Mental Attitude for training.
To get the best out of your training every time you prepare to train, make sure you have cleared your mind of all the negative.
Having a clear mind and letting go of daily stress will help you preform better in your training session.
We've all heard that stress is one of the leading causes for heart
attack and stroke but many of us never really think about what else
it's doing to our bodies. Just because your heart is functioning as it
should does not mean you are not effected by the stress.
Stress
produces cortisol and cortisol helps fat stay right where it's at and
locks up fat loss. Stress also causes hypertension, and elevated blood
pressure especially during resistance exercise is very dangerous.
Recent studies have also shown that stress reduces the production of
ATP within the Mitochondria of the cells and limits your anaerobic
endurance. Reduced levels of ATP will make your training session a real
struggle. Cortisol also slows down the healing process and can bring on
symptoms of over-training and cause disruptive sleep patterns making it
even more difficult to train properly.
So when you walk into the gym make sure you take a moment and clear your head of daily stress and focus on the job at hand.
The truth be told, the stress you created is all in your head and only you can allow it to consume you or LET IT GO!
I highly recommend reading a book by Dr. Wayne Dyer entitled,
"There's a Spiritual Solution for Every Problem". This book has
nothing to do with religion, it simply tells you how to let go of the
stress that is effecting your life.
Remember being fit in the
gym is just 1/3 of being totally fit. Remember to exercise the mind and
spirit as well. You are only as strong as your weakest link.
Stress is a Choice and so is Success!
Many of us hurry through life going from one place to the next, focused
on conquering the next mountain, making the next deal, running the next
errand, and believing we will never have enough time to do
all the things we need to get done. Yet, there is all the time in the
world if we just realize that we are the creators of this life we choose
to live. That's right. Life is a series of choices and being free from
stress is one of those choices.
Whether your business life is
overly complicated or your personal life (or both), you have chosen this
current system of chaos. The world is a tantalizing swirl of getting
the next "fix," tempting us to fit more and more things, people and
processes into our lives, personally and professionally. And because we
are so busy being busy, it's easy to be lured into the fray, with our
lengthy to-do lists. Yet, the greatest achievements have often come from
the simplest of ideas and in the simplest forms.
To experience
a simplified life, we first have to learn to slow down long enough to
see through all the clutter. We need to realize that we are powerful
magnets that attracted this life to ourselves—no matter what—good or
bad.
1. Take the time to be YOU! Everyone needs (ME) time. If
you don't take care of the ME, how can you expect anyone else to do it
for you. The better you are to yourself the better you will be to
others.
2. Stop setting deadlines that can not be met. Setting
unrealistic goals will cause more stress and disruption in life. Learn
to follow your dreams without setting a time frame around them. Stay
focused on the end result regardless of the time frame it took to get
there. The only way you can fail is to set an unrealistic goal, so learn
to let the time structure go! Remember good things come to those who
wait.
3. Turn on that positive energy! Learn to be grateful!
Create a gratitude list. Make a list of things you are grateful to have
in your life. Feeling gratitude puts you in the right frame of mind and
will allow you to move forward in a positive direction. Focus on the
stress and that is exactly what you will get more of and that's STRESS!
4. Exercise can and will relieve STRESS.
Get into an exercise program and stick with it! Exercise is often the
best medicine for getting rid of stress. Do your best to clear your head
of anything else but taking care of the ME. Exercise to clear your head
and rid yourself of the stress you've created.
5. You can
focus on negative or you can focus on the positive the choice is 100% up
to YOU! The energy you put out is the exact energy you will receive.
Learn to be a positive person thankful for the blessings in your life
and understand that time frames are the trigger points for stress. Rid
yourself of as many time frames as you can and your stress levels will
go away.
Learn to be grateful, learn to enjoy the simple things
in life learn to look at life as a big learning experience and the
stress in your life may very well disappear. The only time you fail at
anything is when you give up! Success can and will happen every time
without fail it just might not be in your time frame. So stop setting
them and watch you stress vanish!
Remember you are only as strong as your weakest link. A complete person is strong of Mind, Body and Spirit.
