The Simple Secrets to Exercise Success

The Motivation Factor

The difference between people who have exercise success and ones who don’t is simple. It’s the motivation factor. Do you have a plan for motivation? Motivation doesn’t just come out of thin air. You must be proactive and plan ahead. Consistence in exercise comes with continual efforts to be motivated.

If you’re serious about improving your health and bringing your optimal exercise success, put great intention into generating what drives you. According to research, playing music can be the most important aspect of finding motivation for exercise. Movement and music go together and has a way of significantly uplifting energy, improving mood, and distracting you from discomforts. Studies have shown that people get a significant boost in their activities when they listen to music. I’ve put together a list of the best motivation songs for working out.

Here’s a list of motivational music from all genres. They will help propel your motivation to work out!

 

300 Violin Orchestra – John Quintero

Yellow Claw – Kaolo

Elements – Lindsay Sterling

The Truth – Audiomachine

Blackmill – The Drift

Hans Zimmer – Time

Sail – Awolnation

Dissolved Girl – Massive Attack

Apologize – One Republic

Breath of Life – Florence and the Machine

Seven Devils – Florence and the Machine

My Immortal – Evanescence

Rompe – Daddy Yankee

Gasolina – Daddy Yankee

Bailando – Enrique Iglesias

Can’t Trust it – Public Enemy

X Gonna Give it to ya – DMX

Bounce – Timbaland

Changes – Tupac

Hot in Here – Nelly

Gold Digger – Kanye West

I’ll be Missing You – Puff Daddy

Ditty – Paper Boy

Jump Around – House of Pain

Tenessee – Arrested Development

Hey Ya – Outkast

Get Your Freak On – Missy Elliott

Hurricane – Thirty Seconds to Mars

Closer – Nine Inch Nails 

Rollin – Limp Bizkit

First of the Year – Skrillex

Bangarang – Skrillex

Supermassive Hole -Muse

Living on a Prayer – Bon Jovi

It’s My Life – Bon Jovi

Run – Snow Patrol

Girl on Fire – Alicia Keys

Love Me Like You Do – Ellie Goulding

Lights – Ellie Goulding

Just Who You Are – Jessie J

Run the World – Beyonce

Try – Pink

Dark Horse – Katy Perry

Chandelier – Sia

Elastic Heart – Sia

Alive – Sia

Unstoppable – Sia

and for the 80’s kids…

Hearts on Fire – John Cafferty

No Easy Way Out – Robert Tepper

In This Country – Robin Zander

Kenny Loggins – We Meet Halfway

You’re the Best – Joe Esposito

Win in the End – Mark Safan

Make Reasonable Goals

It is highly important that you build your pace slowly from the start. Many people begin with great enthusiasm throwing themselves into a rapid pace. They quickly get discouraged and fall right off track because they didn’t build endurance. Improve exercise success by giving yourself time to progress. Understand that Success doesn’t happen overnight. The body needs time to digest a new routine and develop muscle fitness. The key here is to have patience with yourself.

Find Balance

Nature communicates to us clearly that finding balance is the key to all aspects of life. Often, people get motivated and hit their workouts too hard putting them out of commission for weeks due to soreness, injury, and malnourishment . Find balance in mindset and actions.

Put It on the Calendar

If you write it down, you will be more likely to be accountable to yourself for following through with your plan. The reason this is true is because if it’s written it’s not something that you can conveniently forget. It’s something you can see and touch. Putting it on a schedule ecomes a tangible thing. The mind tends to guide in the direction of avoiding things that produce stress so it is easy to see why you could forget to go for that run if it’s not there written down in front of you. Make it part of a consistent plan to write it down.

Make Comfort a Priority

The easier, more convenient, and more comfortable your workouts are the more likely you’ll stick to them. Get blue tooth headphones. Purchase comfortable sneakers and arch orthotics if needed. Less hassle and more comfort make for easier workouts. The easier you make it for yourself to accomplish your goals, the more likely you’ll have success. 

Give yourself permission to invest in massage. Massage will lessen discomfort and provide an incentive to follow through. It will also break the impulses which cause tetany and pain, increase circulation, and help remove toxins from the body. This will afford you an overall more effective muscle healing process and oxygen exchange.

Focus on Breathing

Contrary to what many believe, fat is not used for energy during exercise. It is atomically changed then excreted from the lungs mostly. When oxygen is added to the mix during a workout, the carbon and hydrogen break into CO2 and water. The molecules are changed, then the CO2 is exhaled out through the lungs. Why is it important to understand this? When you focus more on your optimal lung health and deep exhalation, you’ll be focused directly on the goal. The mind body connection can be a powerful thing. This focus will be beneficial in your weight loss goal. Get out there and capture that oxygen.

Get a Partner

When you commit to a partnership in a workout routine, you’ll find incentive to exercise because it’s always more fun to have a friend or loved one around. In addition, you’ll also have to be accountable to someone else other than yourself for following through. This will add to your motivation factor.

Eat Healthier

Yes, we know this is no secret but there is misconception out there about diet. You can’t just eat what you want as long as you increase time in working out. Excercise and diet go hand in hand. Maintain a healthy diet low in sugar and fat, and higher in protein. Drink lots of water. You don’t have to pay thousands to a guru to teach you this common sense. Exercise more, eat less, drink more water.

The Truth About Supplements

People often take artificial supplements which can be harmful to the body. In addition, they can be detrimental to the metabolic system over time. There are useful, natural vitamins available, such as B complex and biotin, which can significantly aid the metabolism. Focus on natural, consistent, well balanced nutrition to achieve success.

Stop Waiting For Exercise Success

Why is the gym full of people on January first every single year? It is because people wait until “it’s time”. Don’t wait until “it’s time” to be healthier. The time to be better is right now. Every day is a chance to improve yourself, make new goals, and to come alive! Let’s go!