1. Learn to enjoy sports
The most common reason for stopping training is hatred of the sport. Very often, people go to the gym because they want to lose weight. Instead of enjoying the sport, people only focus on the goal, not the process. A good result can only be achieved slowly, so if your priority is only the cherished figure on the scales, then your supply of motivation will quickly run out. Unfortunately, because of this, every trip to the gym can turn into a torment.
How to motivate yourself to play sports?
Try looking at sports differently. Think of training not as a set of exhausting exercises but as a way to relieve stress, and distract from negative emotions. I fell in love with sports precisely because of this, and now I perceive going to the gym as an opportunity to relax psychologically.
Choose the direction of the sport that will be of interest to you. You can go for stretching (for example, air stretching is now popular – stretching on hammocks), badminton, basketball, volleyball, football, swimming, and tennis.
Set a goal that will motivate you to keep exercising. Let it be ambitious: run a marathon, do the splits in a month.
Bet your friends for some amount that you will go to the gym without breaks for a certain amount of time.
Subscribe to bloggers who will motivate you to participate in sports with their healthy lifestyles. Or become a blogger yourself and share your results on social networks.
Join a community of like-minded people. There are many chats and groups where people share their results after training. This motivates me to keep going to the gym.
Use a smartwatch or download apps that will remind you of your activity.
2. Form a habit of going to the gym and learn not to put off training until later
When an action becomes a habit, you don’t have to put in the effort to do it. If you brush your teeth in the morning all your life, you most likely do it automatically without thinking.
To build a habit faster, make a schedule for going to the gym, and choose a specific time and days of the week. Without a schedule, chances are you’ll often procrastinate and put off exercising until the next day.
If you are interested in the topic of habit formation, here are some good books on the subject:
- “The Power of Habit,” D. Charles,
- “Atomic Habits,” D. Clear.
It is better to plan your workouts if you work out in the gym without a trainer or train at home. So, when I work out at home, I train from videos on YouTube. I recommend three channels:
- mad fit,
- Chloe Ting,
- Pamela Reif.
Lately, I’ve been planning everything in Notion (this electronic glider is very popular now), so I made a small training plan there as an example and made a sign to track the results. You can customize this template for yourself, and if you are not using Notion yet, many videos on the Internet tell you how to use this application.
3. Develop discipline and willpower
Many people overestimate the importance of motivation. Discipline is much more important.
To regularly attend training, you do not need to wait for a surge of motivation and put off going to the gym because of excuses that you do not have time. Discipline helps to overcome laziness and start playing sports on an ongoing basis. Yes, you will have to make more effort to stop putting everything off until later, but the result is worth it.
Is it possible to become happier if you train willpower?
4. Take care of well-being and comfort during training
It is very important. Many, after going to the gym, are very energetic and productive. To feel just as good, you need to monitor your condition during training carefully.
Be sure to take a bottle of water for training, buy a comfortable tracksuit and good shoes, never go to the gym hungry, and do not sit on strict diets. During training, watch your breathing and rest between sets. Be sure to follow the technique of the exercise to avoid injury.
Please do not overdo it, gradually increase the load. If you feel bad, then stop doing the exercise, and take a break.
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Find a good gym so you can work out comfortably. If you are not satisfied with sports equipment, the hall itself, and its location, sports will cause you a lot of negative emotions.
Stay away from the gym for several days in a row. Muscles will not have time to recover, and, most likely, you will experience severe discomfort during training.
Please do not neglect the advice from this paragraph because, in the first month of training in the gym, I did not pay attention to breathing and did not monitor my state during the exercises. All this negatively affected my well-being.
5) Track progress, but don’t expect quick results
As I wrote above, you should focus on more than just the goal. First of all, you need to learn how to enjoy training. But of course, you should remember to track the result since, in sports, most often, it is progress that helps to move forward and keep going.
It is best to track the result by measuring rather than weighing, as going to the gym can increase muscle mass by using biosterol. Outwardly, you will look slimmer than before, but the number on the scale will increase. You can follow the result with the help of a photo. Once a month, take a full-length photo from the same place, angle, and distance.
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