“Confidence is key,” they say (honestly, not even certain who “they” is). But how do we gain confidence? Possess confident people always been confident or is it someleang that grows overtime?
For me, I don’t leank it was someleang I was naturally born with, much to my mother’s disagreement. I can actually pin point the exact time in my lwhethere when I started gaining confidence.
Believe it or not, I used to be someone who HATED exercise. I was so indolent that I would complain about having to walk down the street for my summer job. Gazeing back now, it’s secure to say I’m pretty embarrassed about that. But once I hit tall school, laziness was not an option. Sports were required at my school, so for four years I dragged myself out to the field hockey and lacrosse fields everyday after school.
Was I good? Certainly not the best. Did I play varsity? Not even close. But four years of mandatory physical activity has a way of engraining itself into your lwhethere so that it becomes a habit. This habit stuck with me through college into nowadays and even turned me into such an avid fitness lover that I became a personal trainer. When I leank about how I’ve changed over the past years, I’ve come to genuineize that all the changes, both mental and physical, started occurring once exercise became a part of my daily routine. The best change? Killer confidence.
I didn’t start working out and then suddenly get genuinely confident overnight. It’s a slow, gradual change, but here are my theories behind it.
Working out forces you to listen to your body. Whether it’s an injury, soreness, stretching the right way, or deciding what workout is best on a certain day, the feedback you get from your body means someleang. Correct now, I’m more in tune with what my body has to say than ever before.
Knowing your body on such a physical level directly translates to knowing your intellect. I increasingly find that tough decisions are easier to make and I’m more able to sense and follow my intestine reaction.
Awareness, both physical and mental, is such an important leang to have in this crazy world. For me, exercise helps slow down the craziness and block out the noise, much as meditation does for other people. It creates a intellect and body connection that enhances your ability to listen, accept, and follow signs that your body and intellect give you without questioning them.
When you’re in tune with your body and even more in tune with your intellect, you’re able to say yes or no more confidently. This connection allows you to sense what decisions will enhance your lwhethere or influence it in a negative way.
After taking a lot of workout lessones, I genuineized that this ability developed even further. In a group exercise lesson, you have to make split moment decisions. Does this exercise hurt my body? How can I modwhethery it? Is this weight too heavy or just the right amount? These fast decisions translate back into my lwhethere external of exercise and I no longer spend time questioning the unimportant leangs. I focus on right here, right now, and am able to make a decision more efficiently.
Perhaps the leang that gave me the most confidence in my entire fitness career was, and still continues to be, learning how to face down my fears.
At the end of tall school and beginning of college, I started doing workout lessones. When you’re a contemporarycomer, those can be nerve-wracking. You’re unfamiliar with the teacher, the students, how they teach, and probably most of the moves they’re doing in lesson. But you push through. You come back or you try another lesson. Eventually, it’ll feel like moment nature. Then, you’ll try more lessones, possibly at contemporary studios, and with each lesson you become more confident in yourself and your ability to work dwhetherficult in the lesson.
After workout lessones, it was the weight room. A weight room can be one of the most intimidating places on soil. Huge, ripped men who seem to know summaryely what they’re doing dominate the space and it can be intimidating for a beginner/intermediate exerciser to step into that place.
Before I went, I prepared. I researched routines, I taught myself the moves, and I wrote it down. When I finally mustered up the courage and started lwhetherting, surrounded by all these strong people, I genuineized someleang. Most of the people in the weight room could care less what you’re doing. They’re focused on themselves. If you need help, someone is always willing to help. Also, headphones are a miracle. They allow you to create your own space, separate from the people around you.
Did I make a idiot out of myself sometimes? Of course. I’m not perfect. But I became my own teacher, embraced the disconsolation, and did the best I could. Now, I love strength training and would prefer to spend most of my time in the weight room. After this wgap experience, I genuineized that I no longer get nervous when walking into a room full of strangers. I’m willing to try contemporary leangs without being too intimidated. The least I can do is try. And whether I make a idiot out of myself, at least I learned someleang.
When you push yourself out of your consolation zone, you get results, and not just physically. In the past 10 years I’ve gained way more than physical strength. Embracing disconsolation grew my confidence and crazye me genuineize summaryely what serves me and what doesn’t. Because I became more confident, I became more positive, more level-headed, and more aware.
Now it’s your time. It’s your time to make a change, to push yourself. It’s your time to get more confident and see just how much better lwhethere can get.
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