Exercise Or Self Hypnosis Audio Recordings?

By Jaclyn Hurley


Nearly everyone is aware of the mental and physical benefits of exercise. Physically, exercise tones muscle, speeds up the metabolism, and burns excess calories. Mentally, it is a fantastic stress reliever, and it causes the body to release endorphins, which up your energy level and overall feeling of happiness. People often explore all kinds of motivation techniques like self help books or self hypnosis audio recordings, while neglecting exercise, which works better than any of them.

Even though the benefits of exercise and undeniable, lots of people do not get enough of it. Oftentimes, this is due to not being motivated to begin in the first place. They are aware that walking, running, or weight lifting will be good for them, but they are too tired, or depressed by the weather, or too busy.

Generally, the more often you exercise, the easier it becomes to stay motivated to do it. Those positive feelings and physical changes will work to keep you craving their effects. This means that the most difficult part of any exercise routine is the beginning.

This applies to working out as a whole, and to each particular workout session. In both of these cases, the beginning is the hardest. This is true of both the first few minutes of a session, and the first few weeks of a program.

This is because your body is just warming up. When muscles have been idle, whether for a long time or a short time, they become used to doing less work. Therefore, when you begin to make them work again, they take some time to get used to the increased activity level.

Anyone who has worked out is familiar with the feeling of sluggishness that comes at the beginning. But anyone who has worked through it also knows that it dissipates, and your energy level increases if you keep going. It doesn't mean the workout is necessarily easy, but the intensity of the difficulty lessens.

This is also true in the case of an exercise program, not just an individual workout. And it is true not only of harder workouts like running or lifting weights, but even of walking longer distances than you are accustomed to. At first, you may feel sore or extra tired the next day, and you may need to take a day or two off in between workout sessions. This is fine; just make sure you start again!

The longer you remain with your routine and get your body used to working, the more you will be able to handle. You can spend a longer time exercising, and do activities that are more strenuous. The body will grow used to the concept of working out in general, just as it grows used to each individual workout. Not only will you stop hating exercise, you will even begin to miss it when you don't do it for a few days. Your body will get restless and will miss the burst of endorphins. Get started soon, and find out how long your body needs to adjust.




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