Visualize Yourself in Action

It's been a cool and rainy day and I've been painting on my porch, trying to finish at least the first coat. I've been outside most of the afternoon and I'm tired. But considering the poor food choices I've been making recently and the new bulge in my waistline, I began thinking about rounding off my day with a power-walk in the neighborhood.  At this point, I think anything COULD have come along and convinced me to do anything but walk. I was tired and the weather wasn't exactly conducive to being outside. But it was just at that moment, at the point of indecision, that I purposefully visualized myself on a specific street in my neighborhood power-walking. I held that image in my mind until I finished cleaning up and changed clothes. It was as if I had already walked.

TAKE-AWAY:  Visualization can be a very powerful technique in your fitness toolbox. By holding an image in your mind of you engaged in fitness training, you increase your chances of actually performing the activity. Try it.