So I started a fitness program of cardio and weight training in the effort to get into shape. I'm very much out of shape and have been for most of my life (I'm 25 now). I can't really remember a time when I actually WAS in good shape. Sometimes while I'm working out I become frustrated at myself because I'm already winded and dripping with sweat after 10 minutes on an elliptical or because I'm struggling with light weights because I'm so weak.
Hey, don't be frustrated my friend......embrace this bodily reaction...BABY!
It is normal bodily reaction as you are applying a stress the body isnt used to.
And,
right in front of my young friends' eyes, the body is already adjusting to the stresses!
The body WILL adapt and overcome; the MOST important thing you can do is:
Have your MIND adapt and overcome with it!
And, the walls will come tumbling down--------BABY!
Now logically I understand the reality that I AM out of shape and I'm just starting out, so I shouldn't be able to perform like those who have been doing it for much longer. But I still find those feelings of frustration overcoming me. Anyone have any tips on overcoming this? I don't want this to become something that makes me quit.
"This is how we do it, baby!"
PrISm: You are in control, you are not the controlled. --Chillen
"You are the boss, the giver and the receiver" --Chillen
While your body was in its equilibrium state, you made up your mind that you wanted to make bodily changes. When this occurred, your mental state became separate from the body; the body had no idea what your mind was planning until you executed your mental thoughts.
When you executed your mental thoughts, your body then learned what your mind already knew. Now their adjoined, but their is a difference: You didnt have any positive or negative consequences in mentally deciding to change your body composition, but once you executed your thoughts and trained, you broke the body's equalibrium state and thus gave the body "no choice" but to react.
The body just "hates" to change and is giving you signals to the same, while at the the same time---adjusting, adapting, and overcoming, the stresses you just applied and will recover and improve itself.
"EMBRACE THIS FEELING AS A POSITIVE FEEDBACK"
Ever wonder "why" its easier to gain weight for most people than to lose it? The body loves to store fat (Hey! I have eats later, man! Cool! And, gives happy vibes!); however, when the body has to resort to using its own tissue for fuel (litterally eating itself) it is not a happy camper.
The body prefers you to open your mouth rather than you closing it and have to eat itself for food, and will angerily tell you it doesnt like it.
Same in this case. The body is simply used to a past pattern. And, without an "outward" warning you abruptly changed this known pattern, and its telling you---"at first"---it doesnt like it---while at the same time--setting biological functions to rise to the occasion of the stress applied.
You have to recognize this bodily feed back as a positive one: The body is a funny mechanism. It is in one way telling you: WTF?! I dont want any part of this Sh@T! While at the same time making itself stronger from the very first workout stress you applied: The body can lie and tell you the truth.
Understanding this problematic, but essential and normal response is important. Some persons are really motivated until this essential factor begins to wear them down little by little. What one doesn’t realize is the reason for this response:
The change has already begun—and the fruit from this effort is in fact a positive one to embrace.
You getting the feedback response because you had already begun a force of change: EMBRACE IT.
The body will adapt and this "current" feeling will subside and both you and your body will benefit--greatly!
The body is going to fight you negatively at the beginining both physically and mentally. At the same time, it will adapt and overcome in a very strong postive manner: Sort of a crazy combo, but this is true:
DESIPHER YOUR PERSONAL BUSINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I invite you to read the Weight loss intricate as it deals with some if these issues and may give you a different perspective, my friend. Here is the the link:
http://training.fitness.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-intricate-27164.html
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
(Henry David Thoreau)
ROCK ON, MY BROTHA!
Your friend,
Chillen
