It's All In Your Head

Today I was back in the gym.  Our trainer was Bronson and he had a few words of advice for us.  It was great advice.

Primarily, he told us going to the gym is a mind game.  "Get your head in the right frame of mind before you even walk in the gym."  That way, you work your hardest for the amount of time you're there then you leave it behind you.

Secondly, he told us that what we are doing here at L.I.F.E. is the hardest work we'll have to do.  When we leave here and go back to our real lives we'll know how to workout hard to get the results we want at home.

Third, he said we must combine all the facets of our life to be successful at weight loss: workout, rest, nutrition, water consumption, ice, heat, recreation, etc.  When we focus on being balanced then the real change has taken place and we begin to reap the rewards.

Fourth, he told us that most of us would never be selected for the show The Biggest Loser.  Bronson said all the contestents are screened for a 9-month period where extensive testing and bloodwork is done.  In other words, someone with a slow thyroid like me would never be selected because my weight loss wouldn't be fast enough to make "good TV". 

So we spent our workout doing 2 circuits:  cardio and core work.  We'd spend 5 minutes on a cardio machine (minute 3-4 was pushing to our limit), then we'd head over to the mats to do various ab/core work like crunches, shadow boxing, planks, squats, etc. for 4 minutes, then back and forth.  It was a great workout.  

The one thing I know for sure: when I leave L.I.F.E. I will be much closer to the athlete I used to be in my teens and twenties.  I see changes daily which is very exciting...like my balance is greatly improving and I'm much more graceful now getting up and down on the mats.  I'm so glad I made this decision...it's one of the best in my life to date.

Rock on!