The purpose of exercise is to touch a barbell or treadmill- to drive adaptation to get Meaningful Results.
Progressive, continual results are the product of Training, NOT exercise.
Meaningful Results are relative to your own unique purpose for training. Your purpose will have a particular time-sensitive (like the competition date or an active vacation) and measurable GOALS.
Once you have set your goals, you need the WILL to succeed.
To forge your Will, you need a new way of thinking that becomes a process of action to crush your goals, set new ones, and achieve beyond. That new way we call ODMR: Objectivity, Discipline, Motivation, Results.
Everyone gets motivated to start exercising from time to time. But as I have said in many places, 90% of people quit the gym within the first 90 days. The missing ingredient is sustained motivation.
The power of ODMR lies in the linear causal linkage between each element; being Objective leads to Discipline, Discipline leads to Motivation, and sustained Training Motivation leads to Results.
Read on to open the mental-psychological paradigm to live your best life.
Being Objective
The first condition for improving anything is being objective from the start. Before you begin improving your fitness, you must measure and test the critical metrics of your physical state and performance. StratFit uses only the most objective measurements and tests to assess the Pillars of Your Fitness.
Once we have these results, we know exactly where you stand—knowing that we will show you the Objective way to improve each of your pillars.
You might dread stepping on the scale, testing your vertical jump or bench press, or seeing where your Vo2 Max is, but to begin the fitness journey, we must know where we’re embarking from; we have to be OBJECTIVE.
Becoming Disciplined
Once you know where you stand and the process to get to the next level, becoming Disciplined is a matter of course.
Periodic checks-ins of your body composition and performance metrics inform you about the process and keep you objective. This clears the mind, and a clear mind is Disciplined.
A Disciplined mind can always push the body to be consistent, and this consistency is what gets you to the gym each day.
Finally Motivation
A riveting psychological transformation occurs after one is disciplined for a long enough period- Discipline morphs into Motivation.
Discipline is the power to stay consistent by pushing yourself to act even when you don’t necessarily want to.
Motivation is the desire to act, wanting to do something.
Essentially, what happens is you are disciplined for some time when training isn't very enjoyable, and you haven’t seen any noticeable results. You're getting through it with the force of the mind.
Little by little, you begin to notice that you feel better throughout your days, and your performance in other areas of life begins to improve.
This tends to occur around the same time you start to enjoy training during the sessions- you directly feel the invigoration of the physical exertion and want to do it just for the sake of it; here, training becomes autotelic.
au·to·tel·ic
/ˌôdōˈtelik,ˌädōˈtelik/
adjective
(of an activity or a creative work) having an end or purpose in itself.
Having Motivation is more enjoyable for the mind than being disciplined, so staying consistent becomes a matter of course when this transformation occurs.
From time to time, you will still have days when you are tired and won’t feel motivated. At those times, you have to fall back on Discipline, but that becomes rarer and rarer.
The Whole Point- RESULTS
How the last step of the ODMR process occurs is now apparent. Once you’re consistently motivated, your effort levels will be sufficient day in and day out, and you won’t miss many sessions.
Your mind will be clear and won't fall for exercise fads and gimmicks.
Achieving training Results will naturally follow.
Assessing the Results should be just as Objective as the initial testing.
You start the entire process again but at a higher level. Building and perfecting the pillars of your fitness is a life-long quest for you to become the best version of you and sustain it. You need it. The world needs it.
Contact us when you’re ready to get to the next level and beyond.
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