The Psychology Of Arm Toning
Getting arm tone took me a very long time. Thus, arm fat haunted me for a large portion of my life.
And the most difficult part of the whole arm tone war was an unstable level of motivation. Despite all my efforts, I could not stick with a program for a very long time.
And at times I would reach tipping points, throw my hands up in the air and give up all hope. Then, I would reward myself with endless cookies.
Luckily, I had a wakeup call one morning. I realized that this pattern of ups and downs was not sustainable.
So I began doing lots of research. And I'm happy to say that the research was well worth it because I found the answer to my problem: the one and only David Burns M.D. He created a system for optimizing thought processes. Said system required the avoidance of thought distortions.
So here are 3 thought distortions you need to avoid today so that you can have motivation tomorrow:
1. Black and white distortions. If you are a perfectionist, you most likely suffer from these distortions. If you have to do something perfectly or not at all, then you see things as black and white. Ironically, if you ignore perfectionism and lower your standards you'll get better results.
2. Over generalizing distortions. This one is based on the faulty assumption that if something happened to you in the past it will keep on happening again and again in the future. You may tell yourself, for instance, that since you haven't been able to lose weight in the past you will never be able to lose weight in the future and every program out there simply won't work for you.
3. Mental filtering distortion. This distortion is pure evil because it prevents you from giving yourself enough credit, a critical component to success. For example, let's say you have an entire month of solid workouts but miss one workout due to a last-minute commitment. Instead of giving yourself praise for the awesome month of workouts, you ignore them and beat yourself up for the single missed workout that was entirely out of your control.
Avoiding the above distortions will seriously help you achieve lasting motivation when trying to get arm tone. And lasting motivation is the key to sexy arm stardom.
More importantly, however, is to develop the habit of rapid action. After all, this information will be useless unless you act on it quickly. - 17268
And the most difficult part of the whole arm tone war was an unstable level of motivation. Despite all my efforts, I could not stick with a program for a very long time.
And at times I would reach tipping points, throw my hands up in the air and give up all hope. Then, I would reward myself with endless cookies.
Luckily, I had a wakeup call one morning. I realized that this pattern of ups and downs was not sustainable.
So I began doing lots of research. And I'm happy to say that the research was well worth it because I found the answer to my problem: the one and only David Burns M.D. He created a system for optimizing thought processes. Said system required the avoidance of thought distortions.
So here are 3 thought distortions you need to avoid today so that you can have motivation tomorrow:
1. Black and white distortions. If you are a perfectionist, you most likely suffer from these distortions. If you have to do something perfectly or not at all, then you see things as black and white. Ironically, if you ignore perfectionism and lower your standards you'll get better results.
2. Over generalizing distortions. This one is based on the faulty assumption that if something happened to you in the past it will keep on happening again and again in the future. You may tell yourself, for instance, that since you haven't been able to lose weight in the past you will never be able to lose weight in the future and every program out there simply won't work for you.
3. Mental filtering distortion. This distortion is pure evil because it prevents you from giving yourself enough credit, a critical component to success. For example, let's say you have an entire month of solid workouts but miss one workout due to a last-minute commitment. Instead of giving yourself praise for the awesome month of workouts, you ignore them and beat yourself up for the single missed workout that was entirely out of your control.
Avoiding the above distortions will seriously help you achieve lasting motivation when trying to get arm tone. And lasting motivation is the key to sexy arm stardom.
More importantly, however, is to develop the habit of rapid action. After all, this information will be useless unless you act on it quickly. - 17268
About the Author:
Author Katherine Crawford M.S., a Harvard exercise expert and recent arm fat victim, is an expert on exercises for flabby arms for women. Learn how to get toned arms now by visiting her blog on arm flab.
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