Keep Yourself Motivated to Maximize Your Workout Sessions

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By Warren Reidhead
Probably the hardest thing we have to overcome while doing our workouts while we are on our fitness or weight loss program is the tendency to lose momentum because of boredom. Even though we know that the workout is going to benefit us; we still need to get past the tendency to put the workout off until tomorrow. Here are a few tips that might help to keep you motivated and to maximize your workout sessions.

*Redefine your goals. You need to set realistic goals; both short term and long term. Think about setting up workout goals as well as physical improvements that you want to see.

Your physical goal might be to lose one to two pounds a week; while your workout goal might be to run a mile in less than 8 or 10 minutes. Another example is that you might push yourself to do 100 pushups or sit ups. By pushing yourself to achieve both physical and workout mile posts you can push yourself to achieve your mini goals and this will help keep you motivated.

*Listen to some music while you are working out or running. This will help because you can keep time with the tempo of the music so be sure to play upbeat music.

*Get yourself a workout buddy. Just the companionship will help make the workout periods more fun. This will also help because your friend can push you when you are feeling down and you can do the same for your buddy when he wants to slack off.

*Take care of yourself and avoid injury. Make sure you warm up, stretch and cool down in a proper fashion. The worst thing you can do is injure yourself and have to take the time to recover.

*Keep a record and track your progress. Just by entering and looking at the progress you are making to reach your goal will keep that fire burning. When setting your goals make sure they are achievable; there is nothing worse than constantly falling short of what you want to achieve.

*Be proud of what you achieve. When you come right down to it; you only have to be true to yourself. As long as you are striving to reach your long term goals and you do not quit; you can take pride in what you are doing. Be the best that you can be; you cannot ask any more than that.

I hope that these few tips will help you and will spark your creativity to find other ways to keep yourself enthusiastic about pushing yourself to success. Be sure to share any tips you might find in your quest to be the best.

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p/s:hari nih mahu melihat2 gym kat uitm..yuhuuu..