The First Of The Year Is Coming
The first of the year will soon be here. That is the time that most of us believe to be right for new starts. This is the time when we resolve to start a fitness lifestyle, kicking off the new year as we ought; or so we think.
For most of us this means losing unwanted weight. With an ever-increasing number of overweight individuals, this is an even larger number than ever before. Doing something to correct that is on a significant number of minds.
For a much smaller number of others, the first of the year is a time for getting back into an athletic groove, Possibly this is like the one we were in during high school years. Most likely it means signing up at a club for regular laps of the pool or a full scale body building routine. But, those of this latter group are most often inclined to just get right to it. They do not need to wait until the auspicious day after New Year's day to do something that they know will make them feel and look better than they currently do.
What is the difference between the two groups? What is it about weight loss folks that causes the need for so much ceremony? Why do they have to wait for the first of the year when they all know that starting now is the best thing to do? Is it really that much harder than getting back into a set weight routine or to a certain consistent number of daily laps to make everything go so much better?
Whether one is involved in getting more fit or in losing excess weight, the dynamics are the same. One must be into proper diet, adequate supplementation and systematic physical training (workouts). For both groups, these are the factors which are necessary for reaching desired goals. In other words, the athletic group has it the same as does the weight loss group.
Nevertheless, it can be argued that the athletic group has it worse. That is because these folks know only too well that others whom they emulate are so much better--so much vastly better. One cannot lift weights without thinking about Arnold Schwarzeneggar, or train as a swimmer without thinking about the accomplishments of Michael Phelps or Dara Torres.Comparing oneself to people like this is extra-ordinarily painful. Knowing how much work it must have taken to attain these ends oftentimes is overwhelming.
Where then is the problem? The average person who simply wants to be twenty pounds less has only to see how they look in the mirror. What is that in comparison to the struggles of a peerless champion?True as that may be it is of little help to the weight loss people.
Perhaps too these folks find themselves engaged seemingly endless fat checks for excess around the waist line, or incessant agony over jeans which just may no longer be ones they can still get into. Can these experiences be worse than realizing that one may simply never be a Phelps or a Torres?
More than likely, they are; and perhaps this is the cause of the difference between the two groups. The weight loss person has only him or herself to look at and experience, whereas the athlete has peerless champions to emulate. Could it be that focusing on a champion is easier on one one than simply looking in the mirror?
Most probably this is so. As painful as it may be to have a one hundred yard freestyle that is well over a minute, it is still is by far less hampering than looking in the mirror only to see fat where there may have been a washboard long ago--one which is now invisible. As a result the weight loss person is too much in throes of depression to simply decide that today is the day to start doing what he or she knows that she must.
Therefore, the best decision is to emulate the athletic people. For those in the wight loss group it means literally taping a large picture of a favorite fitness hero or heroine in the middle of their bathroom mirror.
Doing so, the weight loss person may indeed find the necessary equalizer. If they do so, these people should find it easier to start today. And, that means right now in stead of a few crucial weeks later, after all of the Christmas goodies. Those will make it even harder, if not impossible, for one to be successful with his or her New Year's resolutions.
For further thought on the best motivation for an ongoing fitness lifestyle order my book Think and Grow Fit.
For most of us this means losing unwanted weight. With an ever-increasing number of overweight individuals, this is an even larger number than ever before. Doing something to correct that is on a significant number of minds.
For a much smaller number of others, the first of the year is a time for getting back into an athletic groove, Possibly this is like the one we were in during high school years. Most likely it means signing up at a club for regular laps of the pool or a full scale body building routine. But, those of this latter group are most often inclined to just get right to it. They do not need to wait until the auspicious day after New Year's day to do something that they know will make them feel and look better than they currently do.
What is the difference between the two groups? What is it about weight loss folks that causes the need for so much ceremony? Why do they have to wait for the first of the year when they all know that starting now is the best thing to do? Is it really that much harder than getting back into a set weight routine or to a certain consistent number of daily laps to make everything go so much better?
Whether one is involved in getting more fit or in losing excess weight, the dynamics are the same. One must be into proper diet, adequate supplementation and systematic physical training (workouts). For both groups, these are the factors which are necessary for reaching desired goals. In other words, the athletic group has it the same as does the weight loss group.
Nevertheless, it can be argued that the athletic group has it worse. That is because these folks know only too well that others whom they emulate are so much better--so much vastly better. One cannot lift weights without thinking about Arnold Schwarzeneggar, or train as a swimmer without thinking about the accomplishments of Michael Phelps or Dara Torres.Comparing oneself to people like this is extra-ordinarily painful. Knowing how much work it must have taken to attain these ends oftentimes is overwhelming.
Where then is the problem? The average person who simply wants to be twenty pounds less has only to see how they look in the mirror. What is that in comparison to the struggles of a peerless champion?True as that may be it is of little help to the weight loss people.
Perhaps too these folks find themselves engaged seemingly endless fat checks for excess around the waist line, or incessant agony over jeans which just may no longer be ones they can still get into. Can these experiences be worse than realizing that one may simply never be a Phelps or a Torres?
More than likely, they are; and perhaps this is the cause of the difference between the two groups. The weight loss person has only him or herself to look at and experience, whereas the athlete has peerless champions to emulate. Could it be that focusing on a champion is easier on one one than simply looking in the mirror?
Most probably this is so. As painful as it may be to have a one hundred yard freestyle that is well over a minute, it is still is by far less hampering than looking in the mirror only to see fat where there may have been a washboard long ago--one which is now invisible. As a result the weight loss person is too much in throes of depression to simply decide that today is the day to start doing what he or she knows that she must.
Therefore, the best decision is to emulate the athletic people. For those in the wight loss group it means literally taping a large picture of a favorite fitness hero or heroine in the middle of their bathroom mirror.
Doing so, the weight loss person may indeed find the necessary equalizer. If they do so, these people should find it easier to start today. And, that means right now in stead of a few crucial weeks later, after all of the Christmas goodies. Those will make it even harder, if not impossible, for one to be successful with his or her New Year's resolutions.
For further thought on the best motivation for an ongoing fitness lifestyle order my book Think and Grow Fit.
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