Hopping On The Gym Train Shouldn't Entail Pain Beginners Yoga Orange County CA

By Carol Rogers


With so many ways of approaching gym training, it's little wonder there's so much confusion abound in the fitness industry. No pain, no gain, is how the somewhat cliched fitness axiom goes. But with so many people placing unrealistic expectations upon themselves, is it any wonder so few endure past their first few weeks of beginners yoga Orange County CA, the most difficult part of an exercise program to see any tangible results.

It is a bit like enticing an overweight donkey with a carrot your fitness goals being the carrot, and you being the fat ass, pardon, big boned donkey, unless one keeps raising the bar and their fitness ideals are kept just slightly out of reach, seemingly attainable but still outside one's grasp, there's usually little motivation to keep pressing forward towards bigger and better milestones.

Then it is off to McDonald's for two celebratory Big Macs, washed down by a large Diet Coke, which they hope is big enough to cut a few calories off the burgers before they're digested. One can not really blame them. After all, they have a lifetime of bad habits compelling them toward the burgers. But with only a week invested into getting into shape, the new activity had not had the opportunity to take root within their subconscious minds. The minimum of fourteen days required to form a new habit had not been reached yet, so working out regularly still felt like a foreign concept to them.

Even the most reluctant newbie can be seen spitting fire and reaching for the heaviest weights they can find during their first week of training. But by the second week, the full-body aches and pains, commonly referred to as DOMS delayed onset muscle soreness, are being felt to the Nth degree. And being unable to lift even a fraction of the weight they did the week prior, they start second-guessing their willingness, and even desire, to finish up what is only the second week of their fitness regimen.

And, almost like Humpty Dumpty, they commit fitness suicide by leaping from the heights of their aspirations, while screaming, self destructive statements. Then all of their health goals come tumbling down. And all the fitness trainers and all friends could never put Humpty together again. Because poor Humpty had come to identify with self defeat way more than with any sense of accomplishment.

The simple solution would have been for them to have placed more emphasis on the vision of how they would have benefitted from subjecting themselves to the fire, rather than focusing on the fire itself. Simply put, burning feels bad; but coming out on the other side of the experience, feels good.

Because all things in nature follow a set pattern form follows function, as they say so even eggs need to be gestated over a certain period of time before their new and improved selves are ready and able to come bursting forth, straight onto the catwalk, strutting with a twist in their hips, wiggling their new tailfeathers at the world. But should one quit before having reached 21 days or 14 days, for the bare minimum of doing an activity, the activity would still feel foreign; not really a part of one's lifestyle. So, it would be easy to stop doing it and forget about it like it never happened.

So, the next time that person hits the gym, they get rewarded with a small burst of dopamine one of the brain's feel good neurotransmitters. Eventually, usually after several repetitions, this behavioural pattern becomes etched into the brain's neural pathways forming a new habit. Addictions are formed the same way. And considering how research done at Duke University found that 45 percent of people's day to day actions are the product of habit, as opposed to conscious decision making, pushing through that second week of a workout regimen could mean the difference between still boasting a chiselled 6-pack at sixty, to succumbing to a fatal cardiac arrest at forty. A person only ever reaps what they've sown.




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