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Special Report #70
Part of the
“I see you to succeeding"
series.
You Can't Give What You Don't Got...
You Can't keep What you Haven't Earned!
You Can't keep What you Haven't Earned!
One of the greatest hurdles to overcome when you decide to get fit and healthy once and for all, is surpassing the environment you grew up in.
In other words, the difficulty of attempting to give yourself a personality quality that wasn't in your family to begin with or the inability to maintain a goal once achieved, when it's in conflict with how you see yourself.
For people who are new to working out or haven't successfully reached and maintained their goals (same thing).
Until a person reaches their goal and then maintains it, they haven't reached that point in success psychology where they can see / envision beyond 'trying' to 'being'.
In reflecting on my own success in beginning a program, my main goal was to learn how to properly exercise without hurting myself (so I could maintain it in the long run) as well as hopefully learn some stuff about nutrition.
I didn't really have expectations since I had been a skinny guy my whole life. When I graduated high school I weighed 144 pounds at about six feet tall.
While I was working my way through the first eight weeks of my workouts (3x / week), my main focus was simply on doing the exercises the best and most correct I could. I still saw myself as that skinny guy but had no idea the changes that were occurring. I did begin to feel more competent, in that I knew that I needed to show up three times a week, rest a day in between and do a five minute warm up on the bike and then lift weights for about an hour and then finish with 20 minutes riding the bike...remember, all I expected was to learn proper form.
A big point here is that no one else in my family exercised and in fact I got made fun of a out as though I was wasting my time. But, each time I worked out I felt a little better, a little stronger and had a little more inner confidence. I still wasn't expecting any body building miracles since my self image was that of a skinny guy. I really couldn't stand to even look at myself in the mirror and I couldn't count on my home life for support in these exercise endeavors. Even friends I was closest with, ones who had participated in sports all through school had no interest in being consistent with workouts. Along the way, many people wanted to come to the gym with me and "check it out" but none continued. I simply kept doing the basics (3 workouts / week with a day in between to rest).
On my time away from the gym I read everything I could and compared it with my personal experience but I was so naïve when it came to nutrition that often my blood sugar would drop off after y workout and I would nearly pass out.
Somewhere in the first few months, I had just gotten home from my workout and was going to shower. At that time I was still living at home in a trailer court...very depressing. But this day was different because I caught a glimpse of myself in the bathroom mirror and couldn't believe what I saw. Remember, my focus was on learning to exercise correctly and moving beyond the first workout (6-8 weeks) that my trainer had designed and progressing to the second six to eight weeks...I had no idea my physique was improving so much.
Needless to say, I was hooked. Yes, the workouts seemed like 'work' per se, but I really felt that I got more reward for what I put in compared than I thought I would...and again, this was before I knew about nutrition.
Nowadays, the way I train people, (it has advanced so far since my beginning days) they usually are experiencing decent results within three days of beginning a program. When people hire a trainer they tend to expect to see results relatively quickly and so the way I train takes that into account.
There are those clients who plunk down the money, say, "Yay, yay..uh-huh...you bet" and then don't follow through at all on their part of working out (unreasonable expectations). These are often the people who complain the most but invest the least. This ties into the ideas of apathy, complaining, lack of decision to change themselves to get better results and so on.
Burning fat and getting lean and becoming healthy is really a doing thing. You really have to simply focus and apply the very basic fundamentals long enough for the body to start remodeling the lean mass to fat ratio. Its not something that comes from wanting or saying...it has to be earned by sticking to the very basic fundamentals and then expanding on them every six to eight weeks.
Until one goes beyond the wanting and trying to the "ah-ha" moment where they can see and feel for themselves the point of working out consistently, they won't maintain any gains or losses in body composition and health. If someone does get to that point but still doesn't maintain it then that points to psychological and emotional issues that have to be figured out so that their inner goals and motivations aren't conflicting with each other. In other words, had I simply been comfortable and felt more safe living at home in the trailer court as a skinny, 144 lb guy I probably would have had an inner conflict and most likely, the easier choice would have been to not workout. In every area of my life, I had more peer pressure to not workout than to workout and most of my role models didn't believe in working out at all.
