Get Fit Brain Hacks: Psychological Triggers for Amplifying Fitness Motivation

75 Pages·2016·0.6 MB·English

by  Brent Phillips

Introduction
About Me
Your FREE Gift!
Change Is Not Impossible!
Habits of Today Drawn from the Habits of Your Childhood
How Positive and Negative Habits are Triggered in Relation to Your Fitness
Becoming Consciously Aware to Break Bad Habits
Physical and Mental Triggers that affect our Lifestyle
Our 5 major senses role to triggering fitness
Identifying your Fit Triggers
Amplifying Your Fit Triggers
Avoid Cravings By Understanding Your Triggers
The Reasons why and How to Overcome Overeating
21 New Habits to a Healthier YOU!
For the Beginner
For the Intermediate
For the Expert
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21 Day Routines that will create a Craving for Fitness!
THE LIFE CHANGER! Routine 1
FAT BURNER! Routine 2
ENDURANCE FOR THE JOURNEY! Routine 3
The NO Gym NO Time Habit Forming Workout
EXERCISE INDEX
Your Journey Starts Here!
Conclusion
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Introduction

Whenever I go to the mall, I always find myself getting thirsty. I don’t know
exactly why it is so, but it always happens. I can even be there for about an hour
and find myself feeling like I really need a drink. It could be that the mall is an
excessively dry place, or it could be that from the time I was a small kid the mall
was a place where we got soda with mom as a treat for behaving well while she
shopped. The mall is one of my triggers to get a “treat”, so when I became aware
of it, I no longer go by the food court there. Instead I carry a bottle of water in
my backpack because I know I’m going to get thirsty, and I don’t have to crash
my diet just because I made a visit to the mall. While this may seem like a small
habit to break, all the little small habits that used to keep me from my best health
used to take over my life!
I would get up too late for exercise, and think maybe I’ll get into a workout after
work. I would forget to pack a lunch and eat crummy fast food, and then I would
feel so low energy at the end of my workday that I, of course, would not
exercise. My dinners were thought of last minute, so some form of high fat high
sodium food always ended up on my plate. Guilt would overwhelm me,
frustration with myself took over my consciousness, and yes I would mentally be
beating myself up. Truth be told, I have always loved healthy foods, exercise and
the feeling of accomplishment I get from it, but somehow my life habits were
not allowing me to achieve that lifestyle. I missed my fit runners body that I
once enjoyed only years before, and I longed to find that person who felt so good
about one-self once more. Does any of this sound familiar? It’s a vicious circle
we allow ourselves to become swallowed up in. I knew I had to start somewhere.
So without any real plan I asked for a gym membership for my Christmas
present. I started going to the gym at random times everyday whenever it fit in. I
would get on the elliptical machine, and my heart rate would go up really fast; I
was so out of shape! My family seeing me in anguish over my body decided to
come to the gym with me on some occasions. Suddenly, I wasn’t so alone – I
kept seeing people at the gym with a trainer, and one day I decided I needed a
personal trainer of my own. It was a mortifying reality-my weight, my body fat
percentage, the amount of food I was supposed to be eating, but now I was in
control. I was no longer hiding from my reality and my trainer helped me design
and make some plans for my health and fitness journey, to change my old habits
for new ones. My trainer was telling me things that I already knew, but I just
wasn’t applying them to my life. It wasn’t easy at first, I had many failures –bad
days, good days, high energy days, reverting back to the old habits days and then
back on track. As I became more consistent, I realized that it’s really all about
making small changes: bringing lunch with me to work, having a plan when
there was a birthday party, planning my workouts like they were priority
appointments. It just started coming together. Soon the person I knew was inside
was finally having a chance to thrive and be healthy and fit once more. I was so
inspired and determined to help the world around .me, that I became a certified
personal trainer. My life is a continual change for the better, but I am in control;
I choose –and if I can change my life, then so can you! When you read this book,
I hope that you will be real with yourself. Take time to review your life, review
your habits: your mental habits and your physical habits because your mind,
body and soul are all connected and when one part of your life is out of whack,
then it tends to affect the rest of your life. Make yourself aware of your
unconscious habits: are they helping you, or are they hurting you? Everyone has
some area that they can work on to become the very best -version of themselves:
the healthy and fit person that has had successes in every aspect of their life. I
hope this book inspires you to be the very best YOU that you can be!
About Me

