A brother asked me recently about how stay motivated for exercise. This is an ongoing issue for anyone. Motivation to train sometimes comes in waves, when you feel very energized and driven to workout. Then, sometimes, this wave passes, and you lapse into laziness.
From my own personal experience, I find a lot of exercises boring, and I can’t force myself to do them consistently. Particularly things like jogging or highly repetitive exercises like lifting weights and so on. Fortunately, the exercises that bore me are also exercises that are not really that beneficial to your overall fitness and strength.
It is standard to set a weight loss goal for yourself; and this is good. It can motivate you to reach the weight you have targeted. However, fitness is not only about losing weight. Also, as most people have discovered, the more weight you lose, the harder you have to work to lose more, because the lighter you weigh, the less easily you will burn calories, and the fitter you become, you will have to train harder just to get your heart rate up. So, we often hit a plateau at some point, and it seems like the fat is not burning as quickly as it was in the beginning. Here, the weight loss goal can almost become a de-motivating factor, because we are discouraged by how slowly we are losing weight.
For myself, I prefer to set goals for myself that have to do with my strength and fitness level. I try to choose exercises that challenge me, things I can’t do yet, and I try to work progressively towards being able to do them. Along the way towards achieving those goals, of course, you will inevitably do harder and harder exercises, more intense conditioning, and you will lose weight, while at the same time being stimulated and challenged, and motivated to keep trying until you succeed.
So, depending on your own level, select some exercise that you are not able to do yet, whether it is something basic like a push-up, or something highly advanced like a back flip or a handstand. Do all the progressions necessary to reach that point, and keep pushing yourself.
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