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Fitness Success and Staying Motivated
Count Down To Fitness Success And Keep Your Motivation Drive Alive
Copyright Tom Venuto
There are many fantastic ways to get focused and motivated to begin a diet or
exercise program, but often the most difficult thing to do is keep that drive
and ambition alive for more than a few weeks and see your goal through to
completion.
Within just weeks of starting, many people have already hit their first snag or
setback, and as a result, have slipped backwards in the mental focus and
motivation department. Setting goals in writing is an essential step to success,
but how do you stay focused on them? One technique I have used ever since my
very first bodybuilding competition 18 years ago, is...
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The "contest countdown calendar."
I have used it ever since, through 28 competitions and it will work for you too,
for any fitness goal. I purchase a desk or wall calendar - the type that shows
each week stretching horizontally across the page with an open block of space
for each day.
After I set my goal and place a deadline on it, I do NOT stop there. I take out
my calendar and start counting backwards from my target goal deadline to the
present day.
T-minus 117 days....
T-minus 116 days...
T-minus 115 days....
I also fill in my workouts for the entire 3-4 month period, which is the typical
length I allow for my mid-range goals like contest prep. You would be shocked -
pleasantly so - just how focused this keeps you. Even better still, you get MORE
and MORE motivated with each passing day you countdown because the deadline is
getting closer
Deadlines are absolutely critical to your success. Little gets done without
deadlines.
There is a saying in management and psychology that "work will always expand to
fill the time allowed for its completion."
Remember term papers in school? When you were given a term paper assignment and
you had the entire semester to do it, did you run home that first night and get
crankin on it?
How about after a week? Two weeks? A month? TWO MONTHS? Probably not, eh?
If you're like most people, you put it off until the last minute and you barely
got it turned in on time. In fact, there are always a few people who pull all
nighters the night before!
Alas, the power of the deadline!
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In your fitness endeavors, if you don't have IMPENDING deadlines that give you
that twinge in your stomach that says "take action now, or else!" then you find
it very easy to say to yourself, ' I have plenty of time so this one cheat meal
doesn't matter... it doesn't make much difference at this point if I skip this
one workout... I have time to make it up..."
And then, just like the term paper, you are scrambling at the last minute to
reach your weight goal. But in the case of your body, the consequences are more
severe and painful than just a bad grade or late penalty.
Inevitably, you succumb to crash dieting and overtraining or other unhealthy
fast-weight-loss madness, which eats up your own muscle like a hungry cannibal
and sends you spiraling into the dark pit of metabolic damage and the inevitable
plateau and weight gain that follow.
But the solution is so simple: Count your way down to success!
Don't stop with setting goals. Set deadlines on your goals. Then put your goal
countdown on paper, review your goals every single day, AND know, every single
day, how many days there are until your target goal date. You will stay more
consciously focused and even better, your unconscious mind will go to work for
you in keeping you motivated, on track, and on schedule. You'll come in for a
landing on your goal deadline date like a fighter pilot landing on an aircraft
carrier.
I just did my countdown calendar earlier this week... T minus 117 days til my
next bodybuilding competition, and thanks to this simple but powerful technique,
I'm already focused like a laser beam and have been making steady progress
without so much as a hiccup...
Don't under-estimate this simple technique... Give it an honest test... because
it's often the simplest motivational techniques that are the most powerful of
all!
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About the Author
Tom Venuto is an NSCA-certified personal trainer, certified
strength and conditioning specialist, lifetime natural bodybuilder,
and author of the #1 best-selling e-book "Burn the
Fat, Feed The Muscle" (BFFM). Tom has written over
170 articles and has been featured in IRONMAN Magazine,
Natural Bodybuilding, Muscular Development, Muscle-Zine,
Olympian’s News (in Italian), Exercise for Men and
Men’s Exercise. For information on Tom's "Burn
The Fa Feed the Musclet" e-book, click
here
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