A real commitment to achieving a state of true physical fitness is a scary thing. There's usually no blood involved, but there needs to be sweat and tears. A workout needs to stress your physical and mental abilities to their max to tell your body to fight to survive it. That it really is a fight for survival. And that's when exercise delivers the results you can see - and feel in the more routine physical activities of your daily life.
Even if you've made a Fit For Life commitment to integrate focused exercise into your routine, that is really only the beginning of your journey. Even if you make it a point to set aside time for an at-home, outdoor or gym workout - what happens - the absolute intensity and focus during that session largely determines the degree of benefit you'll receive from it.
Many of us tend to stay within our Comfort Zone. You know, that easy pace of whatever physical activity you're engaged in that doesn't leave us too out of breath, where we don't sweat too much, where we stop before it feels too stressful and 'hurts', or by short-cutting the workout because we think it takes 'too long'. And as a result, by NOT leaving your comfort zone, one really sabotages much of the potential benefit they're hoping to achieve.
And that's where a Personal Trainer or attending a regularly scheduled Fitness Class comes in. There's so much value in that EXTERNAL voice telling you what to do next, how to do it properly, and to keep going. There's value in a trained and experienced voice that repeatedly asks you to step out of your comfort zone and do 15 seconds more repetitions, to increase the weight, to focus your intensity - when you might otherwise stop. For too many of us, we stay within our comfort zones and sell ourselves short. Sometimes a little external motivation is all we need to become the better, fitter selves we want to be.
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