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

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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.

Because whether they have reached their ideals or not, the reason most people fall short of the finish line, settling for less, and can't seem to keep that fire burning under their donkeys, can be summed up in one word: habit. It takes about two weeks some say three in order to gain or lose a habit.

Most people's motivations are like the wind: it merely comes and goes, blowing to and fro. And being more captivated by outside appearances than their inner-drives, gladiators-in-training are prone to dropping the gauntlet at the first sign of opposition. They had not endured their trial by fire yet, reflexively pulling back from the flame before they even had the chance to touch it.

Moments later, and in vivid detail, they'd be able to tell you all about the flame and how it felt. Because, in their mind's eye, they were able to see the flame and even imagine how it would feel. And to such an extent that they could feel it burning them before they have even come within inches of it. Individual conditioned themselves to place the pain before the gain. And since the pain was given higher priority in their minds, they were unable to see beyond it to actually achieve the gains to be made from the exercise.

Had Humpty simply stuck to his plan, he would have gradually changed his habits, thereby literally restructuring his brain. His brains reward-centres would have been rewired to give him a sense of gratification every time he exerted some effort. Instead, he took the easy way out.

In order to rewire a brain, all that's required is its willingness to try something, anything. As long as whatever is being attempted is done consistently, and over a period of three weeks brainwashing's virtually assured. And why? Because the brain loves habit; it thrives on routine. For example, after several workout sessions of leaving the gym and feeling like superman, the brain comes to accept this as the naturally expected outcome of exercising.

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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