As a side note, I was driving 18 miles each way to the gym!
Sov
In other words, the difficulty of attempting to give yourself a personality quality that wasn't in your family to begin with or the inability to maintain a goal once achieved, when it's in conflict with how you see yourself.
For people who are new to working out or haven't successfully reached and maintained their goals (same thing).
Until a person reaches their goal and then maintains it, they haven't reached that point in success psychology where they can see / envision beyond 'trying' to 'being'.
In reflecting on my own success in beginning a program, my main goal was to learn how to properly exercise without hurting myself (so I could maintain it in the long run) as well as hopefully learn some stuff about nutrition.
I didn't really have expectations since I had been a skinny guy my whole life. When I graduated high school I weighed 144 pounds at about six feet tall.
While I was working my way through the first eight weeks of my workouts (3x / week), my main focus was simply on doing the exercises the best and most correct I could. I still saw myself as that skinny guy but had no idea the changes that were occurring. I did begin to feel more competent, in that I knew that I needed to show up three times a week, rest a day in between and do a five minute warm up on the bike and then lift weights for about an hour and then finish with 20 minutes riding the bike...remember, all I expected was to learn proper form.
A big point here is that no one else in my family exercised and in fact I got made fun of a out as though I was wasting my time. But, each time I worked out I felt a little better, a little stronger and had a little more inner confidence. I still wasn't expecting any body building miracles since my self image was that of a skinny guy. I really couldn't stand to even look at myself in the mirror and I couldn't count on my home life for support in these exercise endeavors. Even friends I was closest with, ones who had participated in sports all through school had no interest in being consistent with workouts. Along the way, many people wanted to come to the gym with me and "check it out" but none continued. I simply kept doing the basics (3 workouts / week with a day in between to rest).
On my time away from the gym I read everything I could and compared it with my personal experience but I was so naïve when it came to nutrition that often my blood sugar would drop off after y workout and I would nearly pass out.
Somewhere in the first few months, I had just gotten home from my workout and was going to shower. At that time I was still living at home in a trailer court...very depressing. But this day was different because I caught a glimpse of myself in the bathroom mirror and couldn't believe what I saw. Remember, my focus was on learning to exercise correctly and moving beyond the first workout (6-8 weeks) that my trainer had designed and progressing to the second six to eight weeks...I had no idea my physique was improving so much.
Needless to say, I was hooked. Yes, the workouts seemed like 'work' per se, but I really felt that I got more reward for what I put in compared than I thought I would...and again, this was before I knew about nutrition.
Nowadays, the way I train people, (it has advanced so far since my beginning days) they usually are experiencing decent results within three days of beginning a program. When people hire a trainer they tend to expect to see results relatively quickly and so the way I train takes that into account.
There are those clients who plunk down the money, say, "Yay, yay..uh-huh...you bet" and then don't follow through at all on their part of working out (unreasonable expectations). These are often the people who complain the most but invest the least. This ties into the ideas of apathy, complaining, lack of decision to change themselves to get better results and so on.
Burning fat and getting lean and becoming healthy is really a doing thing. You really have to simply focus and apply the very basic fundamentals long enough for the body to start remodeling the lean mass to fat ratio. Its not something that comes from wanting or saying...it has to be earned by sticking to the very basic fundamentals and then expanding on them every six to eight weeks.
Until one goes beyond the wanting and trying to the "ah-ha" moment where they can see and feel for themselves the point of working out consistently, they won't maintain any gains or losses in body composition and health. If someone does get to that point but still doesn't maintain it then that points to psychological and emotional issues that have to be figured out so that their inner goals and motivations aren't conflicting with each other. In other words, had I simply been comfortable and felt more safe living at home in the trailer court as a skinny, 144 lb guy I probably would have had an inner conflict and most likely, the easier choice would have been to not workout. In every area of my life, I had more peer pressure to not workout than to workout and most of my role models didn't believe in working out at all.
As a side note, I was driving 18 miles each way to the gym!
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