Where you are today is the result of what you've done every day since you were born. Whether you are fit or fat is a reflection of your habits. Your eating habits, your exercise habits, your mental habits.
The way you look in the mirror right now is the culmination of those habits over a certain period of time. The further your body is from where it should be usually correlates to how long you've had certain bad habits or simply no good habits in place.
By looking in the mirror you can get a rough idea of your habits over the past year or so. If you're over weight, you may have the habit of over eating, or eating low quality foods. Perhaps you have a habit of not exercising when you should?
Lets go back on that year and apply some of these Good Habits to Cultivate for Super Health and Fat Loss
Where would you be right now had you cultivated some of those simple habits?
Would you weigh 10 pounds less? Would you be more active, perhaps taking on new challenges you wouldn't be able to without all that extra energy?
Now is the time to start. If you follow the instructions in that article, I promise you things will start to change by leaps and bounds.
From Wikipedia: "Compound interest is the concept of adding accumulated interest back to the principal, so that interest is earned on interest from that moment on."
So where does the Principle of Compound Interest apply?
Well, when you start to exercise and eat clean on a regular basis, you start to make small changes in the body. You're putting in your time and earning back a decent return in fat loss. Maybe a 1% improvement per day. By consistently following the good habits, that 1% starts to compound in the body.
This is the magic of the body. After a while, the biochemical processes of the body change. Your mind and body is reconditioned to a new standard. Soon the return on your habits are far more than 1% per day. The body gets used to burning more and more fat. It also gets conditioned not to store fat.
The payoff is an overall change in the body on the outside and inside.
For instance, the phenomena of vascularization. In Fitness: The Complete Guide, Dr. Hatfield tells of a test done by a researcher who set a weight on the floor and tied a rope to it. The other side of the rope was looped around the middle finger on his right hand. In time to a metronome, he began to lift the weight with his finger. The first time, and for many weeks after, the best he could do was 25 reps.
One day about 2 months later, the researched began the usual lifting, but he wasn't tired at 25. He kept going until he reached 100 reps! The researchers finger had undergone vascularization in response to the adaptive stress of exercise. More blood vessels opened up in the finger, creating new routes for delivering more oxygen. The blood vessels don't open up one at a time, but by whole networks!
This phenomena is bound to happen throughout your body to some extent when you're exercising properly. Not only does the exercise become easier, it becomes more tolerable. Your threshold for exercise goes way up, and heading to the gym becomes second nature like brushing your teeth.
Think of the possibilities your life can have if you actually enjoyed exercise and eating clean?
You can have it all if you simply cultivate those good habits!Labels: exercising properly, fat loss, good habits, super health, weight loss |
