15/03/2023
Finding Your Why.
What is your Fitness WHY?
Finding and knowing your fitness why is one of the most powerful mindset tools you will need at the start of your fitness journey.
This ties in closely and should be a part of fitness goal setting that I covered in another post. Before you begin, YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR WHY.
Your fitness why is the reason you want to achieve your goal. The deepest, darkest emotions and feelings you have about yourself and your body. What you want to change and more importantly the reason or reasons why you want to make this change.
Everybody’s why will be different but knowing yours will help you focus on your goals and put you in the best place to smash through your comfort zones and push through those low motivation moments.
You need to know exactly why and what you want to change before you can start to change it!
To make this as powerful as possible you need to dig down deep inside yourself. Past all the superficial bs and wishy-washy answers and find out, for yourself why you want this more than anything else.
You need to be authentic and 100% real for yourself. You came up with this goal for a reason and only you know why that is.
Dig Deep To Find Your Why!
Sometimes identifying your why can bring up emotion’s, it can even be buried way down inside your subconsciousness.
You may have created barriers stopping it from coming to the surface.
No matter how hard it is you need to dig down, keep asking yourself why, why do you want to achieve these goals? what is motivating you?
The good news is the more emotion you can attach to your why the better, the bigger the motivator and the more powerful it becomes.
Your Why is Your Motivator
I believe that motivation is something you have or you don’t have its something you can be given or buy.
As a personal trainer accountability is what I give, a routine, support and guidance when you losing focus. If you lack motivation you are making this journey an uphill battle for both of us and the chances of you staying on course to achieve your goals are slim.
One of the main reasons for lacking motivation is not identifying and being aware of your why. Let’s face it if you don’t know why you are doing something then why would you keep doing it especially when it is as challenging. as changing your routine and your body.
Your why is the reason you will change the way you eat, the reason you want to better yourself. Its the reason you wake in the morning, what gets you to the gym, it is your motivator and it enables you to push yourself more than you have ever done before.
I can’t find your why for you. You have to do that for yourself.
Finding Your Fitness Why
So how do you find your fitness/weight loss why?
To find you’re why you literally keep asking your self why and when you answer that why ask again.
For example:
• “I want to lose 20kg of weight and drop my body fat percentage to 12%”
• WHY?
• “Because my doctor has advised me to lose 3 stone and I believe that is a healthy fat percentage” (Outside influence)
• WHY do I want to achieve this goal?
• “Because for the first time ever I have been told I am morbidly obese, I knew I was overweight but never imagined it was so bad”
• WHY is this important? how does this make you feel?
• “I feel awful, I feel disappointed, I feel shocked, I feel scared, I feel worried, I feel sad but I also feel determined to change this”
• WHY are you so determined now?
• “Because of how close I am to diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses”
Keep drilling down till you find enough fuel to keep your passion and fire burning until your goals are achieved.
Do this for each goal.
*Remember the more reasons, emotion and passion you can attach to this the more powerful it becomes
Visualise Your Why
This follows on from the last point, the first step in visualising your why is by writing it down.
By writing it down you are finding it, thinking it, saying it, writing it, seeing it and reading it this process is cementing it in your brain.
Think of it as making a contract with yourself, the content you have written is what you are going to do and by signing it you are declaring to yourself by yourself that the work will be done!
When you have finished and you have written it all down and signed you are going to put this somewhere you can see it everyday and or somewhere you have access to it when you need.
As You Change So Does Your Why
Fitness journeys are an amazing thing if you can stay on the path to success.
Every day I see clients changing before my eyes not just in physical appearance but also in strength, fitness, health, confidence, willpower, and motivation.
As you change so to might your why and this is fin this is the idea. But don’t forget you’re why is part of the reason you made it this far so as you and your goals change, update and rewrite them as the old ones have been achieved and you have new goals moving forward.
It is an extremely powerful mindset tool to achieve a goal and therefore your why changes, look back at where you started then rip it up and make brand new goals to achieve things you never felt possible at the start.
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