http://warriorfitness.org/2010/02/22/motivation/ Are you Fit to be a Warrior? Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:29:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://warriorfitness.org/2010/02/22/motivation/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Jon Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:19:46 +0000 http://warriorfitness.zenwatermedia.com/?p=8#comment-32 Excellent stuff, Dave - way to lead from the front! Excellent stuff, Dave – way to lead from the front!

]]> http://warriorfitness.org/2010/02/22/motivation/comment-page-1/#comment-31 David C. Furukawa Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:46:32 +0000 http://warriorfitness.zenwatermedia.com/?p=8#comment-31 Passing along my own personal motivation goals during this "year of the tiger"is something of a dream come true.Teaching my kid's class on Tuesdays as well as my adult class on Thursdays keeps me thinking about training, constantly.Sometimes I'll mention to my Buyu what they'll need to bring to class...sometimes I'll surprise them.Teaching Budo Taijutsu is a great way to stay in shape.If you can't do it...how can you teach your students? I love training outdoors and I must admit I'm a terrible spectator.I need to be right in the middle of the action.So NINPO has so many opportunites to do the things I like to do.On the weekends I'm kayaking,Scuba diving,tree-climbing(arbornautics),shooting,blade throwing,archery and many other activities outside the realm of our indoor training.Taijutsu is the foundation,but there is alot more training out there.Find it and do it.Take care! Dave Passing along my own personal motivation goals during this “year of the tiger”is something of a dream come true.Teaching my kid’s class on Tuesdays as well as my adult class on Thursdays keeps me thinking about training, constantly.Sometimes I’ll mention to my Buyu what they’ll need to bring to class…sometimes I’ll surprise them.Teaching Budo Taijutsu is a great way to stay in shape.If you can’t do it…how can you teach your students?
I love training outdoors and I must admit I’m a terrible spectator.I need to be right in the middle of the action.So NINPO has so many opportunites to do the things I like to do.On the weekends I’m kayaking,Scuba diving,tree-climbing(arbornautics),shooting,blade throwing,archery and many other activities outside the realm of our indoor training.Taijutsu is the foundation,but there is alot more training out there.Find it and do it.Take care!
Dave

]]> http://warriorfitness.org/2010/02/22/motivation/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Tony N Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:34:16 +0000 http://warriorfitness.zenwatermedia.com/?p=8#comment-16 The biggest hurdle for me is that plans keep changing. Take tonight for example, I was stuck at work late, I got home and dinner was already made. The original plan was to get home, workout a bit and then eat, followed by a relaxing time on the couch. Because of circumstances beyond my control I could not follow the original plan. Isn't it all too easy to bail on the exercise now? A voice says "oh well, it just wasn't meant to be", "guess I don't have to feel guilty though, after all if it wasn't for my job.....". Instead of abandoning the plan, I change the plan. OK, well maybe I can do a different shorter routine, it doesn't have to rough, and I need to let the food digest a while. That doesn't stop me doing something though. Even if I just do some very light movements for 20mins I win. If I do nothing, then I lose. Keep losing and I become a 'loser'. Not in the eyes of others, we aren't talking schoolyard names here. I mean internally I am a loser, because I don't even admit to myself that in order to achieve something worthwhile I have to work for it. Well, thats how I motivate myself, I change the plan so that I get a small victory, in fact perhaps that is a greater victory if it was harder to achieve. The biggest hurdle for me is that plans keep changing.
Take tonight for example, I was stuck at work late, I got home and dinner was already made. The original plan was to get home, workout a bit and then eat, followed by a relaxing time on the couch. Because of circumstances beyond my control I could not follow the original plan. Isn’t it all too easy to bail on the exercise now? A voice says “oh well, it just wasn’t meant to be”, “guess I don’t have to feel guilty though, after all if it wasn’t for my job…..”.
Instead of abandoning the plan, I change the plan. OK, well maybe I can do a different shorter routine, it doesn’t have to rough, and I need to let the food digest a while. That doesn’t stop me doing something though. Even if I just do some very light movements for 20mins I win. If I do nothing, then I lose. Keep losing and I become a ‘loser’.
Not in the eyes of others, we aren’t talking schoolyard names here. I mean internally I am a loser, because I don’t even admit to myself that in order to achieve something worthwhile I have to work for it. Well, thats how I motivate myself, I change the plan so that I get a small victory, in fact perhaps that is a greater victory if it was harder to achieve.

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