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Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts
Saturday, April 12
Your Health and Lifestyle Survey
Friday, March 7
Why Gamercize Works
Simply Designed for Fun
All Gamercize products have one simple concept. Keep moving or get paused out until you start moving again. It's so simple but yet it confuses some commentators!
The key behind the success and effectiveness of Gamercize is that exercise is a small part of the experience. It is true Gamercize gives the best cardio workout out of all the mainstream video game exercise options, but what really makes the Gamercize concept work is we hide that physical effort from you.
How do we hide the effort from you? We use the real stars of the video game world: the great games you buy that keep you entertained for hours! Keeping exercise simple and detached from the game you're playing means we don't ruin the game play and you will forget you are exercising and concentrate on the fun part - playing the game.
Of course the games are so very entertaining you will slow down or stop exercising, so that's when the Gamercize concept kicks in - to pause the game until you start moving again. That happens a couple of times when you first start but your body soon gets the message and exercise becomes automatic.
Simple, it does appear, is best and there's no better than Gamercize for your self-motivation in kick starting a more active lifestyle that's not hard work - but real fun!
Saturday, December 29
Top 5 Gym Survival Tips
Avoid Problems with January Gym Membership
January and February are typically the times of year that commercial gyms pick up the most number of new members. The post-holiday gym rush also represents the highest drop out rate.
For people who regularly visit a gym the next two months is a struggle. The gym is crowded, the machines you want to work on are all being used, and you long for April - when you have the gym all to yourself again. Take these five tips with you to make sure you do not end up wasting money or become demotivated.
Tip 1: Never pay a full years membership in advance. Many special offers or attractive deals are tempting you to commit to a monthly fee for a whole year. Most new members do not last past 90 days, and you may be one of them. If you are going to quit the gym, make sure your pocket book can quit too.
Tip 2: Choose a gym that is located closest to your most regularly travelled location. A gym near home is appealing, but when your are so close to home it is all to easy to just "skip the gym tonight". A better option is a gym closer to your place of work, so you can pop out at lunchtime, maybe hit the weights before work if the traffic has been kind.
Tip 3: Do not be put off by the crowds of people and the apparent poor ratio of physical instructors to members. In April the gym will be much quieter, the staff will have more time for you, and fitness machines will be more available. Even after the first couple of weeks you should notice the gym is quieter, so hang on in there!
Tip 4: Make sure you enlist the services of a personal trainer. Good quality gyms will provide excellent fitness instructors to help with the use of the equipment, but if you are looking for better fitness or weight loss you will need a personal trainer to put together a program for you. They will help you sustaining motivation to keep going before you start to see the weight dropping off.
Tip 5: Check the equipment and facilities the gym has to offer, look for sauna, squash courts or maybe a swimming pool. These extras help motivation as fitness equipment can be very boring, and now highly anti-social, as everyone plugs into iPods. Ultimate gyms, such as two in my home town, will have Gamercize Pod fitness machines similar to the picture. A quick game of the latest Playstation or Xbox title never gets old, and is an excellent way to socialise and get fit.
Saturday, October 6
Reach the Next Level
Fitness Motivation by Stealth
Everyone knows exercising leads to increased fitness and fitness leads to enjoying a more active life. That is why there are gyms, fitness centers and home gym equipment. The biggest problem in reaching that elusive next level in life is maintaining motivation. How many people have bought home gym equipment, only to leave it unused after a few weeks? How many people have bought gym membership at the start of the year and give up going by April?
Too many. Time and money wasted, not because these approaches are no good, but because the improvement is so gradual it is easy to think you are getting nowhere and just give up. It's no fun, it's tough, you don't have the time and you can't see it making any difference. Very easy to understand, most of us have been there and done it.
Just think about PlayStation and Xbox now. How many people buy these things, and make excuses not to use them? How many Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo games consoles sit unused in the garage? Here is a proven formula for motivation and fun! What a shame playing video games is no good for you compared with playing on the sports field.
Attempting to put fitness into video games is not a new idea, it's been tried as long ago as 1982 by Atari. The problem is putting fitness into games has always focused on the exercise, taking away from the game in terms of quality or control. Remember the gym vs the console? - Motivation comes from enjoyment. Putting fitness into a racing game is a fair example of what I mean. The more effort you expend the faster the car goes. Great concept, but in practice it becomes tedious compared with the temptation to change the game for the shiny new disc which arrived in the post this morning and has the internet raving about gameplay and graphics.
So can you see why Gamercize is so popular and successful for people striving to reach the next level? Reduce the interaction, so exercise can be automatic. Like walking and talking on a phone, or running while listening to an iPod, like playing football on the beach or playing in the park with the dog - it is fitness by stealth with the focus on the fun.
Now change the game with that shiny new disc that arrived in the post this morning and the motivation is boosted even further.
Exercising with this much motivation, and without a conscious effort, will take you to the next level.
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