Train Your Brain 101

Train your Brain 101

If you have a goal this year to be fit by spring you need to also train your brain!  Your success starts with how you approach your training and the way you think!  All too often, "tomorrow" will be the day we hit the ground running with these big plans to drop weight and be fitter and leaner and more effective in our lives.

This is usually something we do with a sense of dread, as if we are pushing a rope up a hill. Whatever the chosen route of diet or exercise, we have already decided before we even lift our first weight or walk our first 5k, that it will be no fun, and that ultimately, as in other years, it just won’t work. But this year and that this time will  leave all that behind and embrace a new approach and win the uphill battle!  

 

And you can! It starts with changing your mind.  Changing your mind will change your body. It is a new way of thinking, and the only resolution you need make is to alter the way you think about your body and about exercise, and then enjoy the results.

 

You may think the way your mind works has little to do with starting a new exercise regime - wrong! It has everything to do with your approach to this annual problem because, as Einstein may or may not have said, insanity is repeating the same action over and over and expecting different results – in this case, starting another unsustainable diet and exercise regime in the new year, getting a short-term improvement, then sliding back to old habits and before you know it, Easter is here and you have been eating chocolate Easter eggs and bunnies to your hearts content!  

 

Change the way you think about exercise and you will be on the way to a long-term, sustainable lifestyle change which will be of immense benefit for your health and wellness both physical, mental and emotional!

 

Think smarter!

 

1. Learn to say you can do it - Whatever change you want to make in your life, you need to get your mind into the right place first.
2. Understand you can always change the way you think - you have control over your mind, you can always choose a different thought, and that will affect how you feel about things.
3. Appreciate the things you can do instead of focusing on what you can't -Find a spark of happiness and build on that.
4. Challenge negative thoughts -get in the habit of changing your negative thought as they pop in your mind and challenging it as if you were supporting a reluctant friend
5. Be your own biggest fan - choose to be kind to yourself and encourage yourself as if you there for your best friend
6. And let go of your ego -You don’t have to leap in and try to do the hardest version of any exercise, then beat yourself up when you find it difficult.

Will you say, "I wish I had", or "I am glad I did"?

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