How To Tone Your Arms Up With Mental Optimization

What prevents most women from being able to tone arms? Setbacks called “dips” that throw many women off the wagon.

And this is where most women fail: they usually start strong, but once things get difficult they jump ship. Seth Godin called this the dip.

Unfortunately, they are too obsessed with finding the perfect diet and exercise program. Even worse, some are obsessed with finding a magical potion that will solve all their problems while they watch TV!

Now I’ll be honest here, staying motivated towards a goal for extended periods of time is NOT easy, but it’s doable. And today I would like to share 4 rapid-fire strategies so that you don’t get stuck in your dip:

1. ONLY use anger for short periods of time. If you find yourself constantly angry or upset, your body is being flooded with cortisol. And no amount of clean eating or exercise can reverse this. In case you didn’t know, cortisol eats muscle which lowers your metabolism which lowers the amount of calories you burn 24/7. However, anger can be extremely effective when used for short bursts of activity like a workout.

2. Lower your self-imposed standards for progress. Women with lower standards make more progress because they keep on sprinting forward regardless of small hiccups and they don’t get caught up with the minutiae. Perfectionists, however, find it very hard to take action unless every single star is perfectly aligned.

3. Employ self-imposed deadlines. You’ve been conditioned to respond to deadlines your ENTIRE life, so why not take advantage of this? Moreover, applying a ridiculous deadline will force you to execute on the critical few tasks required for the desired outcome. You could, for instance, give yourself 3 hrs. to clean out your kitchen of all junk food and restock it with sexy arm food. Although you’ll have to hustle, it’s doable! And you won’t have time to get distracted!

4. Expose yourself to what you fear, again and again. This is an extremely effective strategy for desensitizing yourself from what you fear. The key here is to take it inch by inch. If you are terrified of gyms, for instance, you could spend a couple days walking around a gym for a couple minutes without doing ANY exercise. If anybody asks you what you’re doing, simply tell them you’re checking out the equipment to see if the gym is a good fit. Once you are comfortable, you can begin exercise little by little to tone arms.

If you want to tone arms, don’t go around in circles by only focusing on diet and exercise. You have to optimize your thought processes to ensure long term success and this is where most women fail.

Now remember to start applying these tips today or else you will forget this information very quickly.

Author Katherine Crawford, a fitness physiologist and former flabby arms sufferer, instructs on how to do excellent tricep arm exercises for women. Figure out how to get sexy and sculpted arms by exploring her blog with shake weight reviews now!