Want to get a 6 pack now? Focus on your goals
If you want to get 6 pack abs but don't think you can stay committed to a diet or fitness plan, don't worry, you're not alone. You may get to the gym regularly, lift weights, do cardio and yoga. You might even read a book or two about eating often and in all the right ratios. You may have had all the correct elements in place to achieve the body of your dreams but still find yourself, 3 to 6 months later, wondering how you fell off the diet and now weigh more than when you started. The missing element that glues your fitness plan together is written goals.
Tom Venuto, fitness guru, says that the biggest mistake people make on their quest for six pack abs is that they fail to create written goals. Tom says that our minds are programed to keep things the same. Homeostasis is the technical term for your body's ability to keep itself the same as it was before. That's why our bodies resist any changes in diet or exercise that we impose on it. It is difficult at best to replace your old habits and body image since it has taken your entire life to develop these habits. In order to successfully reprogram our brains to accept the new behaviors and turn them into habits is to create written goals, and look at them everyday.
Create goals as if they've already been accomplished. Lets say you have a goal to eat 5 meals per day with a lean protein and dark green vegetables. Wrong way to write the goal:
1. I'm going to eat as often as possible and fit lean protein and veggies whenever possible.
2. In order to stay on my diet plan of 5 meals per day; I wont eat pizza, Mexican food, candy, soda, or cookies.
3. In the future I'll eat balanced meals which include a lean protein. When ever I go out to eat I will make healthy meal choices.
Goal #1 falls short because they are not concrete and are vague. Goal #2 definitely won't work because Tom says that your mind can't process deletion or words like "won't" or "avoid". So your mind will interpret "I won't eat pizza" as "I eat pizza." The final goal won't work because anything set in future tense is not as powerful as a goal set in the present or as if it's already been accomplished.
Here's how Tom Venuto would have us write our goal: I look fit and lean and feel great about how my wash board abs look. I have achieved 10% body fat by eating 5 meals per day consisting of a lean protein and dark green vegetables. I eat chicken, fish, and egg whites as well as broccoli and spinach.
This goal is properly written because it's specific, written with emotion, and written as if you've already been successful in attaining the body of your dreams. This goal will help your brain accept the new dietary and exercise behaviors and soon see them as habits that come naturally. Soon your mind will see you as the lean and fit individual that you're striving to become not the out of shape one that you're leaving behind. So if you want to get a 6 pack and keep them forever, write your goals down and look at them all the time! - 17273
Tom Venuto, fitness guru, says that the biggest mistake people make on their quest for six pack abs is that they fail to create written goals. Tom says that our minds are programed to keep things the same. Homeostasis is the technical term for your body's ability to keep itself the same as it was before. That's why our bodies resist any changes in diet or exercise that we impose on it. It is difficult at best to replace your old habits and body image since it has taken your entire life to develop these habits. In order to successfully reprogram our brains to accept the new behaviors and turn them into habits is to create written goals, and look at them everyday.
Create goals as if they've already been accomplished. Lets say you have a goal to eat 5 meals per day with a lean protein and dark green vegetables. Wrong way to write the goal:
1. I'm going to eat as often as possible and fit lean protein and veggies whenever possible.
2. In order to stay on my diet plan of 5 meals per day; I wont eat pizza, Mexican food, candy, soda, or cookies.
3. In the future I'll eat balanced meals which include a lean protein. When ever I go out to eat I will make healthy meal choices.
Goal #1 falls short because they are not concrete and are vague. Goal #2 definitely won't work because Tom says that your mind can't process deletion or words like "won't" or "avoid". So your mind will interpret "I won't eat pizza" as "I eat pizza." The final goal won't work because anything set in future tense is not as powerful as a goal set in the present or as if it's already been accomplished.
Here's how Tom Venuto would have us write our goal: I look fit and lean and feel great about how my wash board abs look. I have achieved 10% body fat by eating 5 meals per day consisting of a lean protein and dark green vegetables. I eat chicken, fish, and egg whites as well as broccoli and spinach.
This goal is properly written because it's specific, written with emotion, and written as if you've already been successful in attaining the body of your dreams. This goal will help your brain accept the new dietary and exercise behaviors and soon see them as habits that come naturally. Soon your mind will see you as the lean and fit individual that you're striving to become not the out of shape one that you're leaving behind. So if you want to get a 6 pack and keep them forever, write your goals down and look at them all the time! - 17273
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