Stay Motivated and Keep Working Out

There are obvious reasons that make it bad to miss workouts. Not working out means not burning calories and therefore no muscles are trained. Missing a workout also puts a snag in your routine. These are both valid reasons to stay on track and to make sure you don't miss a workout, but neither of these reasons is as dangerous as what is about to be explained.

Your body is slow to yield visual results. You will not see the work you've put in until weeks later. Most people only last a couple of weeks on a new workout routine, so these people start to see results right about the time they quit. This creates a negative mindset. You feel guilty when you lose focus and start to miss workouts. After a week of inactivity, you can look in the mirror and you will look better than you did when you were working out. This will seem justified to you that you do not need to go to the gym, but this is not reality. Though you have not been working out, exercise is still responsible for your better looking body.

Building a better body is a physically and mentally tough process. Even if you are able to block out all the contradictions in the media, you still have the mirror playing tricks on you. Here's how to overcome this and stay on track:When you start working out, make sure to get a complete body assessment. Hiring a personal trainer to do this is recommended as the assessment process takes skill, experience and objectivity. After you have been properly assessed, make sure to commit to your workout for at least a month, no matter what, and do not look at your body in the mirror until 30 days have passed. If you have done this you will be very pleased to see how good your body looks. This proves the power of exercise and motivates you to keep up the workouts. By not seeing your body for a month, you remember the pre-workout image of your body which looks dramatically different after a month of working out. When you are working out and looking in the mirror everyday, you are seeing very slight changes from day to day so there is no dramatic contrast.

For more motivating results, get another body assessment after the 30 days of working out to compare results.