Exercise mindset:

It is a known fact that we live inside the body irrespective of who we are and what we do in life. First, one needs to take care of their body for the spirit to operate at its highest energy level. Regularly exercising the body makes every cell alive and active. A person can achieve a healthy lifestyle by means of regular exercise.

Body Mind relationship: Anyone who exercises regularly would agree that physical exercise not only influences the body but also the mind. A runner enjoys not only many physical benefits like a great cardiovascular system, an improved respiratory system, and stronger legs but also achieve a calm and relaxed mind. Such is the effect of the physical activity on the mind. This is because the mind and the body are one and the same. The mind is the subtler form of the body and the body is the gross form of mind.

Movement: There are movements in the body when we exercise. Exercise and movement are synonymous to each other. At the core level, the basic fundamental movements are the breathing movement and the movement due to the beating of the heart. Exercise becomes a lot more productive and enjoyable if we build the movement of the exercise in relationship to these core cardio-respiratory movements.

Exercise Rhythm: We can build a rhythm in any form of physical exercise. For example, a runner can match his strides to his breathing rate. The exercise becomes a lot easier and effortless once the movement is aligned to the cardio or respiratory rates. The exercise becomes effortless as the mind gets locked to the rhythm that one generates during the exercise. The Mind has unique characteristics of locking to the periodicity or rhythm.

Pain-Pleasure Windows: When we perform physical exercises, we experience pain or pleasure depending on the intensity of the exercise. We should perform the exercise precisely in the zone which is at the brink of the pleasure zone and the beginning of the pain zone. One cannot achieve the desired result when he exercises completely in the pleasure zone. The regularity and sustainment of the exercises cannot be achieved if one exercises in the pain zone.

Start point: Let there be a good reason for working out. As per the law of association, naturally we tend to associate the reason while we perform the workouts. If our reason for doing the exercise is to lose weight then that is the association which comes in the foreground of our mind whenever we perform workouts. This may become a bad association especially when we operate unknowingly in the pain zone of the pain-pleasure windows. On the other hand, when one associate workouts to “becoming healthy” or “changing lifestyle pattern” then those workouts yield better sustainable result due to the positive association.

So, the attitude towards the workouts has tremendous impact on the end result. A simple understanding of body-mind relationship, building an exercise rhythm and working on the precise point of pain-pleasure windows & good association to the workouts yield a greater and a more sustainable result.

Go with the right mind set when you attempt to work out and more importantly do the type of workout which you enjoy.