As this is one of the most asked question how do I stay disciplined toward my workout, how do I stay consistent, why I stop doing exercise after sometimes. Today here we talk about some points what are those things that make you break your workout routine consistency and how to eliminate them to stay disciplined.
- Think as if it is an important daily task like brushing your teeth: Well it’s all about how much you give importance to your workout . You should be given your workout a priority , like 15 min workout should be as much as important as brushing your teeth, taking shower or having my meal! Yeah I’m talking about 15 mins workout only . In starting you should start with baby steps like 15 min cardio or 15 mins calesthenics or 15 mins yoga.
- Never overdo your exercises: When we start our gym or any workout as beginner we start getting good results as our testosterone hits in starting period by which we get motivated and start overdoing exercise and after few days of rigourous hard training our body start getting fatigue. And then a time reach when we stop working out because we get so much exhausted or sometimes we get sick as Rollie Coleman used to say take baby steps. You should adhere to plans that are meant for you that doesn’t mean you should not break your limits we’ll talk about this later.
- Challenge your limits: I know you people are confused as I told in previous point don’t over do your exercise now I am saying challenge your limits, yeah you are right. You should challenge your limit . Now how you gonna achieve this I’ll tell you. I’ll take an example of powerlifting athlete. They don’t overdo there exercise but they Progressively overload there exercise day by day and test there limits in last week. In the same way you should progressively overload or in case of bodyweight exercise progressively increase effort to level up your strength and studies have shown when you perform more strength exercises and achieve more, your body release more Endorphines ( happy hormones) and that’s how you urge to go to gym more often then before.
- Never get demoralized with others: Often people get demoralized with opinions of other people specially beginner who are mostly fat or thin weak people try to avoid there opinion , understand you are doing thongs right, you standing for yourself and you cant afford anyone else to decide who you are click here to see my post on insecurity people face in gym.
- Try to find gym buddies: When you find people like you either in gym or in ground for other exercise try to talk to them and make them friends that’s how you’ll be able to learn from them so does they could from you and just like any friend home your gym or your workout spot will be interesting. You’ll notice there are lot of people from you can learn so much stuff. Try to avoid stupid, egotist and people who used to talk more often than workout as they will deteriorate your plans. Try to find motivating and learners around you.
- Find your goals: Thats one of the most important thing that I personally feel people lack and that’s why they won’t able to remain consistent toward there workout plans. People don’t have goals they go to gym and drift from one place to other without any goal. You should have some goal that I want to run a marathon, that I want have good physique or I want to lift heavy like powerlifter. Try to think that you have to compete in that specific gym discipline this could be anything from cycling to bodybuilding, running to powerlifting, or swimming to arm wrestling competition. These goals give you motivation to stay at your workout and actually make you see that where you standing right now and make you work more instead of thinking to leave and stop workout.
- Regaining from disease or injury:When people get injured or get sick they stop working out as a result they lose there consistency. I’m not saying you should continue as rest is important when you sick or injured but people get demoralized with the degrading of there physique and strength that they think it’s hard to come back to the level they achieve previously. Well believe it or not your body react more better and start learning more faster and you regain more fast after a disease and injury then before as all the exercises you done before is in there in your muscle memory it won’t take you more than couple of weeks to regain major part of your physique and strength. And you’ll realise you are gaining more faster then before.
Well these are some things from people usually go through due to which they won’t remain consistent and apart from this people should work on there laziness and stay out of there comfort zone if they want to remain consistent, at least do 15 min workout, always remember consistency is the key.
Strength Science India 