How to Overcome Fitness Challenges?
The phobia of starting a fitness plan is one of the fitness challenges that should be overcome. This phobia is also deeply related to the mind barrier.
Summarizing the fitness plan to cope with these challenges will conclude our discussion.
Difficulty in starting a fitness plan:
It is uncommon for fitness only, but starting any task is difficult. Once you have started, you will definitely ace it.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
Before initiating a fitness plan, always think of the end product or the level of fitness you will achieve after doing so much hard work.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Guidance should be taken from coaches to overcome fitness challenges. Not only will they guide you on how to start, but they will also motivate you to become a fitness freak.
Lack of Time:
Time is the only thing that can’t be purchased. We waste hours on screens every day just scrolling. Only one hour per day is enough for physical activity. After physical activity, dopamine levels increase, elevating your mood.
Countless fitness-tracking apps have been developed to alert individuals to their fitness schedules. These apps are fruitful for individuals who want to set a fitness routine.
Workout Phobia:
The following statements can represent this phobia;
- Gymtimidation(Gym Anxiety)
- Exercise is too inconvenient for me
- My body will ache after a workout
- I’ll be tired after a workout
- I’ll feel embarrassed while doing easy exercises in the gym
- I’ve no partner who will assist me during a workout
Way Forward to Overcome Fitness Challenges!
1. Take Professional Guidance:
As mentioned above, fitness mentors will take a tour to kick-start your fitness journey. Without a professional mentor, you can start driven by your motivation, but you will be doing physical workouts in an asymmetrical way.
Most of the injuries observed in the gym are due to incorrect methods of doing a particular exercise.
2. Keep a Partner:
Whenever starting a fitness plan, always try to keep a partner. Both of you will assist each other in the workout. But if your partner is not interested in doing the exercise, first you have to motivate him/her to cooperate.
Fitness challenges can only be surmounted if the individual is persistent. For instance, if one of the partners has lost faith in the gym, the other partner will surely boost his motivation.
As per latest research, when one spouse engages in physical, the other becomes 5 times more active.
3. Always Start with the Basics:
Fitness challenges can only be surmounted if you do not tire yourself at the start. Most of the youngster leave their plan at the beginning because they feel they are fed up.
Muscle memory builds day by day not overnight. Individuals who participate in bodybuilding championship have devoted their whole life.
4. Listen to the Motivational lectures:
Whenever you visit the gym, motivational pictures hang everywhere. Motivational videos used to be played on gym TV. There are many famous YouTube channels where you can watch fitness motivation videos.
Keep a target to at least learn one fitness trick daily either through videos or by reading articles.
5. Appreciate Yourself:
Appreciating oneself is one of the most beautiful traits that an individual might possess.
After a workout, appreciate yourself for being one of the few around you who are taking care of their physical well-being.
It is the beauty of physical exertion, after which you automatically feel mentally and physically strong. This is because of Serotonin, Dopamine, and Nor-Epinephrine that mediate parasympathetic response and elevate mood.
6. Say 'No' to 'Luxury Foods':
Fast food and junk food culture is prevailing in our Elite and Middle Class. Not only it damages your physical standards, but also gives birth to many more diseases.
Obesity is the mother of all diseases which is more common in our higher and middle socioeconomic background. A balanced nutrition is the key to success when a person is simultaneously setting a fitness goal.
Learn more about Essential Nutrition.
7. Benefit is all 'Yours':
Once you have learned that you will be the only person who will benefit after overcoming fitness challenges, then you are successful!
The hard work of others will not benefit you at all, it’s you and your struggle that will pay off.
Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
Arnold Schwarzenegger