Five Remarkable Principles For Exercising That Induce Subliminal Consistency

Working out consistently is what most struggle with, here is how to acquire that important power.

Following the next five principles, you can create an anchorpoint throughout your life.

Consistency is the most important component when working to accomplish great achievements in all aspects of life.

Powerful exercises, more specifically weight training, the anchorpoint throughout my life. Especially at an early age, it wasn’t about physique building per se; there was more to it.

Without consistency, programs are unorganized, your body has a harder time adapting, and forming habits may be more challenging.

Let me ask you, why would you want to exercise?

What’s your specific reason?

Once you get this out of the way, the next principles will work best.

You want to become slim, right?

From now on, every incremental step you’ll make following the next principles will set you to work and make that happen. Be more specific, like you want to be 8 kilograms lighter with less fat by the start of next year.

Tip: Since you struggle with consistency, you’re better off creating a longer plan, so your aim doesn’t stress you out when the results are not shown in record time. Setting a reasonable goal over a longer time frame will likely increase the chances of reaching your aim without being hindered by mental stress.

“Consistency over perfection, intensity, and motivation. Consistency beats all of them.”

Start by overdoing it.

I know not the greatest advice you would expect ey?

By overdoing it, I don’t mean overtraining, overstressing, or overloading. This could be dangerous to do as an exercise rookie.

What I mean by overdoing has more of a mental side to it. Look, you have problems with staying consistent, right?

No problem, many people struggle with this; what if I told you there is a solution that will enable you to become consistent in your exercise regime.

How can you solve this?

• Create an urge
• Create an interest
• Create a habitual behavior

Create an urge

How can you create an urge?

Envision the outcome you desire will have you hunkering for that result. It’s part of your subconscious programation.

Seeing yourself somewhere in the future lines out a path that will help you to take steps in a particular direction easier, supported by your automatic assistance, meaning: your subconscious mind.

Create an interest

If there is no real interest, you’ll have an extremely difficult time achieving and sustaining consistency.

Finding your passion can be tricky sometimes, but there are ways to open yourself up to discover them.

Some ways to develop interest are:

• Learn a new skill
• Explore a wide variety, and perform the exercises that you like
• Surround yourself with passionate people
• Think back to when you were a kid. Were there any exercises you liked back then?

Link feelings and emotions.

What will you gain, and how will this benefit you?

Know the answer to that, and you’ve gained another mental anchor to keep you in the long-term game.

A benefit or reward for gaining will couple an emotional state to your behavior. Thus it will become harder to let a newly formed habit slip.

Create a habitual behavior

Here the overdoing kicks in.

One of the simplest methods to create a habit is to increase frequency.

Train daily, don’t skip a day. I know this is counterintuitive, and many will argue about the recovery time and other aspects. But understand that this will not be your main focus in the beginning.

You wanted to become consistent, right?

Many things are said about creating a habit. One thing I am 100 percent sure of is that you know it has become a habit once you skip something you were doing and feel strange, awkward, or bad because of skipping that particular thing.

Once you know that feeling, you know it’s a habit. Whether that requires 21 or 90 repetitive days in a row or more…

A great aim is to do something every day for a month and crank it up to three months. After these three months, the chances are that you’ll integrate a real habit, a habit that has the ingredients to stick.

Forget about other rules about training for this period. What you want is to create a strong connection with your training.

Keep your training sessions rather short.

Short training periods (10–20 minutes) are preferable if you implement them daily.

Something to keep in mind is: Don’t overload. This means you don’t want to improve any aspect of physical fitness, develop strength, or lift progressively heavier objects straight away.

You can vary in exercise types; during this phase, you can benefit from enhancing connective tissue.

The emphasis here isn’t growing muscle, breaking records, or improving anything than mindset!

This was you overdoing it; great you are set at the beginning of your consistency track!

“I hate every minute of training. But I said, don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

-Muhammad Ali-

Associate your workout

You want to create a strong connection with what you’re about to do for the next decade or longer. Thus associative triggers can work miracles that make you want to push your boundaries even on days when you don’t feel like exercising.

