Whether joining the local gym, or pumping iron from the comfort of their homes, all experienced fitness enthusiasts know that gym training need not be physically draining. Endorphin high, anyone? No, really. With the right attitude, a well rounded diet, and realistic expectations, within a few months even the laziest couch potato would think twice before missing a beginners yoga Orange County CA session not when their newly-visible abs are at stake.
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.
All too often, people will attempt a workout plan geared toward building muscle mass and, after the first week, will marvel at their newfound muscle definition referred to in fitness circles as newbie gains. But instead of that growth trend continuing into the second week, typically they will notice what appear to be muscle and weight loss instead. Merely indicators of body changing and adjusting its overall composition in response to all the weight it's been pushing around. But by completely misreading the signs, they start losing confidence, and begin doubting the effectiveness of the workout plan.
A split second decision later, and just like the Berlin Wall all banged up and out of shape the vision of their dream physique comes shattering to the ground. But it's of little consequence to them since their old habits, and big-boned donkey ways, are simply too habitually ingrained already.
For a person to start enjoying an activity that they'd otherwise dread, the first step is to rewire their brains. Simple. The process involves establishing new dopamine pathways, allowing for new and unique clusters of synapsis and neural connections to be formed but, in the absence of any neurosurgeons, perhaps a more down-to-earth approach would be more appropriate?
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.
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.
All too often, people will attempt a workout plan geared toward building muscle mass and, after the first week, will marvel at their newfound muscle definition referred to in fitness circles as newbie gains. But instead of that growth trend continuing into the second week, typically they will notice what appear to be muscle and weight loss instead. Merely indicators of body changing and adjusting its overall composition in response to all the weight it's been pushing around. But by completely misreading the signs, they start losing confidence, and begin doubting the effectiveness of the workout plan.
A split second decision later, and just like the Berlin Wall all banged up and out of shape the vision of their dream physique comes shattering to the ground. But it's of little consequence to them since their old habits, and big-boned donkey ways, are simply too habitually ingrained already.
For a person to start enjoying an activity that they'd otherwise dread, the first step is to rewire their brains. Simple. The process involves establishing new dopamine pathways, allowing for new and unique clusters of synapsis and neural connections to be formed but, in the absence of any neurosurgeons, perhaps a more down-to-earth approach would be more appropriate?
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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