You Will Never Realize Your Beginners Yoga Orange County CA Training Goals Without Visualizing Them First

By Carol Rogers


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.

Without rapidly made improvements to their physiques, most people are quick to throw in the towel and call it a day. Yet, the opposite also stands true: should they manage to achieve the body of their dreams, and in record time too, they're just as likely to quit at that point as the person in the first example who had not managed to make any real progress.

Because it takes most people at least 14 days of continuous effort to establish a new habit for themselves. So, lacking the motivation, for whatever reasons, should they become side-tracked from their objectives before reaching the summit of habit, not only are they likely to quit the new activity, but will be much less likely to even attempt similar activities in future.

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.

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.

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?

Simply visualizing the intended outcome would have inspired enough motivation to overcome, and endure, any temporary discomfort encountered. Keeping one's eye on the prize is simply a means to an end. Professional athletes do it. Navy Seals do it. Successful businessman, do it. Even goddesses of victory like Nike and just do it. So why does not the average person simply do it? The short answer, it requires some discipline. And perhaps only a couple weeks of it before it becomes habit. Easy enough for the superior man, but for the average person, it can be a bit of a chore.

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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