All the performance motivation you will need
They say it takes something drastic to happen in your life, in order for you to make a drastic change. Well, recently I had that drastic change in my life, and that was after having a visit with my Dr., being told that I was suffering from the onset of Type II diabetes. Now that is a bit of a wake-up call!
Of course the doctor’s diagnosis was correct and his method of treatment was quite simply to get off the couch and lose some weight. Pretty easy task one might think, but for somebody who spent most of his life being rather sedentary, this was actually a fairly formidable task. Though the fear of diabetes should have been sufficient psychological motivation, the fact remained that I needed to embark upon a fairly stringent regimen of exercise training in order to improve my level of exercise fitness. I had done enough research to realize that if I could ever get the weight down to a manageable level, then my blood sugars would fall as well, and I would be well on the way to managing my type II diabetes.
Exercise training
Like I said, I had had no experience in any type of exercise training in the past, so I was pretty naïve as to what I should be doing in order to get a decent exercise fitness level. I did try a one-month membership at our local gym, but thank goodness it was only for one month, as I really developed an intense dislike for that type of exercise training.
Exercise fitness
A good friend of mine had been through a similar situation a few years ago, and he shared with me the psychological motivation that work for him, and that being when he listened to a series of self hypnosis tapes that were designed to gradually encourage you to enjoy exercise training. I did make a purchase of these tapes, and found that they were just the performance motivation that I needed, and I quickly found a form of exercise that I thoroughly enjoyed, that being walking.
I now find myself looking forward to the end of the day, when I can put on some running shoes and head out for my evenings one hour walk. I have found that is really all that exercise training I need, in order to control my blood sugar levels and reduce the risk of my Type II diabetes worsening. The tapes truly were the psychological motivation that I needed.
