Win The Arm Tone War With Your Thoughts
Achieving arm tone doesn’t have to be an uphill battle for you. Unfortunately for me, It was an uphill battle.
Why? Because my levels of motivation were in a constant flux. No matter what I did, I could not maintain a lasting amount of motivation.
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.
As a result, I began searching for a way to maintain motivation and adherence to a program. The answer to my prayers? Dr David Burns MD. He created a method that revolved around the avoidance of cognitive 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. How do you avoid it? Don’t sweat the small stuff and always keep moving forward despite minute setbacks. In other words, focus on general patterns of improvement.
2. Overgeneralization distortions. With this one you become a psychic because you believe that something that has happened to you in the past will keep on happening in the future. Just because you haven’t been able to get toned arms in the past does not mean that you will keep on failing in the future.
3. Mental-filters distortions. This one his horrible because it forces you to focus on the negative instead of the positive. If you have a solid day of healthy eating, but slightly veer off and have a small amount of junk food you only focus on the junk food. But what about all the other healthy food you ate? Always give yourself credit for the positive.
Keep the above distortions in mind and make sure you avoid them at all costs. Doing so will allow you to win the mental “arm tone” war. In the end, the person with the highest level of motivation always wins. Good luck!