Exercise is something we all need to do. But it may not go correctly all the time. We might start - feel we’re getting nowhere and then just give up. When that happens, what we need is a bit of remotivation.
We need to do something that’ll make us get up and get back on the exercise path. Sometimes remotivation happens spontaneously when we just have the urge to exercise. Sometimes the worst needs to happen to us - we put on weight and no longer look like our ideal weight. Sometimes we just have to have some near-death experience to start rebuilding our ideal life. Sometimes a simple stock take on our life and ideal look is all it takes.
Here are three steps:-
1. Take stock of where you are. Answer questions such as how do you look now and is it how you wish to look? Where do you want to lose weight? Where do you want to gain weight? Where do you want to build muscles? What have you done so far and how do you look?
2. Devise some realistic goals. Within 4-6 months, where do you want to see yourself? Where do you see the muscles and what do you look like? How healthy are you and what does it feel like?
3. Come up with creative ways to achieve those goals. Make a list of things you could do, have or be in order to get remotivated with your health and fitness goals.
Here are three ideas to pick yourself up again:
- Set up a reward system. Come up with BIG rewards - rewards that will literally blow you away like a big vacation, a shopping spree, a weekend away, a spa retreat, whatever it is that takes your fancy. Give yourself these rewards once you reach a particular milestone that you set.
- WHY. Answer the why for your goals and you’ll have bigger emotional wants to get up and take action. That’s what Tony Robbins says: come up with as many reasons as you can for wanting to achieve your goals.
- Create your fitness playlist. I like how iTunes have created fitness playlists so you could download them and listen through them when you’re exercising.
译文:
重燃你的小宇宙：给无法坚持健身的朋友们一点建议
虽然锻炼身体对每个人来说都是必要的。但是要一直坚持下去可没那么容易。也许在一开始我们就感到力不从心，紧接着就只好放弃。每到这个时候，我们就需要施事一点小伎俩，以帮助自己重燃斗志。
我们需要做一些能事，好激励自己再一次踏上锻炼的征程。有时候当我们内心有一种紧迫感时，就会自发地产生锻炼的动力。有时候最糟糕的事情发生了——我们的不仅发胖而且体态臃肿，随之而来的减肥需求迫使我们开始锻炼。有时候我们锻炼只是因为想经历浴火重生的感觉，从而重新开始一种健康的美好生活。有时候我们简单地回顾过去，发现岁月夺走了我们曾经理想的外表，于是一种重回年轻的冲动使我们开始了锻炼。
下面的三个步骤，将助你重新燃起锻炼的激情：
1. 记录下你现在的情况。你可以通过回答一些问题来判断自己目前的身体状况，比如你现在看起来怎么样？你想要自己变成什么样子？你想让身上的哪些部分瘦下来？又有哪些部分是你想变结实的？为了实现这些愿望，你又做了点什么呢？
2. 制定一些现实的目标。在4到6个月的时间内，你希望看到自己有哪些变化？你身上有哪里长出了肌肉，有了肌肉的你看上去怎么样？你有多健康？健康令你感觉怎么样？
3. 多想出一些能保持自己锻炼激情的办法。你可以列出一张单子，把所有你觉得能鼓励自己坚持锻炼的方法都写在上面。
以下就是能帮你重新振作的三个办法：
建立一个奖励机制。可以适时地给自己来些“大”奖励 —— 那些可以让你兴奋上老半天的奖励，比如一次悠长假期，一次疯狂购物，一次周末狂欢，一次温泉疗养，任何一件让你着迷的事情都能成为候选的对象。
多问问自己“为什么”。经常问自己“我为什么要锻炼”，这样可以帮助你不断地回忆起当初的目标，从而你会更有动力。就像Tony Robbins说的那样：为了实现自己的目标，你应该想出各种理由来说服自己，越多越好。
创造一个健身歌曲播放列表。我非常欣赏iTunes创建的健身歌曲列表，你可以下载那些歌曲然后边健身边把它们听个遍。