Well I will keep this short and simple as this website is not about me, it is about
giving back to those who seek wellness in their life by providing the most recent
and top ways to create habits out of your fitness.
With that being said, my name is Brent Phillips. I was born in a small town
called Grimsby in Canada Ontario and now currently live in the “Hammer
Town” AKA Hamilton.
My passion is being healthy, loving life and always being positive and lifting up
those around me. This may sound cliché, but ask anyone I know and they will
tell you that 95 %of the time that is what comes out of my mouth: how to be
positive and live life to the fullest. My credentials are not of a master that says
he knows everything or the ones that do have and can provide extensive
knowledge, however my credentials come from firsthand experience with a little
bit of education. I believe that is where you learn the most in life. I do have a
college diploma in physical health and fitness, but I have a master’s degree in
being physically fit, enjoying life and always lifting spirits around me. So my
degree comes from life experiences.
Experiences that I will be sharing with you as well as new innovative knowledge
that I learn along my life path journey of helping others create habits in their
fitness. So know that what you read in my blog at www.nutritionhabits.org or
hear from me is not knowledge coming from a master in the industry but
knowledge coming from first hand life experiences where I will share my honest
opinion, thoughts and facts to help you achieve fitness habits in your life!
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Change Is Not Impossible!

We all live our lives to some extent without even thinking about our day-to-day
routines. From the time we are very small we are trained to wake up, eat
breakfast, brush our teeth, comb our hair, and live a functional life for the most
part. These are the types of things that eventually become a lifestyle. Some of us
have more healthy habits and lifestyles that we were brought up with and some
of us have not so healthy habits and ways that we struggle with daily. Ask
someone why they continue to do some of those routines, and you will find
many say – “It’s just a habit.” They have no real reason other than somewhere in
their life they started to do that same thing over and over and now they just do it,
healthy or not! We make so many daily choices automatically, and those things
can be a detriment to the very person we desire to be, and keep us from being
our very best. We may even have the desire to change, and some of us have tried
to change our habits only to have failed or just to have lacked the tools to make
that new change. Many times we try to change our entire lifestyle all at once
only to become overwhelmed and then just give up. It’s a fact that only 8% of all
people complete their New Year’s resolutions each year.
If this is you, then I have good news for you. Change is not impossible! We all
have failed, and failing is what eventually brings us success. Our bodies are
made in a way that they are always learning; we are able to change if we just
realize that our bodies are connected with our mind, will and emotions. If one
area is lacking, because the whole body is connected, then we will lack in
another, but if we are able to overcome in one area, then we will be able to
overcome in another. Imagine if you were to be consciously deciding when to
get up, what to eat, and how and when to exercise, until it’s just a “habit” that
makes you into the very best person you can be. You are about to learn how.
Let’s just say you have had a bad day. Your client hated the work you thought he
would love. Your spouse is mad at you because you left your laundry on the
couch, your kids’ lives are putting all kinds of demands on your schedule, and
you didn’t sleep a wink last night. So you take yourself to get the biggest
caramel mocha latte with whip, of course! Why? Because somewhere in your
mind, you have a memory of sweets making you feel better. It could be that your
mom took you for an ice cream cone after you scraped your knee when you were
small or maybe you had a caramel mocha with whip a while back and your body
remembers the immediate emotion it felt from the sugar and caffeine rushing
into your veins or maybe it was the power of suggestion from one of your co-
workers who carried in a caramel mocha latte with whip and now YOU think
you need a caramel mocha whenever you are stressed out. Truth be told, the
stress or feelings of being upset are what we call a “trigger”. A trigger is any
feeling or sensation whether it’s physical or mental that causes you to react in a
certain way. Triggers can be physical, such as exhaustion, bursts of energy, or
even the location we are in, and triggers can be emotional such as sadness or
frustration, even elation.