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Achieve Superhuman Exercise Motivation Using Hypnosis
By Mark Bowden | News
You know the feeling – you want to improve your health, but you simply lack the motivation to exercise. You tell yourself there’s nothing you want more than exercising regularly and improving your health, so you promise yourself you’re going to start on Monday.
Then Monday passes, and you find some excuse for being not exercising, so you promise yourself you’re going to change things up the following Monday.
But here’s the kicker. Every Monday comes and goes, and instead of working out and becoming healthier, you’re still wasting time. It gets to the point where Mondays become these mythical starting points of your new life, but you’re either too busy or too tired to keep your promise.
What you lack is exercise motivation. You really want to improve your health, but you find it difficult to do so. Thankfully, there are scientifically-backed tips and tricks you can use to achieve superhuman exercise motivation.
People lack exercise motivation because they forget how pleasant exercise can be
Does this sound familiar? You set up your alarm clock, prepare your running gear and a bottle of water and you go to sleep. You can’t wait to get up in the morning and start your new life as a jogger.
But when you get up, you realize you’re tired – you could have slept more. It doesn’t matter, you make an effort and get out of bed. You drink some water, tea, or coffee, change into your running gear, and you’re out the door.
It’s freezing. What were you thinking? You should have started later/earlier in the year, when the weather is milder. But you’re not a quitter, so you start running. And you make an effort to wake up the following day as well. And the next one.
You’ve been running for three days now, and you think you’re getting the hang of it. But when the next week starts, you find yourself not running again. You had such a good start, but it’s over now. You might actually think running in the mornings is not for you. What happened?
To be honest, exercising is not pleasant. Your muscles ache, you’re sweaty, you’re out of breath, and you feel tired. So why would you force yourself to run every morning?
Every one of us knows how unpleasant physical exercise can be. One of the most popular exercise mottoes literally states that there can’t be any gains without pain.
But now that you think of it, you realize you don’t really like pain. So you give up running in the morning, probably for good. Here’s why.
You might have heard that physical exercise is a great stress reliever, and that’s true. But exercise can also produce a stress response in your body. And it makes sense, when you think about it.
You are not used to being out of breath, sweating, and having an accelerated pulse. When you start exercising, your body might actually mistake these signs for an anxiety attack. And that happens because you do not allow your body to adapt to your new lifestyle.
A lot of people do this mistake. Once they start exercising, they use an all-in approach. They run for miles or spend hours in the gym each day. Your body is having a difficult time adapting from your previous couch-potato lifestyle to your new highly active one.
So when you believe you’re finally developing a weekly exercise habit, you find yourself not feeling like exercising any longer. You don’t feel like getting up in the morning or running, you feel like you could sleep for days.
When you force yourself to exercise, you’re not having fun and you don’t feel good about yourself. You’re simply performing a task. Athletes and scientists call this physical and mental state overtraining syndrome.
The overtraining syndrome is a normal response to excessive exercise without enough rest, and it usually produces mood changes. And the worst part is, people who have suffered from overtraining syndrome at some point in their lives are less likely to exercise regularly again. That’s why you should avoid straining yourself too much.
Do not let overtraining harm your exercise motivation
The human body is capable of amazing feats. We are the only species in the known Universe capable of climbing the peaks of the Himalayas and diving into the depths of the oceans. Humans have developed communities in the most inhospitable areas in the world, such as the Polar Circle or the edges of the Sahara desert.
But no human did any of these amazing feats overnight. It took years. Sometimes, it took decades or centuries of continuous adaptation. So why would you force your body to go through dramatic changes in a matter of days, not even weeks?
If you want to reach superhuman exercising motivation, you need to develop healthy exercising habits. Here’s how you do it.
The first thing you should keep in mind when you start exercising is that you don’t have to impress anyone. Not even yourself. You are not training to win gold medals in competitions. And there’s no shame in that. You’re training to better yourself and become healthier.
It’s absolutely normal to feel tired after running or lifting weights for ten minutes. So take a break. Drink some water. Examine your progress and allow yourself to be happy for what you’ve achieved so far.
Sure, it might not win any medals, but it’s definitely more than you used to do. Allow your body to adapt to your new lifestyle before you increase the intensity of your workouts.
In time, what you’ve achieved so far might become your warm-up routine. But you will not experience any of that if you stress yourself too much and suffer from overtraining syndrome.
Unfortunately, one of the first things people sacrifice to achieve more things each day is sleep. This is a mistake because sleep is extremely important for your body. You can consider sleep and sleepiness just as important as eating and hunger if that helps you put things in perspective.
