There are many reasons you might want to build muscle. No reason is wrong; every reason is valid. One of the keys to your success is finding your Why. Try this exercise:
Choose a time and place you can be alone and uninterrupted for 15 minutes. Find a picture of a guy or girl that looks the way you want to look. Make sure it really is how you want to look – it’s worth taking the time to find. Get a piece of paper and a pen (you can use your computer, but somehow it becomes more real when you write it down) and set a 15 minute timer (don’t rely on checking a clock, set a timer. If you need a free one, use this one). Turn your phone off, close down your email, facebook, twitter and anything else that could distract you. Close your eyes and just be still for a few moments, breathing deeply.
My Visualization Image
Get out the picture you found. Imagine yourself looking like that. Imagine that’s the body that stares back at you when you look in the mirror.
Still imagining you see that body in the mirror, write down your answers to the questions below. They are not in any particular order. Just write as many answers to as many of the questions as you can in the 15 minutes. It is a brain storming session, so don’t think whether an answer is “good” or not, just write.
- What do you think when you see your body looking that good?
- How do you feel when you look like that?
- What thoughts go through your mind when you picture yourself walking around like that? To the shops… to the beach… to a party… ?
- What do your friends think when you look that good?
- If you have a significant other, what do they think of your new look?
- How do you feel when you catch a cute girl/guy checking you out?
- How does the extra energy you have improve your life?
- How does the extra strength and confidence improve your life?
- Why do you want to look like that?
- How badly do you want to look like that?
- What are you prepared to give up to look like that?
Take the full 15 minutes, even if you think you haven’t got any more answers. Don’t look back over your answers yet, except to inspire more answers…
Once the time is up, look over your answers. You can use these as motivation to get the body of your dreams. Take the picture you got earlier. If it has the person’s head, crop it because we are programmed to look at a person’s face and you only want to focus on the body. For a free photo editing program, I have used and recommend Photo Filtre.
Take the photo and stick it up wherever you will see it regularly – on the fridge, above your desk, on your set of drawers, your computer wallpaper – using the most powerful answers to the above questions as the caption for the photo. Try to use a different answer for each place you put the picture.
Try to do this exercise every few weeks. You’ll soon notice a whole new energy flows through your workouts, you’ll be eating better and you’ll see great results much quicker than otherwise.
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