Fat Loss And Muscle Building - Third Piece Of The Puzzle By Jon Allmark At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

When talking about exercising to burn fat or build muscle, people talk about the importance of the workout itself and the dieting aspect that goes with it. There is no doubt that these two aspects are vital and equally as important as each other for losing fat or building muscle, but there is also another part which is required for success, which in my opinion is never mentioned enough.

So what is this hardly mentioned third piece of the puzzle? What I’m talking about is the mental aspect of training. There are two main parts of this that are extremely important, these are what I like to call the pre-gym mindset and the in the gym mindset.

The pre-gym mindset is the preparation before a workout. The first thing you need to do is actually get yourself to the gym. This may sound like a strange statement to make, but it is so easy after a long day at work to decide that you don’t feel like doing your workout, or think to yourself that you’ll ‘do it tomorrow’ or ‘miss it just this once’. For success with fat loss or muscle building, you need to develop positive habits, once you start missing the odd training session here and there, the regularity of your whole training will fall apart. You need to consistently train to get the best results. Get yourself into a routine of getting to the gym and completing every workout that you have scheduled in. Training at the same time of day will help develop a routine, and your brain will get used to this. Eventually you will have trained your brain with these positive habits and going to the gym will be as normal as brushing your teeth in the morning and at night, it will just become a normal part of your daily routine.

In the gym mindset is what you need to complete a productive workout. Having a positive attitude in the gym and developing the ability to push yourself in your workout is essential. If you go into the gym and lift weights half hearted, or end your 30 minute run after 20 minutes, just because you’ve had enough or are tired, you will never get the results you are after. Look at elite athletes in any field, they will push themselves to their absolute limit, and the results will show in their performances. If you want to get the body that you desire, whether that means putting on pounds of muscle or losing pounds of fat, you must have the right mental attitude in your workouts. Force yourself to push out those extra reps on your weights. Try and go through your pain barrier (by this I mean normal workout pain, not injury pain) after all it is the last few reps that produce the most muscle growth. Set yourself mini goals in the gym, aim for a target weight you want to lift and try to achieve that goal. If you constantly push and challenge yourself, you will find your workouts a lot more fun, and more productive. Keep this up for long enough and you can completely change the way your mind thinks, acts and responds to exercise.

You will find that developing and improving yourself mentally will bring you the results that you want. It will also spill over into other areas, such as helping you stick to your diet, and avoid going back to any unhealthy habits that you may have had.

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