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The Intensity Factor: What's your attitude and approach to getting fit and healthy?

Have you ever noticed people in the gym that are consistent but you never see any changes in their body? Better yet, have you ever seen people working with a personal trainer month after month only to look the same? I give kudos to people who hit the gym for health benefits. Not everyone is going for the physique of a bodybuilder or fitness model. But if you’re looking for an extreme body transformation, whether it be to gain muscle mass or rip up, just showing up and going through the motions isn’t going to cut it. You need to go all out; you need the intensity factor.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a competitive bodybuilder, athlete, or just someone who wants to pack on more muscle, this first and foremost must become a lifestyle and secondly, you have to develop a love for it. You have to be border line obsessed with it. You need to develop the drive and determination. And if you already have it, you know as well as I do that you don’t have it every single day. Yet you still have to somehow zone in on your goal and push through, and there are ways you can achieve this intensity every workout.
First, you have to have a ‘why.’ Why are you doing this? What are your goals and what do you expect to accomplish? If you put a lot of time and effort into something, you expect to get something in return, even if it’s just personal fulfillment. Some people become comfortable where they’re at, even if it’s a low standard in life. But not you, hence you’ve made it this far in this article. You may be tired of being overweight or tired of being skinny and picked on, or you may be in decent shape already but you want to be better because it defines a tremendous part of who you are. Many people do this because it allows them to have a greater impact on others. Figure out your ‘why’ and hone in on that. This needs to become your focal point and will ramp up your level of intensity.
There are also some practical ways to increase intensity, but let me reiterate that you must discover the reason why you’re doing this first. This goes without saying, but a healthy diet with plenty of quality protein and proper rest are a must. Without that, you’ll be dragging yourself to the gym and will more than likely tear your body down more than you’ll build it up. Some type of pre workout supplement is a good idea as well. These can help with focus and allow you to pump out a few more reps than you normally would. Add that to your ‘why’ and that will give you the formula for success.

Intensity will certainly produce results. Train hard, and train all out

Power Within

The power within you starts with you and ends with you. To begin a life changing transformation to become healthy and fit can’t happen unless you are mentally and spiritually focused on that change your vision. Your physical actions are the results of the spiritual and mental involvement. Fooling oneself that they are ready for the task is only going to cause one to slip deeper into the valley of failure, instead of progressing from peak to peak of the hilltops of success. To take on the assignments to get fit and healthy is a challenge in its own right, but to approach it without your game face on makes it another challenge all by itself. One has to turn to the power within and accept the truth that permits one to fulfill the achievable goals. The truth is that we can’t unleash the potential within if we don’t completely devote and are in belief of that goal that is pictured in our mind of being a healthy and fit being. We are greater than any challenges we encounter and more powerful from the inside out. To be healthy we must also understand and believe in the benefits of exercising, the essential necessity of eating healthy foods, the importance of repressing stressors, and the most important of them all, the benefit of truly loving ourselves. The value of an exercise and nutrition plan to help transform you into a healthier being is worthless if you try to follow it with no value in yourself. To love one-self is the first step to losing weight, getting healthy and staying fit forever. The manual to the first step of losing weight is found within.

The illusion of weight loss comes in the form of yo-yo diets, magic pills, fat loss for dummy books, and a plethora of gimmicks that magnets people to their demise. To save oneself from these tragic occurrences, one has to ignore the fantasy of quick fixes and accept the reality of self-accomplishments through perseverance, dedication, and the will to believe. Again folks, it’s all about the power within. How much do you value yourself to be a healthy beautiful person? What is the level of your self-worth? What will it take to understand you can accomplish all from the power within? No external force can assist you to meet the goals of losing weight and getting healthy if your mental and spiritual strength are too weak to move past the barriers of fear. The fear to fail, the fear to not believe in what can truly be, the fear that traps you in an illusion you call life. Allow the power within to prepare you for the possible mission of achieving optimal health.