Make it unavoidable for yourself not to perform that daily exercise!

How?

• Buy elastic bands
• Keep a jumping rope
• Even if you only have a little bit of space, have a situp bench or a treadmill in your house

Be creative; whatever you do, make it unavoidable.

Environment

Where and how you live can determine the mental barrier which will keep you from engaging in your exercise.

“Create a designated workout space.”

Make sure that space is nearby, easily reachable, someplace that invites…

Daily habits

What can help to keep you in the game is:

• Reading
• Watching exercise videos
• Journaling or logging your exercise or even preparing it on paper the evening before

The point of associating your workout is making a connection and, if possible, multiple connections that function as reminders or triggers if you want to induce working out.

“If your habits don’t align with your dream, then you either need to change your habits or your dream.”

-James Clear-

Peak performance

An optimal endocrine state with a mix of confidence and joy.

“Pick the same time of day to workout.”

A runner would call it a runner’s high; writers rather call it “flow state.”

Potato, potatoes, in the end, it’s an optimal state for you feels effortless and great.

Peak performance is an optimal state of performance ability triggered by strict timing.

“Set a strict bedtime, this will get you ready to play the consistency game easier, and you’ll make sure peak performance is achievable.”

During peak performance, you’ll reach a state where you perform exceptionally, seemingly effortless. This state doesn’t only serve well during athletic performance but also performs better in other aspects of life.

Focussed, alert, and fully engaged. You can achieve this at work while doing your job; you can achieve this state to learn new material as well.

The ability to keep accurate to a regular beat, and synchronize with an ensemble.

“Train hard, run fast, turn up, and the rest will take care of itself.”

-Usain Bolt-

Overcome hurdles

What is meant by hurdles?

This means every daily task or habit hinders you from completing your training or prevents you from performing your daily practice.

All the things that inhibit you from being consistent!

Some examples:

• Sleep deprivation
• Work hours (for sure, night shifts are a big problem)
• Party weekends, late-night drinks
• Family time and responsibilities
• Gym distance or limitations due to your living location

Surely there are more, and your hurdles can be different from mine. But these should be the most known hurdles that 80% or more of the population will struggle with.

Often being distracted is a huge modern-day hurdle.

How do overcome this one?

To overcome certain hurdles, you’ll need separation time. Moments like family time, and work, can’t be excluded from your daily task list, so you’ll have to work your way around it.

Scheduling

Don’t you have time, you say?

That doesn’t exist! You’ll find small gaps or bad habits when you dissect your day. Use them or replace them to blend in your exercise moment.

What’s a great thing to do?

Use your early mornings. That way, you get that element of the stress out of your mind (often when the habit of exercising isn’t integrated yet.) Waking up early can create two to three hours of alone time where you can perform focused work.

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”

-John F. Kennedy-

Seek a mentor

There are many ways to seek a mentor.

Find a mentor who represents the persona you want to become, either by proven results or by behavior.

A mentor doesn’t need to be a world-famous person. This can easily be someone who you admire from your circle, someone who has better skills than you, someone who has greater willpower, or someone who can push you!

A mentor should be someone who is more disciplined than yourself, one that helps you to stay on your consistency track.

You could seek mentorship through books or videos as well.

Something I used in the past when I felt like I was getting to slack down was watching motivational movies on youtube. (Make sure these are from high performers, impressive people who touch your emotional state.)

“You can have results or excuses but not both!”

-Arnold Swhwarzenegger-

Five Remarkable Principles For Exercising That Induce Subliminal Consistency:

1. Start by overdoing it

2. Associate your workout

3. Aim for Peak Performance

4. Overcome hurdles

5. Scheduling

6. Seek a mentor (Correct this was a bonus)

These were a few principles that should get you to train consistently. Get up and put the work in every single day, start small and pick up phase weekly, monthly, yearly…

Remember this is just the early stage to create consistency. Once this has been done, next you can start to focus on real training and recovery in order to grow and improve.

Absorb, Read, Write, Sleep, Exercise, THRIVE!

Thanks for reading this post! Enjoy the process and seek to upgrade new skill sets along the way.