Training in your comfort zone is a surefire way to never get the body you want. After all, the majority of change happens when you are pushing yourself on the outer edge of your capabilities.
Unfortunately, this can be uncomfortable and many people wish to stay comfortable even if it limits their ability to change.
So here is how to make sure comfort isn’t preventing you from losing weight:
1. Disrupt your routine: You don’t need a major change here, but taking small steps to make yourself uncomfortable will eventually desensitize you to the discomfort associated with change. This may seem a little intimidating at first, but you have to start somewhere.
2. Quantify fear: If you simply let fear linger in your head, you are less likely to ever take action. And if you don’t take action, you won’t notice any results. And by writing fears down, they usually lose their power because you notice how exaggerated they are.
3. Envision yourself training at the next level: Doing so will not only provide psychological and confidence benefits, but it will also let your nervous system test run the new method without having to physically endure the effort.
4. Tackle things one at a time: You don’t have to reach the next level or step in your training all at once. You can do it one piece at a time. The only exception here is if you have a personality that likes to seem rapid and extreme results.
5. Get a partner: There is nothing better than to have someone along with you in the journey to going further. Even better, if you can start training with somebody that is already at the level you want to be at, you will get there faster.
Training at the outer edge of your abilities is the best way to get the body you so desperately want and need. So make sure you take action on this advice sooner rather than later. Because later usually never comes!
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