Banish Excuses: How To Change Your Attitude Towards Working Out

It’s Up To You

The beginning of a new fitness routine may seem daunting and downright challenging at first, because honestly, it is, but it does get easier with time. Truth be told, if you genuinely want something, you will work hard for it, and you’ll find the time, money, energy, and effort, which are essentially the motivation to keep carrying on. If you put in mediocre effort, you will get mediocre results.

Do you truly believe by hitting snooze on your alarm and missing a gym session, or skipping workout days, or even reducing a set of exercises because you ‘don’t feel like it,’ that you’re going to see the results you want? Simply put, no, you will not. You need to commit to your goal every single day and push yourself at every stage and work until you achieve losing that extra five pounds or just becoming more toned and defined. Was it easy? Not at all. But can you do it? Absolutely because when your attitude becomes more resilient than your excuses.

The Science Behind Changing Your Attitude

Psychologists at the University of Freiburg in Germany did a study that discovered adjusting your perspective on challenging tasks, specifically working out, can make exercising seem a lot easier to do. In this study, seventy-eight adults of different fitness levels rode a stationary bike with different conditions, as researchers wanted to know if the expectations on the difficulty of an activity can affect how strenuous it feels. Each participant wore a compression shirt and was asked how athletic they were before their stationary workout.

The research concluded those who displayed a positive attitude and who thought of themselves as athletic found the workout easier compared to the unathletic and negative participants. Overall, the study's findings concluded there can be a placebo effect when exercising or playing a sport, and what a participant thinks about the activity makes a significant difference. Generally speaking, if you believe in yourself, a product, or that the activity is beneficial, you are more likely to enjoy it, stay motivated, and make fewer excuses to achieve your goal.