Exercise To Lose Weight And Hypnosis For Motivation
If you have made the decision to get some weight off – congratulations! For most, making a commitment to their own good health is the hardest step. But even with self-motivation, many people realize they do not know what exercises to perform for weight loss.
There are three chief forms of exercise: aerobic exercise, such as jogging; flexibility exercises, like yoga and other forms of stretching; and strength training, including bodybuilding.
Aerobic and strength training will help you burn the most calories. Since losing weight is dependent on either burning more calories or taking in less, it’s best to focus on these initially to ensure your self motivation lasts as you lose weight.
Usually, 30 minutes of aerobic exercise three times a week is suggested. Build the time and frequency as you move forward.
But many people whose self-motivation has urged them to begin an exercise for weight loss program ignore the importance of strength training. Aerobic exercise burns more calories in the beginning, but lifting weights increases muscle mass, and muscle burns more calories than fat. A pound of muscle burns 35 calories per day to function at rest; a pound of fat burns only two calories for the same function.
The fitness consensus used to believe that to “build” muscle, you should do fewer reps (3-5) at higher weights, and to simply “tone,” higher reps (12-15) with lighter weights was best. But there’s no such thing as “toning.” Definition that results from what’s wrongly called toning results because you have lost the layer of fat on top of the muscle, making it more visible. The size of the muscle underneath depends on how strenuously you train.
You must “tear down” the muscle so it can rebuild itself afterward. In fact, you do not build muscle while pumping iron but you do in the days after when it is “resting.” The general rule for strength training is beginning with three sets of 8-12 reps at a weight that leaves you almost incapable of doing the entire set. Then, rest for 30-60 seconds before attempting your next set.
Do not be disheartened if you are unable to do all of the reps on every set. In fact, use that to determine when to add weight. If you’re finishing each set without any muscle strain, you will want to add weight.
Self motivation helped you to begin, but many people have a difficult time keeping the pace. It helps knowing that the source of our motivations is a belief. Think about it: If you didn’t believe the gnawing sensation in your stomach meant you were hungry, you wouldn’t feel motivated to eat.
Understanding what ideas motivate you is necessary to weight loss, because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will exercise consistently. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is a form of hypnosis. And there are NLP techniques that can create exercise motivation because, over time, desire to exercise for weight loss alone probably will not be enough to keep you going. Exercise hypnosis motivation therapy can help.
Your initial task is naming the most important things in your life. We call these things your highly valued criteria. Highly valued criteria are usually intangibles: money wouldn’t be highly valued criteria, but the freedom, fun, or security that money can offer would be.
Next, establish what you need to believe to feel highly motivated to exercise. It’s important to bear in mind that logic has nothing to do with belief. Things do not have to be logical to believe them. You may find you already have a belief that conflicts this new idea. That’s okay.
While understanding what motivates us is important, exercise hypnosis motivation therapy can put these ideas to work by ensuring self motivation lasts. Hypnosis for motivation does this by changing the computer codes in your brain, so you believe ideas that motivate you.
Belief systems are based in our unconscious mind, which is like a computer. Computers do not have any facility to reason. The input controls the output. The techniques used in exercise hypnosis motivation therapy can make you believe almost anything, as long as you’re willing to believe.
You begin by making a picture in your mind’s eye that illustrates something you already believe, like, “I love my children.” Then you learn to calibrate the elements or ‘Submodalities’ of that mental belief picture.
Next, you make a mental picture that illustrates your motivational idea. Let’s say your motivational idea is, “If I exercise, then I will look great and my marriage will improve.” Then you learn how to modify the Submodalities of this mental image to correspond with the Submodalities in your calibrated belief picture. On the other hand, if a belief is holding you back, the same technique can change that belief to doubt.
Hypnotherapy for motivation that incorporates NLP can provide you with something of an internal personal motivator. Using a hypnosis for exercise motivation program ensures that the enthusiasm you began with persists until reaching your objective, and then helps you maintain that objective.
Alan B. Densky, CH has specialized in all aspects of hypnotherapy weight loss, including NLP for exercise motivation CDs since 1978. Visit his Neuro-VISION hypnosis website to benefit from Free hypnosis videos, articles, and newsletters.
- Alan B. Densky, CH
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