The weight loss industry is a multi billion pound industry
and people make a lot of money from it with new crazies
coming and going. As always, at some time the latest
exercise fad eventually dies off!
So, what’s the next craze to hit the industry?
Thirty minutes of attempted escapology with a 30 second
dunk in a tank of water every 2 minutes, just to raise the
heart rate that little bit more?
Seriously, where are we going wrong?
Well firstly, there are a lot of desperate people who will
do anything to lose those unwanted pounds of stubborn
bodyfat but unfortunately want to lose it all way too
quickly and with no extra effort. Well when I say anything,
what I really mean is anything that’s involves taking
a magic pill.
Well I’m sorry but there’s no such thing and
even if there was, wouldn’t you rather lose weight
and feel healthy at the same time?
Let’s face it, what exactly drew you to this article,
it wouldn’t be the title fat loss would it?
Now honestly ask yourself, were you expecting to read
something unfound and so amazing that the pounds of bodyfat
will be dropping off as you read this?
If so, then we’ve got problems. If you thought that
maybe there’s a better approach to losing weight than
what you’re doing right now then your right!
So what’s the first step to take when you finally
realize that you can’t lose weight by eating chips
(something I read in a men’s mag). Well before you
start dialing the number for your nearest weight watchers
or slimming world club (my personal opinion is don’t
bother), you need to get your mind ready for action.
Remember everything you do comes from the mind so if your
mind isn’t ready, you’re on the familiar road
to failure.
Take this scenario for instance, how many of you have
decided to go on the latest fad diet the night before, woke
up the next morning and already decided to leave it till
the next day?
What’s worse, you then feel that’s it’s
then expectable to eating crisps, chocolate or whatever you
crave by telling yourself that it’s alright because
your diet starts tomorrow!!!
If you were mind set on your diet in the first place, you
wouldn’t have chocolate or crisps or whatever you
crave for you own in your home!
This is also very true for the latest gym exercise fad or
January/February rush. “Right, that’s
it….I’m joining a gym and getting fit” or
“there’s this great new body combat with real
weapons and the instructor said it’s good because the
fear of getting injured raises the metabolism.”
Ok, so maybe a bit far fetched, but that persons been going
to the gym for 3 months and hasn’t lost a single
pound!
All I am trying to reinforce here in my ‘grumpy old
men style’ is to prepare your mind before you rush
off to try the latest fad diet or exercise and stop looking
for the miracle cure.
Crunch Time
So what do you need to do?
Firstly, you need to determine what drives you to want to
lose weight or get fitter. Then you need to change the
reasons why you want to lose weight into why you must lose
weight.
So straight away, we change from wanting to lose weight to
having to lose weight and already become very powerful and
fixed on what we are going to achieve.
In fact one thing that we do at Kevin Raison Personal
Training Studios in the West Midlands is find out exactly
what they want before they start training with us. We start
this in the consultation room where we get our clients to
be as precise as they can when it comes to achieving their
goals.
This is recorded to make sure that our clients stick to it
and are reminded each and every session why they are with
us. We also get them to write down what they are going to
achieve in that certain time frame and recommend them onto
programs such as www.themagichundred.com. A goal setting
program that helps you achieve amazing results.
Note: ‘what they are going to achieve not want to
achieve.’
We then ask our clients to read out there goals aloud every
morning and evening before they go to bed. So what’s
the reason for this?
Have you ever woken one morning and had a craving for a
certain food or drink. Then at mid morning it strikes
again, then again in the afternoon and finally in the
evening when you can’t resist and you give into
temptation.
Now imagine if you were to wake up and the first thing you
do is read out aloud your goal on your goal card or read
you magic hundred list, then mid morning you do the same
and so on for everyday.
Can you see where I’m coming from now?
You actually become what you think about!
If you think about what you are going to achieve this much
you actually turn your thoughts into positive habits and
positive results.
At first this may all seem a bit strange; I must admit it
seemed a little strange to me when I first started doing
it. Then things just started falling into place, you still
have to make things happen of course, but if you’re
in a positive frame of mind it will happen.
So how do we go about starting?
Simple:
•Choose your goal and be as specific as you can
•Don’t set to easy a goal, make sure the goal
scares you a little
•Think about your goal as often as you can
•Actually imagine yourself being the person you want
to be in that time frame
I promise you, if you stick to the above rules you’ll
be closer than you’ve ever been to your goals and you
haven’t even started your programme yet!
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Kevin Raison is fast becoming a sought after Personal
Trainer in the UK. Having been a senior trainer at Dax
Moy’s Personal Training Studio in London. Kevin now
has his own Personal Training Studios in the midlands.
You can visit Kevin at http://www.kevinraison.co.uk
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