. This will keep everything under your control so you won’t begin to feel like you are being regulated by someone else (as is usually the case for extrinsic motivation).
By setting small rewards after each step in your plan, you will give yourself something to look forward to and keep yourself motivated to keep pushing onward.
8: A Role Model
Choosing The Right Role Models For You!
In bodybuilding especially having good role models is very important in the trainees quest for new muscle. Role models are an important source of inspiration and information.
Role models can be very important tools in any type of goal program. By having someone who you look up to, whether it is for their values, their hard work, or how they look, you will be providing yourself with a measure on which to measure yourself with.
Granted, it is not good to measure yourself against everyone you see, as this may make you start to feel inadequate and upset with yourself, but by having one chosen individual who you wish to become more like, you will be able to compare yourself and see what areas you need to improve on and where you have made a great deal of progress.
9: Knowledge
Having a good knowledge base is critical to putting together any workout program. If you yourself don’t know a whole lot about fitness and weight training, consulting a fitness trainer, physical education instructor, or someone who is currently working out and has a great deal of experience with this issue, is a great idea.
On the other hand, if you are more independent, you could take up reading some quality (remember, a lot of information out there is mostly propaganda so you need to be selective in your choices) books, journals, magazines, and online sites such as this one.
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Hey Brandon, the first thing that should motivate you is your own well being, health and weight. Only you know this answer.
However, besides all of the medical "Mumbo Jumbo", I used to have a personal trainer that I had to pay prior to our appointment. If I did not show up. she was still paid…..This motivated me to actually show up. It did work….For a while, but then my laziness kicked in anyway (Not to mention she did have me looking great body wise, which is what I wanted). But….When I stopped, I never continued "Keeping it up" on my own.
Find a workout buddy, or a trainer as I said that will help motivate you. Nobody (At least not me!) likes to work out, but a friend, someone you have hired, does help if they are there with you.
I'm not saying you have to pay someone, but if you say "Hey, wanna work out with me?" to a friend or something (In your garage, apartment gym or wherever), it helps, and is usually more fun and it does not seem like a chore.
Good luck!, Hope this helps!
well you could unload your fridge of junk and refill with just healthy nutrient dense food which are low in calories and then stick a pic of a ripped or a heavily muscled guy depending upon your own personal goals on the fridge door – BUT if you are trying to get ripped – don't forget to have a cheat day once a week as you will hit a sticking point on low calories and therefore have to lower your daily calorific amount again OR do more cardio in order to break it ,this will reset the metabolism and speed it up as whatever you do – the body adapts over time to either a negative or positive life style….
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