Post by pookie on Dec 26, 2005 14:40:04 GMT -5
Belief: The Hidden Key to Lifelong Fitness Success!
By Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD
www.CoachFrankSmoot.com
Great news! A major clinical research project has finally given us the long-awaited answer to our #1 fitness question: "Why in the heck won't I just do what I know I should do to get fit and dump these unwanted pounds?”
After decades of study, the researchers discovered that the true cause of our fitness failures boils down to one very flawed belief: that a physical problem should have a physical solution.
Let me explain. All our lives we we've been told that diet and exercise were the "twin keys" to fitness and fat loss. Eat less, move more, and you will succeed. And it sounded so "reasonable" we gave it a second thought. It was just "obvious."
Obvious, but wrong. It turns out that the "secret key" to fitness success will not be found in the health club or on the dinner table, but between our own ears. The researchers discovered that, more than anything else, it is our own beliefs and attitudes that determine whether we will -- or will not -- reach our fitness and fat-loss goals
They found that the "root cause" of fitness failure can virtually always be traced to our own self-sabotaging beliefs and attitudes. And until these self-sabotaging beliefs and attitudes are identified, removed, and replaced with self-supportive ones, even our most sincere efforts to get in shape are likely to fail. One researcher put it this way:
“Trying to get fit and lose weight through diet and exercise alone
is trying to get rid of dandelions with a lawn mower. Sure, you may get
some temporary results. But until you deal with the root cause of your
problem, it just keeps coming back -- and bigger every year!”
Are they saying that diet and exercise do not have a role to play in fitness and fat loss? No, diet and exercise will always play a major role in fitness. But until you get rid of our own (often unconscious) self-sabotaging thinking, you may be dooming yourself to a life of needless struggle, frustration, and fitness failure.
That's because no matter how much you know, if you don't or won't do what you know, there's no way you can possibly succeed. The good news is, once you replace your self-sabotaging beliefs with self-supportive ones, success becomes just as inevitable as failure once was!
By Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD
www.CoachFrankSmoot.com
Great news! A major clinical research project has finally given us the long-awaited answer to our #1 fitness question: "Why in the heck won't I just do what I know I should do to get fit and dump these unwanted pounds?”
After decades of study, the researchers discovered that the true cause of our fitness failures boils down to one very flawed belief: that a physical problem should have a physical solution.
Let me explain. All our lives we we've been told that diet and exercise were the "twin keys" to fitness and fat loss. Eat less, move more, and you will succeed. And it sounded so "reasonable" we gave it a second thought. It was just "obvious."
Obvious, but wrong. It turns out that the "secret key" to fitness success will not be found in the health club or on the dinner table, but between our own ears. The researchers discovered that, more than anything else, it is our own beliefs and attitudes that determine whether we will -- or will not -- reach our fitness and fat-loss goals
They found that the "root cause" of fitness failure can virtually always be traced to our own self-sabotaging beliefs and attitudes. And until these self-sabotaging beliefs and attitudes are identified, removed, and replaced with self-supportive ones, even our most sincere efforts to get in shape are likely to fail. One researcher put it this way:
“Trying to get fit and lose weight through diet and exercise alone
is trying to get rid of dandelions with a lawn mower. Sure, you may get
some temporary results. But until you deal with the root cause of your
problem, it just keeps coming back -- and bigger every year!”
Are they saying that diet and exercise do not have a role to play in fitness and fat loss? No, diet and exercise will always play a major role in fitness. But until you get rid of our own (often unconscious) self-sabotaging thinking, you may be dooming yourself to a life of needless struggle, frustration, and fitness failure.
That's because no matter how much you know, if you don't or won't do what you know, there's no way you can possibly succeed. The good news is, once you replace your self-sabotaging beliefs with self-supportive ones, success becomes just as inevitable as failure once was!
