The gym as a place of change.
The gym as a place of change.
Change your mind, change your body.
A lot of people view the gym as a “place” where they go to either lose weight, gain muscle or fix an ailment.
The gym is all of that and more.
The toughest aspect of getting results with anyone is changing their mind. That means changing their beliefs, attitudes, habits and overall mentality. Before any meaningful results are attained change must happen.
The gym is not a “place” that you go to work out any more than a church is a place you go to worship. People go to church to be around like minded individuals who all believe in a common theme and to attempt to illicit a change in their attitudes, i.e. be better than who they are right now.
The gym is a place that you go to change what needs to change in order for you to reach the results you want to attain. The gym is a place you go to in order to better yourself. You should strive to lift more weight and/or to do more work in the same amount or less time than your last work out. You should always try and push yourself in the gym.
Because quite simply, if you cannot push yourself in the gym and you cannot use the gym or view the gym as a catalyst for change then you will never be able to push yourself away from the dinner table, or push that extra serving of garlic french fries away or force yourself to drink a little bit more water because you know that ice cold water raises metabolism by 24% after you drink it.
If you do not embrace the gym as a place for change, you will never embrace change in your body and welcome it into your soul.
Remember:
The discomfort of exercise releases the discomfort of stress.
The intensity of exercise releases the intensity of stress.
The focus required for proper nutrition choices helps to reinforce the focus needed to maintain your results.
Results are a culmination of intensity in the gym and focus on your diet.
And that intensity and focus require you to CHANGE your BELIEFS.