And getting plenty of sleep is crucial if you want to improve your exercise motivation. There’s nothing like getting a good night’s sleep. You wake rested and fresh, ready to take on every challenge the day might bring.
But sleep is also important for those who exercise because your muscles regenerate and grow while you sleep. Getting enough sleep will allow your body to prepare for the following day and it will decrease your risk of getting injured.
People who get plenty of sleep are motivated to exercise
Drinking a lot of water is the best thing you can do to recover from your workout. Water helps carry the nutrients and electrolytes in your body to your muscles and organs.
You surely noticed that your heart rate accelerates when you’re exercising. Well, this is your body’s way of making sure your muscles and internal organs benefit from all the blood they need to perform as they should.
But as you exercise, your body is struggling to keep your temperature down to keep you from overheating, so you start to sweat. If you don’t drink a lot of water, you can quickly become dehydrated.
Dehydration means your body is not hydrated enough to perform in optimal conditions. Your blood plasma is a watery substance that constitutes 55% of your blood volume.
But here’s the kicker, since your blood plasma is 92% water, it’s one of the first elements in your body affected by dehydration.
So, when you’re dehydrated, your body is not effective at fueling up your muscles and organs. And as you can imagine, its priority is to fuel up your organs, not your muscles. You simply don’t have enough blood mass to sustain their effort.
As a result, you experience muscle pain, spams, and cramps. Your muscles regenerate slowly, and they do not have enough resources to grow. And all these cramps and muscle aches might also affect your exercise motivation.
There’s no point in exercising constantly if you’re not eating right. Sure, you will still improve your physical appearance and you might lose some weight, but you’re not making things easy for your body.
Eating the right things ensures that your body can access all the right nutrients, vitamins, and microelements it needs to fuel your muscles, help them recover, and boost your energy levels.
Changing your diet will improve both your physical and your mental health. Studies have shown that people following the Mediterranean diet are less likely to be depressed and experience multiple health benefits.
Setting goals gives you something to work for. But there is a science behind setting goals, and you’re about to read a crash course about it.
The first thing you should do when setting goals is finding an ultimate goal. What do you want to get out of your exercise? Do you want to improve your looks? Do you want to improve your self-confidence?
It doesn’t matter what your end goal is, but it’s very important to have one. Now, before setting an ultimate goal, there are some things you should take into considerations. First of all, the goal has to be achievable.
Planning to improve your looks so you can become a successful actor at Hollywood when you’re living on the other side of the planet won’t do you any good.
Your goal has to be achievable, but it should also be something you cannot achieve in the immediate future. Honestly, it’s quite a balancing act, but you should be able to find a suitable goal after some brainstorming.
Now that you have an ultimate goal, it’s time to set intermediate goals. You should set a singular ultimate goal but you should try to set as many intermediate ones as you can.
Writing down goals allows you to set your mind on something and work towards it. Once you accomplish that goal, turn your sights to another one, and so forth. This will help you keep your motivations levels up. Setting goals will also help you keep track of your progress.
The intermediate goals should bring you closer to your ultimate one. Their purpose is to transform the journey to your ultimate goal from a climb on an insurmountable peak into a trek on walkable hills.
Probably the best thing about setting goals is that they help you believe in yourself. You might not think you’re going to do everything you plan for yourself at first. But once you start checking off your completed goals you’ll feel empowered and motivated to do more.
And that’s exactly why you should set goals for yourself.
Hypnosis can help you get in the right mindset to exercise
Hypnosis can help boost your exercise motivation. The ‘Exercise Motivation’ self-hypnosis audio session will help you get into the right mindset to exercise regularly. The audio track is specially developed to help you overcome your worries and give you the extra push to strive for more.
One of the benefits of listening to this self-hypnosis session is that it gives you the motivation to tackle your objectives each day. The audio track engages your subconscious and makes you think of exercising without even realizing it.
Listening to the hypnosis session regularly increases your awareness and convinces you to keep exercising for a healthier life. The audio track will infuse you with confidence to work for your goals, so you will feel great while working out.
Exercise motivation is a skill you can cultivate. Using hypnosis to improve your exercise motivation will help you gain a new perspective on how important working out really is for you. The ‘Exercise Motivation’ self-hypnosis audio session helps you achieve your intermediate and ultimate goals.
Start small and do not push yourself too hard. You’re exercising to improve your health, so don’t put your body through too much stress.
Mark Bowden is a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist & Mental Performance Consultant. He is a best selling author and works with Premier League Football players on mental performance.
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