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I always start out with good intentions about working out, but I lose my steam after a little while. How can I stay motivated? Honestly, this is exactly why I started MyBodyTutor.com. I noticed a growing and alarming trend. We’re all connected to the Internet 24/7, we’re all working later, and we’re eating out more than ever before. It’s extremely difficult to stay consistent, yet it’s way too easy to make excuses. There are a million distractions, meetings, hours to be worked, kids that need us, friends that want to see us and on and on and on. This makes it way too easy to make excuses and lie to ourselves. We begin to justify and rationalize things. We keep breaking our promises. This is awful. You start to lose trust in yourself and don’t take yourself seriously anymore. Keeping our promises builds self-discipline. I noticed myself starting to slack when I was in corporate America. I also noticed everyone around me constantly made excuses when it came to their health and fitness. Yet everyone I knew wanted to be healthier and more fit. Everyone does it. (Well, mostly everyone does it.) We don’t need dense diet books. Did you know that nine percent of all USA Today bestsellers are diet books? Yet today, the New England Journal of Medicine reports that two years after going on a diet, on average, people weigh more than when they started. Obviously the problem is consistency. We all need that daily and personal accountability or else it’s just too easy to lie to ourselves! Or, like I said in my last interview, you really need to decide what you want out of your life. How do you want to look and feel? Write it down every morning. This way, when you’re motivation is close to nil, which will happen, you’ll remember your goal and hopefully it’ll motivate you enough to make it happen! 4 CommentsLeave a comment |
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Love the way this kid thinks!
I don't think the problem with keeping the weight off is entirely consistency. I think it's the whole diet mentality - the restriction, followed by the feelings of deprivation, then binging and then guilt, so people go back to restriction and the cycle begins again!
Ashlea, I totally agree. But I don't think Adam was talking about keeping weight off -- I think he was just talking about working out consistently as a way to improve your health and the way you feel.
I like that Adam is concentrating on questions of motivation and, I guess, psychology in this edition. From what I hear (and from the intro to the post) it sounds like that is what he does best and I do find it helpful, just maybe not in response to specific questions about workouts or "how many reps of this" or "what should I eat before a long run" or whatever. Perhaps you guys could bring in another contributor to answer some of these "technical" type questions? (Not saying Adam doesn't have the expertise, I'm sure he does, but it seems that his strength is really in motivating people and it would be cool if he could continue to concentrate on that.) BTW, despite my negative comment to the last post (which I still stand by with respect to his answers to the specific questions that were asked) I appreciated Adam's response in the comments and I think his message about changing your life if necessary (job, lifestyle, etc.) and prioritizing the things that you need to do to be healthy is one that many of us do need to hear. We hear all the time that you should work out and eat healthy no matter what, but not so much (and I know this is something that can't be changed for many people, but for those of us who can make these changes) about limiting those aspects of your life that cause you stress, prevent you from having time to work out or cook, or keep you from getting enough sleep. All things which really do seem to be super-important to overall health.
This is a random thought, but there was an exercise scientist who used to do a column for Taste of Home's Light & Tasty magazine. I don't remember her name, but she had a down-to-earth "everyperson" type of approach to exercise advice. I think someone like this might be a good choice if you do decide to bring in someone for Q&A's on "sports medicine" or "technical" questions about workouts, or whatever you would call it.