Normally when someone decides to start body sculpting or in general improving his or her health, he or she pursues it earnestly and successfully for a time but then usually eventually gives it up completely.
Sometimes the person will consider the venture a failure, but typically he or she comes up with a list of reasons for why he or she quit. But it doesn’t matter how the person classifies it; the fact is that no matter how many protein bars and shakes he or she consumes, nothing can replace the motivation to just do the work of working out.
Perhaps you’ve done this yourself. You started an intense work-out program and stuck to it for a few weeks, but then other things crept in to your schedule and replaced the new fitness regimen. It was easy to claim all sorts of excuses for why you didn’t have time to sculpt your muscles anymore.
But the real reason? It’s all mental.
Your mental decision process operates on two levels: rational and emotional. Body sculptors often commit to the practice on both levels; they commit emotionally when they imagine what it will be like to be completely ripped, and they commit rationally when they think about the positive health effects and what it will take to achieve their goals. At this initial decision stage, it’s easy for athletes to commit to working out on a regular basis.
But every day brings another decision and tests the bodybuilder’s resolve. Each time you pick up weights, it’s a choice. Each time you wake up in the morning, you have to decide between working out or sleeping in, getting some work done or spending time on family.
And it always gets harder after one, two, or three weeks. This is because the workout regimen no longer feels like a novelty; you’ve invested serious time in your fitness by this point and you expect to see results. But large results never come after only a week, and rarely come after just three.
Your emotional side loses its momentum and cares less and less about the goal that seems farther away than ever, and your rational side turns against you and makes you doubt whether your goal was feasible in the first place. The trick, then, is to simply press on; persevere. If you can make it past these first few weeks and commit, really commit to your goal in a long-term way, you’ll succeed at it.
And that goes for body sculpting as much as anything else.
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