Friday, December 5, 2008

Reaching Your Fitness Goals

By Marcus Martinez

What does it really take to reach your fitness goals? Lose weight? Muscle Building? Conditioning? Whatever you're trying to do, you need to focus on what really needs to happen to reach your goals.

I started thinking about achieving my fitness goals, as well as helping those people I train to reach their fitness goals, and as much as I want to say that something like a new routine or the latest and greatest workout will help you reach your fitness goals, all it really takes is blood, sweat, and tears.

When you add intensity to your efforts towards meeting your fitness goals, you are much more likely to achieve them. Once you set your fitness goal, visualize yourself reaching it, then push it every time your workout to make it there.

Taking it easy when you do your workout will not help you reach your fitness goals. You need to train hard every single time! If the workout seems easy (meaning that you are not breathing hard or sweating) you're not going to reach your fitness goals.

Most people will not push themselves hard enough to get real results. How could your body change if you're not pushing it past where it is right now? You need to train with high intensity, running that extra distance, using a heavier kettlebell, and giving that extra effort that will help you reach your fitness goals.

If you want better results, training harder will increase the efficiency of each workout. There is no magic solution to reaching your fitness goals, just hard work. Becoming fit goes beyond changing your body, its changing your mind to push yourself past the limits that are currently set. - 16463

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