Getting Through Workout Slumps

(About.com Bodybuilding) - The process of transforming and improving your physique can be long. Don't let impatience or plateaus prevent you from pushing yourself harder in your workouts and performing at a level that will yield results. Look for the "green light" and don't let anything stop you from moving past frustration and closer to your goal.

Do you ever wonder what kind of mind power and passion enables one to continually succeed in their training and achieve results? Are you one to have days or perhaps weeks of accomplishments in the gym only to meander off the road by losing gas, becoming unfocused by the roadkill of self-doubt or the knowledge that you are fast approaching the big hill you have never gone beyond? If this is you, you must come to realize the well-worn paths in your training roadmap and seek to move past them.

If you've been training for any length of time, you may know this path all too well. You will have 3 great weeks where the body, mind, and spirit are one. The diet is good, the training is inspired, nothing can stop you. Nothing. You believe!

But ahh, there it is, a certain shape or comfy weight starts to emerge and panic arises over the approaching arbitrary stop light at the intersection of "At-Least-I'm-At-The-Gym" and "It's-Okay-To-Just-Maintain Road". Life, money, job, relationships, the routine, the beautifully shaped "already there" bodies become rooftop cargo that reduce your speed. Suddenly, a car blazes past and you feel like perhaps you've wandered down the wrong street.

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