Workout Wednesday
Exercise is a form of physical activity that is planned, structured, repetitive, and performed with the goal of improving health or fitness.
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Fitness Friday
You can strength-train by doing basic exercises that use your body weight as resistance (e.g., push-ups, sit-ups, squats, lunges).
Movement Monday
People who want to lose a substantial amount of weight need a high amount of physical activity unless they also reduce their caloric intake.
Transformation Tuesday
I actively seek the company of happy people.
Fitness Friday
Whatever your favorite cardio activity, remember that strength-training should be part of your exercise mix.
Workout Wednesday
Pilates strengthens the core muscles by developing your pelvic and abs stability zones and improving muscle and joint flexibility.
Tips for Staying With Any Exercise or Self-Improvement Program, Once You Have Started
So you have started an exercise program for a while now. You liked the fact that you have, at least, after all, started. You felt good that you have started but are unsure how to make it a lasting endeavor. You are fearful that you might not continue for a long time.
You might have started before and stopped and you are concerned that you might repeat your past failures. Not this time, though. Read more
Negative Thoughts And Motivation
Everyone experience negative thoughts and anyone that tells you that you can eradicate them completely is lying. There are so many things that can lead to negative thinking. If you are having financial problems for example, then this is very likely to start a spiral of negative thinking.
People have different ways of approaching adversity. Some people will face their problems and throw their shoulders back to drive them forward. Other people will take the opposite approach and will just slump around in a lethargic way and think even more negative thoughts about their problem. Read more
What Is Motivation?
Motivation is a state of mind. It can be there one minute and gone the next. There is an internal process that creates motivation. All of us have a degree of motivation within us and we can use a number of techniques to increase it and make it last longer.
When an individual taps into their motivation they can drive themselves forward with renewed energy. The best way to define motivation is that it is a source of internal energy that provides a person with the drive to achieve specific goals. It influences the behavior of a person. Read more
Every Challenge is Doable if You Chop it Down to Size
It’s very easy to get so worried about the challenge facing you that you just freeze up and quit. It’s very easy to get discouraged. It’s very easy to feel that your problem is so big and so scary that there’s really no way you can get out from under it.
You might as well just give up. You might as well lose all hope. If any of these enter your frame of mind, you are simply just taking the path of least resistance. You’re looking at the situation from the perspective of somebody who wants to do the least work.
If you are serious about coming out on top and achieving unstoppable victory, every challenge does not have to be scary. Every challenge does not have to have the potential of crushing you and stealing your dreams.
Instead, if you have the right mindset, every challenge is actually going to be an opportunity. Think about it. If you are faced with a challenge that really pushes you back against the wall and incentivizes you to step up your problem-solving skills, what do you think will happen?
That’s right. Your natural imagination, resourcefulness, and creativity are triggered. You figure out a way. If you can’t get through the front door, you will try the roof. If the roof doesn’t work, you try the basement. If the basement is blocked off for whatever reason, you will try the side door. If that doesn’t work, then you will try the back door.
If today is not an option, then you will try tomorrow. If that is off limits, then you will try the next day. In other words, you challenge yourself to become a more competent person all around by tackling every challenge you come across.
One of the most powerful revelations you could ever realize is that every challenge is doable if you chop it down to size. Every challenge actually has many different moving parts. If you pick these apart and you attack one piece at a time in many different sequences, chances are you will achieve a breakthrough.
If anything, you become a different person as you go through this problem-solving process. This is what a lot of people miss out on. They’re always looking for the short cut or, worse yet, they’re waiting for somebody to pull them out of their situation because they have completely given up on coming up with a solution of their own.
