It’s not hard to become your own personal trainer if you have the determination to succeed and the skills to follow. Not only can it improve your lifestyle and health but it can also help you reduce negative stress and ward off many of the illnesses associated with stress such as heart disease, digestive disorders and high blood pressure.
Instructions
Become Your Own Personal Trainer
1. Discover your optimum stress level. Where stress is low, you may find that your performance is low because you become much more easily bored, this will result in a lack of concentration and motivation. If this state persists for a long time, then any activity you are involved in whether it’s work or sport, will become tedious, and you will be easily distracted. Where stress levels are too high, your performance will suffer.
2. Avoid burn out. Though burn out may usually happen gradually over an extended length of time, it can manifest mentally or physically or both. Symptoms of burn-out are: Physical Burn-out Feelings of intense exhaustion Vulnerability to disease and infection Immune system breakdown Mental Burn-out Feeling of lack of control over your lifeUnreasonable dissatisfaction with your accomplishments.Negative thoughts and feelingsLoss of motivation and energyExhaustion
3. You can avoid both mental and physical burnout by keeping your sport fun. As you get better at your sport, pace yourself accordingly, don’t increase your goals unrealistically. Also, remember not to over commit - otherwise you will be at increased risk of burning out because you will become increasingly unhappy with your situation. Involvement in sport must be fun, otherwise there is no point in doing it.
4. Keep a training log will help. Monitoring your performance will give you a good indication of when you have reached your peak levels. But apart from that, as you probably know already there’s a certain feeling that goes along with it; every athlete instinctively knows when they’re performing at their best, and when you get that feeling, that’s when you’re in the zone.
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