Wanted to exercise and started to exercise, but the good times do not last long, adhere to a few days to give up. Because sticking to it is not an easy thing, no matter what you stick to. Not to mention the movement, and to give the movement to schedule time and to find abuse, in a word is to adhere to another thing is not very comfortable with their own genuinely not easy. Even so, there are always a lot of people walking on the road of exercise.
There is a need to start
Need is one of the motives to start and adhere to the movement, look at the park running friends, adhere to the square dance ladies, and in the gym sweating old iron, they are either to lose weight, or for health, or in order to build muscle. All of these purposes are their motivation to start and stick with it.
Starting doesn't always mean sticking with it
After we have the need and start exercising, we are always enthusiastic and motivated at first, and always able to do it against all odds, but the problem comes as the novelty diminishes. There are too many constraints surrounding it, and these constraints do not make us better at sticking to it.
How can we better stick to it
There will be a need to start the key is not to be able to better stick to it, according to their own situation to develop a suitable plan to adhere to it is not a difficult task, then want to adhere to what I should do?
1. To have a clear purpose
What is the purpose of your exercise, weight loss? Health? Muscle building? No matter what the purpose must be clear. With a clear purpose in order to have a clear plan, in order to better carry out the next step, then your movement will be more targeted
2. Set a certain degree of difficulty, but is not very difficult to complete the goal
Your goal can not be too simple, too simple, not challenging, easy to complete will not stimulate the desire to challenge, easy to produce burnout. And the goal is too difficult not easy to complete and will blow self-confidence and give up halfway. For example, if you want to lose weight, if the goal of a month is to reduce 3 pounds, then he is not difficult to complete after appropriate efforts, after the completion of the confidence will be doubled, confidence will be used as a motivation for you to carry out the next movement. But if the goal is 20 pounds, in a month can not be completed will be y hit, and can not lift the energy.
3. Appropriate to give yourself a reward
After each completion of the task to give yourself a certain reward, or to buy a favorite dress, or to reward yourself with a meal, or to buy a small equipment, and then tell yourself to continue to work hard.
4. Find a companion with the same interests
Companions can encourage each other or compete with each other, and in the encouragement and competition **** together to move forward.
5. Seek a sense of belonging
If the conditions allow, go to the gym, a go in will have the urge to exercise there is no, there will be a sense of belonging to the atmosphere there, looking at other people in the sweat like rain, you are also embarrassed to always be in the selfie is it
6. Learning to manage the time
We are always wasting our time in the usual not important things. Things above, so it is not no time, but no reasonable arrangement of time, if the movement is categorized as an important thing to do, time will have; if it is categorized as an unimportant thing, then of course there is no time
7. attention to their own changes after the movement
For example, you are trying to lose weight, so how about measuring your body weight once a week? Wouldn't it be exciting to watch your weight undertake a downward trend?
Persistence is your ability to maintain an action despite your feelings. You continue to do it even when you want to quit.