Whether working for the perfect summer body or working out to improve your overall health and fitness, working out should be an activity that helps one improve their overall confidence and boost health and fitness. However, when you leave the gym feeling worse about your body, this significantly reduces your psyche and overall morale for going to the gym altogether. This might stem from a myriad of reasons, like the instructor is using counterintuitive measures to “motivate” you, but really, they are just shooting down your confidence.
Being a Perfectionist
You may be new to the gym and finding it hard to get your reps and sets right. Leaving your instructor yelling at you about how you are wasting your time and won’t do much for yourself if you don’t get your form right. The mind tends to remember negative words to protect you from future misgivings. You find that you generally associate gym time with a scolding session from your instructor, and therefore, you make little to no progress with your goals.
Instant Gratification
With all these advertisements about how one can drink slimming tea and magically lose weight, it’s mind-boggling to those who hit the gym and work out, yet they lose no weight. It is a general concern with the current generation of people who want things to happen instantly. Working out is a gradual process that needs patience, a good diet, and a bit of discipline to achieve the goals one has set. Therefore, if you stand on a scale before a workout session and stand on the same scale and see no change, you are left feeling like a terrible underachiever.
Believing in the Hype
The hype is such a momentary phenomenon that many people believe. But the truth is hype comes and goes just as fast as it came. If one goes into the gym believing they can pull off gains or losses as easily as A B C, they will be mentally hammered down as soon as they realize it takes a lot to achieve fitness goals. Those who come to this realization can either make the most of it and stay consistent or feel bad about themselves after every workout and subsequently quit.
Feeling Bad
You may feel bad about your body due to the pains that come with muscle fracture and soreness. This is a sensation that many gym enthusiasts know too well. If one doesn’t do enough stretching or a proper gradual increase in weight lifting, they may end up hurting themselves and feeling inadequate in the real sense. Break anything, but don’t break your heart by not doing the due diligence of not appropriately warming up for a workout session.
Take Away
Feeling bad about yourself after a workout is an issue embedded within a person’s mentality, and the best way to deal with the thoughts in your brain is by lifting more weights.…