Creativity Breeds Success in Fitness & Life

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

27 Sep 2006 09:00 AM

Whether you are learning how to use a new piece of equipment or perform new exercises or playing a new game, learning new activities has multiple benefits. As your skill increases in new activities, your inspiration and creativity increases as well. Considering new ways to intensify or experiment with your exercise and further increase your skill level begins. You will also become more creative in trying to combine efficiency and effectiveness in your workout.

Be Creative

Creativity is a life skill. It's a way of looking at life. It's a way of performing in life. Creativity isn't just about painting a beautiful picture, it's about being able to see the potential for the beautiful picture. It takes talent to put the picture on the canvas; it takes creativity to see the picture that could be on the canvas. Being creative in your fitness isn't about jumping on every new piece of equipment or choreographing a new aerobic dance - it's about seeing that if you hate using aerobic training machines, that you can go for a walk three times a day outdoors and achieve the same effect.

Opening your mind to the possibilities means that you see using resistance bands as a way of maximizing your workout and it doesn't cost $2500 like a Bowflex does. Creativity says that if you interval train, increasing your intensity for a minute or two every five or ten minutes of your regular aerobic workout then you might achieve better endurance, heart-lung capacity and more.

Open Your Mind to the Possibilities

Creativity is how we use visualization as well. The creative mind doesn't just see what's there, it sees what could be there. When you begin a fitness program, you know what it is you want to achieve. You know you may want to look more toned. You know you may want to lose weight. You know you may want to feel fit. Creativity helps you to see yourself how you will be not at the time of the workout but after several workouts and adjustments to your diet and lifestyle.

Creativity helps to motivate you and it helps to generate success. So don't just look at what's there, look at what could be there and then don't just look at the marked path to get there, but look at all the ways you can get there. How do you use creativity in your fitness and life?

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Learn more about Heather Long

Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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