| STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT COMMITMENT: Being committed to achieving a goal means you've decided to reach it. It does not mean you have to eliminate other goals, but you've decided to WORK to get something you want. |
| STEP ONE: Set some goals. Don't limit your chances of success by setting vague goals or lofty far-reaching "pie in the sky" goals. A goal too vague will not spur you to action. A goal too lofty will give that little failure monster in your psyche (we all have one) a voice. He'll be saying "yeah right! Eat the cookie, you're not gonna loose 30 pounds anytime soon, so one cookie won't hurt!" Or "go ahead take today off, you had a hard day at work today." Squash the failure monster! Set a concrete goal that leads to a larger goal. Example: "I want to lose 10 pounds this month, and 30 before my next birthday." "I want to bench press my bodyweight in 10 weeks." |
| TOUGH TALK.Things you must do..but they're afraid to tell you... 1. If you're after weight loss, you'll have to either stop eating as many calories or burn alot more. Excess bodyweight is caused by eating (or drinking) more calories than you burn. Simple math. If you burn more calories than you ingest, you lose weight. 2. That means ALTERING YOUR DIET. What you've been doing has gotten you here; seeking to change. If you want to lose weight, you'll have to eat less or cleaner...if you want to gain weight, you'll have to eat more! 3. Its gonna take WORK. Exercise sounds similar to exertion right? Kinda like exhausted too eh? You need to burn calories. Theres no need to run a marathon every day or climb the stairs of the Empire State Building every morning, but conversely, you can't prance on the treadmill at 2 MPH for 20 minutes and drop a dress size. |
| STEP TWO: After you've decided upon your goals, get help. A strong recommendation from me to you...start one of these programs with a training partner! Not necessarily a trainer, but someone who will reliably go to the gym with you and whose company you enjoy. When you don't feel alone, you can get more accomplished. Another reason I make this recommendation is that true strength training requires you to lift strenuously...you'll be glad to have a training partner there with you instead of getting the floor trainers to help out. Floor trainers are there to help, and usually glad to do so, but a partner makes it more FUN. |