In the age of information, many of the principles of health and fitness have become all but common knowledge.
Nevertheless, there's a very clear divide between those people who become successful and losing weight and staying useful and those who don't. Why is that? And what can you do to improve your chances of being in the successful minority as opposed to the unsuccessful majority?
When it comes to the world of weight loss and being fit, there are often two areas that help to determine what you can expect for your efforts.
- Genetic factors
- Psychological factors
Most of the information out there's geared around the Genetic factors and how to compensate for any ordinary shortcomings with a accurate amount of physical activity and dieting.
One of the most popular topics along the lines of genetics is that of body type. Anatomical body type is generally broken down into 3 basic groups: ectomorphic, mesomorphic, and endomorphic.
Ectomorphic types are characterized as people with thin, up and down body frames who have the easiesttime keeping their weight under control. Basketball players and runway models will often fit into this category.
Mesomorphic body types are characterized as people with athletic frames and ofttimes muscular, well proportioned bodies. Bodybuilders and dancers will often fit in here.
Endomorphic body types tend to be generally round figures and will often have the most trouble in keeping unwanted weight off of their bodies.
Most of us are combinations of two or more of these types with one being more dominant than the others. One important note about these anatomical types is that while they may give some insight to how you look on the outside, they can deceive us as to how healthy you're internally. Many people who may be thin are literally decaying inside due to foremost habits.
By contrast, there are many people who are not stereotypically thin, but are pictures of healthy due to healthy lifestyles.
The general role of knowing your body type is to get an explanation of how your body will tend to respond to your diet and lifestyle in terms of how easy or challenging it may be for you to hold it together in premeditated areas. Another way of classifying your body is by which of your hormone - producing glands dominates the way you process nutrients in the food you eat.
These Glandular types will fall into one of 4 categories: adrenal, thyroidal, pituitary, or gonadal. The explanation of each is undoubted similar to that of the anatomical body types above. The adrenal type tends to correspond with the mesomorphic anatomical type. The thyroidal is similar to the ectomorphic, and the pituitary to the endomorphic.
The gonadal type is a women only classification that's a hybrid of being slender on the top but somewhat larger below the waist with a greater amount of body fat. The gonadal body type among women is more commonly referred to as being pear shaped.
There's a questioning type of body classification that you may come across that originated in Ancient India. It has to do with Doshas - how the energy fields of the earth and your physical mass interact to influence how you feel.
This isn't directly related to the physical aspect of weight loss but tends to give you an idea on how what psychological advantages or challenges you may have when it comes to getting and staying fit.
This brings me to a major extent of clarity in this article:
As valuable as all of the body type information may be to dirt your body, it is not the end all that it's often marketed to be.
You're neither guaranteed to look and feel great nor doomed to be overweight and unhealthy simply based on your genetics and body classification. Body types should only be used to give you insight on what advantages or challenges that you may have in your quest for life long fitness not a life or death sentence that limits what you can achieve.
In reality, the Psychological factors related to how you look and feel are really where the rubber meets the road in weight loss and staying healthy and fit.
It's here that you'll find the tools to overcome whatever physical challenges that you are faced with. Therefore, it's here locality you absolutely cynosure the majority of your energy if you're become and remain notable with your health and fitness goals.
One thing that many people don't consider is how the knowledge of their body type and what that means affects their psychological outlook in the head place.
Many fit people who look great because they eat right and exercise accomplish so because they already believe that they've got something that's valuable and maintained. Therefore, their healthy lifestyle is just a matter of course.
The importance of the effect that your outlook on your results cannot be ignored. To put it plainly, your outlook directly affects your output.
If you don't happen to be one of those people who seem to naturally have it together when it comes to your body, then what you'll need to do is simply tap into the strength of your own psyche to push you valuable do.
There are 5 Key Steps that you need to follow in succession to take accrual of your own reservoirs of power, drive, and confidence.
Self acceptance
In order for any of this to work, you'll want to either have or generate of certain level of self acceptance for your body and all of its great points as well as its weaknesses.
This doesn't mean that you've to be satisfied with yourself when you may be out of shape. What is does mean, however, is that you've to be OK with having your best body - not someone else's.
Find the keys to your own motivation
Different things work for different people. While there may be 4 or 5 body types, there are alike more different personality types. You may want to fling several contradistinctive types of motivational apparatus to see which one you respond to best for the results you want. Here are a few ideas of things to endeavor:
- Having a workout / diet buddy
- Motivational books and tapes
- Imagining how you'll look and stroke when you reach your personal best
- Thinking of the quality of life benefits of being healthy and fit
Once you've figured out what works for you, drown yourself in it! If it works, then work it. Take mammoth advantage of the #1 factor in successfully achieving weight loss and maintaining perceptible fitness.
Maintain your progress by making fitness a lifestyle
As many of you know by now, I'm not a fan of traditional diets. They simply wrap up not work. More than person else, it's your day to day lifestyle that will determine what results you get, and your psychological temper is what either drives you to or pulls you right away from the activities that form that lifestyle.
There's simply no reason on earth that you cannot be one of the successful people when it comes to weight loss and fitness.