By Team Beachbody
Most of us are aware that supplements can enhance our diet and help us get more out of an exercise program. This is true, of course, but there is another reason that sticking to a strict supplementation regime can enhance your workouts: motivation.
Taking supplements is the easiest way to keep your program on track, since all you have to do is swallow a few pills and, at most, mix up a shake. Once you begin to take the time and effort to supplement your diet-which is very easy and painless-you have given yourself a good reason not to slack off on the next workout.
Why? Because you realize that you are going through the trouble to give your body extra energy and recovery powers and your brain starts to believe that you need to workout. It's the easiest way in the world to become regimented because you can just do it. There is no pain, no suffering, just a slight alteration in your daily schedule.
Consider this: Why do so many athletes come back stronger after an injury? The reason is that it becomes imperative that they regiment themselves. Rehab requires discipline, so their training becomes more disciplined than it was previous to the injury. The necessity of discipline makes them work out more efficiently. The injury forced them to train the right way or re-injure themselves, so it became a serendipitous motivator.
Getting injured is a drastic way to force yourself to workout, but starting a regimented supplementation program is easy and starts your brain working in a similar pattern: "I took my supplements, that means I am behaving in a healthy way, that means I need to exercise today." You might be very surprised to see just how easily the rest of that pattern follows suit.
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