The Big Tough Question...
This entry was posted on 1/11/2012 7:06 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
What do you want from your exercise? Not an easy question answer...sure the basic "I want to tone up" or "I want to lose weight" answers usually pop up, but that is hardly ever the REAL reason people exercise. That is one of the benefits, to be sure, but what do you want from your exercise?
When we ask clients and prospects this question, they usually struggle for an answer...they want to tell us what they think WE want to hear...but not necessarily what THEY want to say.
As far as what we want from our exercise? Simple. We want to give our body a reason (and a stimulus) to change something. That's it. Plain and simple.
We want our body to think that it has to make a muscle a little stronger, or work more efficiently, or be able to endure more work before it gets tired. We want to make sure we feed our body exactly what it needs to meet its' energy demands, and we want to exceed those demands and force our body to look elsewhere for the energy to accomplish it. We want our body to become efficient by looking at stored bodyfat to supplement the energy consumption. Does that help simplify things?
Think about it when you head out to your next workout...what message do you want to send to your body? that it is just going through the motions? That you just need to move around a little so you won't feel guilty about not tracking your eating like you thought you would? Do you want it to break a little sweat?
Or do you want it to think that it is THIS close to being the efficient machine you need it to be...and that it has to learn through small but significant struggles and effort that it is capable of more than it thought it was yesterday...and who knows what wwe may think of it tomorrow?
