How to Create a Lasting Exercise Routine and Enhance your Performance

Imagination is a powerful force that enhances your performance of anything you do especially exercise.  This has been known by top athletes for years.

If you hate working out and dislike how your body feels afterwards, than it becomes less likely for you to workout again.

Studies show that when you associate a positive feeling with an action it is more likely for you to choose that action again.  We associate feelings with actions.

Freud first spoke about this neuroplastic idea in 1888 but today it is referred to as Hebb's Law.   Freud theorized that when two neurons fire simultaneously, this firing facilities their ongoing association.  Freud emphasis that what links neurons is their firing together over time (neurons control movement). Neurons that fire together wire together.

You can improve the way you feel about exercise by recalling a very positive memory during your workout that results in a palpable feeling in your body or even make you smile. Then take on that next exercise while maintaining that good feeling.

This is why imagination and feeling that you like your workout, during and after, is important factor in maintaining and creating a healthy lifestyle.