Saturday, December 6, 2008

Reaching Your Fitness Potential

By Marcus Martinez

Have you ever really thought about what it will take to reach your fitness goals? You might be trying to lose weight, build muscle, increase endurance; but what does it really take?

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.

You have to push yourself when you workout every time you hit the gym, take a jog, or swing a kettlebell. When you set your fitness goal, you have to see yourself achieving it, then do what it takes to make it happen.

I can tell you what won't get you there is a lack of intensity in your training and using the bare minimum in what you can lift each and every time, never progressing, and doing a ton of exercises to sculpt your body. If you follow what I say of training hard, training heavy, and training efficiently, you'd be leagues above 99% of the population.

Most people don't train hard enough to see real results. You have to push yourself to a place you've never been if you want to see results you've never seen. When you do the same thing over and over again and you can expect the same mediocre results. What you should do is run that extra mile, sprint that extra hill, tack on some more weight on that bar or pick a heavier kettlebell.

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.

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