Proper cardio training is not just about training your body and cardiovascular system, it is also about developing enough cerebral agility to sustain your motivation and mental edge throughout the training.
Therefore here are some tips and simple mind tricks that will help you get this needed mental edge.
The toward Vs. the away from strategy
Biologically, our nervous system has 2 main functions: it moves toward pleasure or it avoids pain, period. The best part about this instinctive mechanism is that we can use it consciously to achieve any objective we are struggling with.
For example next time you are feeling off and don't want to do your cardio workout, make a mental picture of what will happen to your body and overall health when the workout is done; you could also picture all the pains and misfortunes you are avoiding by sticking to your training schedule.
Anchoring
Anchoring is the process of associative conditioning. The premise of this strategy is that you can run your own emotional state on command when you become familiar with what triggers certain responses and emotional states.
I learned this technique from Neuro-Linguistic-Programming and has proved itself to be very effective at the job. What makes it very powerful is that is easy to use and do not require any understanding of human psychology.
So next time you finished a great run, try to associate something with it. It could be a sound, a picture or even an object. For me I never run outside without my hat, and as soon as I put it on, my emotional state switches instantly into training mode.
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