The Psychology Of Arm Toning
Monday, January 25th, 2010Achieving arm tone doesn’t have to be an uphill battle for you. Unfortunately for me, It was an uphill battle.
And the most difficult part of the whole arm tone war was an unstable level of motivation. Despite all my efforts, I could not stick with a program for a very long time.
Sometimes the disappointment would be so great that I would jump ship all-together. And a jar of cookies would become my consolation.
But I had a wake-up call and came to the conclusion that this type of mental lifestyle was not going to get me the sexy arms I so desperately wanted.
So I searched high and low for a method that would allow me to stay motivated indefinitely. And I’m happy to say that I found said method. It was created by David Burns M.D. and in my opinion is the best thought modification system out there. Central to his method is the elimination of cognitive (thought) distortions.
So without further ado, here are three distortions you should avoid so that your arm tone motivation never fades:
1. Perfectionism distortions. If you see things as black or white then you have this distortion. For example, if you have to have a perfect workout or no workout at all then you suffer from perfectionism. Don’t sweat the small stuff and always keep moving forward despite minute setbacks. In other words, focus on general patterns of improvement.
2. Over-generalizing distortions. Just because you haven’t been successful today doesn’t mean you can’t be successful tomorrow. You simply haven’t found the right approach. Yet with this distortion, you assume that your past failures will keep on being your future failures. The key here is to keep on trying new things with a fresh outlook.
3. Mental filtering distortions. Make sure to always give yourself credit for the smallest of achievements. With this distortion you hardly focus on the positive and prefer to focus on the negative. If you have a test, for instance, and get 99 questions right and 1 wrong, you focus on the one you got wrong!
If you do not avoid the above cognitive distortions, arm tone will keep on eluding you. You have to achieve constant and lasting motivation in order to stick with an arm toning program.
And remember that the fastest path to sexy arm success if through rapid action. So don’t let this information sit in your head for too long, take action now!
Katherine Crawford M.S., a Harvard exercise expert and recent arm fat sufferer, is an expert on exercises for flabby arms for women. Discover how to get toned arms right now by exploring her blog on arm flab.
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