Human Motivation For Weight Loss And Exercise

If you've made the decision to take off some weight - congratulations! For most, making a commitment to their own health is the most difficult aspect. But even with self-motivation, many people find they do not know what exercises to use for weight loss.

There are three key types of exercise: aerobic exercise, such as running or biking; flexibility exercises, such as yoga and other forms of stretching; and strength training, including bodybuilding.

Aerobic and strength training will help you burn the most calories. Because weight loss depends on either consuming less calories or burning more, it is best to concentrate on these primarily to guarantee your self motivation lasts as you lose weight.

Typically, thirty minutes of aerobic exercise three times a week is ideal. Increase the duration and frequency as you advance.

But many people whose self-motivation has urged them to begin an exercise for weight loss program ignore the importance of strength training. Aerobic exercise burns more calories in the beginning, but weight lifting increases muscle mass, and muscle burns more calories than fat. A pound of muscle needs 35 calories per day to function at rest; a pound of fat needs just two calories for the same function.

The fitness consensus used to say that to "build" muscle, you should perform fewer reps (3-5) at higher weights, and to simply "tone," higher reps (12-15) at lower weights was best. But there's no such thing as "toning." Definition that results from what's wrongly called toning occurs because you have lost the layer of fat covering muscle, making the muscle more visible. The size of the muscle underneath depends on how strenuously you train.

You must "tear down" the muscle so it can rebuild itself afterward. In fact, you do not create muscle while pumping iron but you do in the days afterward when the muscle is "resting." The broad rule for strength training is beginning with three sets of 8-12 reps at a weight that leaves you almost incapable of completing the entire set. Then, rest for 30-60 seconds before starting your next set.

Don't be discouraged if you are not able to do all of the reps on every set. In fact, use that to gauge when to add weight. If you're completing each set without any muscle strain, you will want to add weight.

Self-motivation helped you to begin, but most have difficulty sustaining the pace. It helps understanding that the source of our motivations is a belief. Think about it: If you didn't believe the gnawing sensation in your stomach meant you were hungry, you would not feel motivated to eat.

Figuring out what ideas motivate you is essential to losing weight, because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will exercise without fail. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is a form of hypnosis. And there are NLP techniques that can trigger exercise motivation because, over time, desire to exercise for weight loss alone probably won't be enough to keep you going. Exercise hypnosis motivation therapy can help.

Your primary task is naming the most important things in your life. We call these things your highly valued criteria. Highly valued criteria are typically intangibles: money would not be highly valued criteria, but the freedom, fun, or security that money can provide would be.

Next, establish what you need to believe to feel highly motivated to exercise. It's important to bear in mind that logic has nothing to do with belief. Things do not have to be logical to believe them. You may find you already have a belief that conflicts this new idea. Thats okay.

While understanding what motivates us is valuable, exercise hypnosis motivation therapy can put these ideas to work by ensuring self motivation endures. Hypnosis for motivation does this by changing the computer codes in your brain, so you accept ideas that motivate you.

Belief systems are based in our unconscious mind, which is like a computer. Computers do not have the ability to reason. The input controls the output. The techniques used in exercise hypnosis motivation therapy can make you believe nearly anything, as long as you're willing to believe.

You start by making a picture in your mind that illustrates something you already believe, such as, "I love my children." Then you learn to calibrate the elements or 'Submodalities' of that mental belief picture.

Next, you make a mental movie that illustrates your motivational idea. Let's say your motivational idea is, "If I exercise, then I'll look great and my marriage will get better." Then you learn how to alter the Submodalities of this mental image to match with the Submodalities in your calibrated belief picture. On the other hand, if a belief is holding you back, the same technique can change that belief to doubt.

Self hypnosis for motivation that incorporates NLP can provide you with something of an internal personal motivator. Using an exercise hypnosis motivation program ensures that the zeal you started with stays until reaching your objective, and then helps you maintain that objective.