Boring Ol' CardioWritten by The Icon Diet Reader
By: The Icon Diet Reader Cardio is a very important aspect of any work out. There are numerous benefits to a good cardio routine. In real world, there are many ways to get a good cardio workout. You can jog, play sports and get chased by police. In gym cardio usually revolves around a handful of machines. There are stair climbers or steppers, elliptical trainers, tread mills, and bicycles. That's about it. A good cardio routine can last anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and is really intensive. The problem is that when you are on a cardio machine, you do same thing over and over. What I am trying to say is that for most of us cardio gets boring after about five minutes. Don't lie, you know what I am talking about. The best I have every heard about cardio is ‘I don't mind it.' In other words, I get really bored, but I will keep doing it cause it works. Being bored is horrible. Being Bored is even worse when you know you have another 25 min left and seconds crawl by like eons. So what gives. Why does cardio have to be so boring? I think it's a safety issue. In real world if you go running or play soccer for example, you environment and all its inputs are constantly changing; you run by different scenery, you miss shot on goal. These changing characteristics are what make whole process fun. In gym, however, since space is limited, you have to do your cardio rooted to one spot. Very little happens to your environment to elevate boredom. Imagine though, if you could have all excitement of a soccer game while sitting on a recumbent health cycle? At first you may think it's a great and fun idea. No more boring cardio! Think about it and it becomes a little terrifying. The sheer amount of stimuli hitting you from all angles, your mind would exhaust quickly and you would run risk of injury (not to mention getting overwhelmed). That is why cardio machines are so boring. They design them to be boring so you don't hurt yourself. So when you climb up onto your favorite elliptical trainer, remember that its boring for a reason.
| | Thinking Too Much: How to Motivate Yourself to Lose WeightWritten by The Icon Diet Reader
By: Icon Diet Reader It's winter and it's cold. In winter mornings are very humbling. The nights are long, floor is cold and it sucks leaving house in dark. Getting morning paper involves a blast of cold air from front door that really motivates one to crawl back into bed. It's days like these that getting beyond duvet is hard. It's even harder to drag yourself through wintry morning to gym. It's kind of thing I think about before I go to bed. I think about it when I'm waking up and I really think about it when I am trudging through icy air en route to gym. But see that's problem. I think about it too much. Imagine if you could wake up every day with a clean slate and not remember bone shaking cold and wind chill. Imagine you could only retain positive memories of working out and improving your overall fitness. Then getting out of bed even on coldest, most miserable days, would be easy. Instead we have to fight tooth and nail to resist urge to go back to bed. It's our minds that want to be cozy. For a fair portion of North America, this article will have little barring on your life as you fortunate few live in more temperate climates. But you look beyond references to cold and see that what is really at stake is ability of our minds to convince us that going to gym is just far too difficult. It may not be a weather issue but your mind is a creative thing and will find some creative ways keep you from gym.
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