-Other Articles- Introduction A#1-Benefits of Bodybulding A#2-Choosing the Right Routine A#3-Do's & Don'ts of Effective Dieting A#4-Reaching the Next Level A#5-Time For A Change A#6-Faster Results With Supplements! A#7-Burning More Fat! A#8-What Motivates You? A#9-Aerobics the Right Way! A#10-Measuring Your Progress Don't Forget To Stretch! Holiday Diet Tips! Post Workout Meals Are You Overtraining? Rules To Eat By! (Part I.) Rules To Eat By! (Part II.) Rules To Eat By! (Part III.) Putting It All Together German Volume Training! Visions of Change P.T.S. At A Glance A Diet You Can Live With! Oh, My Aching Back! (Part I) Staying Motivated! To Carb or Not To Carb... Effective Ab Training! Are You Stressed? Are You Stressed? (Part II) Article #8 In This Issue......... I. What Motivates You? II.Creating The Right Motivation. This week we take a break from training information in order to take a closer look at our motivation. After all, if you're not motivated, all the training advice in the world can't help you. What Motivates You? People are internally and externally motivated. Let's take a look at external motivation. Externally motivated people are motivated by their environment. When something changes in their environment, so does their motivation. How do you know if you're externally motivated? Ask yourself the following questions. Be honest. Does your mood and attitude change when something or someone close to you changes? Do you only go to the gym on sunny days, even though it's inside a building? Do you need certain people to be near in order to feel motivated to exercise? If you answered "Yes" to any of the above questions, you are externally motivated. Externally motivated people tend to make more excuses when it comes weight training and dieting. Anything that changes in their environment can turn into a great excuse to miss a workout or eat the wrong foods. External motivation that inspires you to train is good but what we really want is to be able to motivate ourselves. We want to be internally motivated. Creating internal motivation is incredibly rewarding. Picture yourself never missing a workout again. Imagine eating the right food all the time. Life without being so affected by everything that surrounds us! Creating The Right Motivation How do you create internal motivation? Ask yourself a few more questions. What will your reward be when you reach your fitness goal? Does the reward justify all the hard work? Is it really worth it? If you can't think of a good enough reward, maybe your time would be better spent doing something more rewarding. Hopefully you'll realize that the rewards of getting in shape outweigh the hard work and discipline that it takes to change your physique. Focus on the rewards and create your own internal motivation. Print this article. Send this newsletter to a friend. Copyright © 2000-2001 Powerful Training Systems. All rights reserved