![]() ![]() Let me know if you feel the same, or if I am a dick. All I know is that I dread the gym during the NYR wave of people. Or maybe I’m just projecting my own insecurities. Could be that if people want to get fit they should start right away, and shouldn’t wait for the new year. Or that I hate a crowded gym, which is why I go at night. It might be that significantly less than half of people actually keep resolutions and it seems like a waste. It’s just something about people coming in for NYR that bothers me. I hate it when people give me unsolicited advice so I didn’t say anything, and tried not to look so they wouldn’t become uncomfortable.Īll of us understand the struggle and anxiety that comes from being a newbie in the gym. My hunch was proven by watching their squat form on the smith machine. Just last night I was working on bench and a couple walked in who I didn’t recognize, immediately pegged them as NYR people. Logically, I should be happy to see more people taking their health seriously. However, every year I dread the first few weeks of the new year because of all the NYR people in the gym. I do my best to give advice and be encouraging to my friends and family who want to be more serious about their health and fitness. 17 Workout Memes For All The New Years Resolutioners We get that the start of January can be annoying for anyone who's a die-hard gym rat you're just trying to get your workout done as quickly as possible and then you see the swarms of new gym-goers who made a vow to start working out in 2019. It is those habits that, in the end, will ultimately define success.I always love to see people start their personal fitness journeys whether it be running, powerlifting, CrossFit, or calisthenics, etc. Discipline develops confidence and patience.ĭiscipline builds consistency and consistency yields habits. Motivation in and of itself typically fails to build other qualities necessary for advancement, but discipline does. There is another clear line defining the difference between motivation and discipline. You can thank motivation for the first three weeks or so of your successful gym attendance, but after that you need to credit discipline. Discipline means repetitive – and sometimes boring – action. The keys to discipline are practice and consistency. Another way to think of it is having the ability, not necessarily the desire, to do what you need to when you least want to.įailure to get up when the alarm rings, the inability to walk away from a late night of partying before game day or eating a doughnut when you have committed to no processed sugar are all failures of discipline - not motivation. Discipline, as I define it, is the ability to do what is necessary for success when it is hardest to do so. If motivation won’t help you reach your goals, what will? In other words, don’t totally discount the value of motivation, but don’t count on it to last long either because it won’t. Motivation helps with short-term objectives, but is virtually useless for objectives that require a greater length of time to accomplish. When people buy gym memberships, they have the best of intentions in mind, but the commitments are made in a charged emotional state. If someone attempting to get in shape is reliant upon this reaction to propel them towards working out, they are almost sure to burn out, just like with a resolution. Think of it this way: No one can laugh or cry indefinitely, and that is exactly how we know that motivation will fail.Įmotion is a chemical release yielding a physiological response. ![]() But since motivation is based on emotion, it can’t last long. For some, a New Year’s resolution can serve as a motivator. Motivation is driven by emotion and that can be positive, as long as it is used for a short-term objective. But when there is no immediate objective or goal in site, getting up that early is much harder. Personally, I have no issues getting up on a cold and dark morning to train when a competition is drawing near. It took me years of experience and research to figure out why, but I believe she was right. Years back, when I was at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, one of the sports psychologists told me that motivation is a lie. ![]()
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