Can Quercetin Help You “Want” to Train?
Getting Ready for the Gym
You come home from work after a long and hectic day and decide to take a “load off” and sit on the sofa for a few minutes and flip on the tv before you get ready to head out to the gym. That sofa is pretty damn comfy and soon you are sitting in it, as it engulfs your body, making it harder and harder to get out of it, (except of course to go get some snacks from the kitchen).
The problem is you know you should go to the gym and train and even want to but your motivation is waning and besides you need to catch up on the news of the day, check your email, play with the dogs and the flood of excuses now begins to fill your brain. For the most part, though, we’ll get up and get it done, even if we really don’t feel like it.
Motivation begins in the brain and we all have our unique motivational strategies for getting our things done and goals accomplished. The converse of “the mind is willing but the body is weak” can be a bigger problem and it is motivation that separates an active person from an inactive one. Those of us who train regularly have a strategy that works most of the time and it usually involves discipline and good “self-talk” when we get lazy,
Now, apparently, there is a new way to improve the willingness and tolerance for exercise and it still involves the brain, but it comes in a pill and certain types of food. It is called Quercetin.
Life Enhancement:: Quercetin Improves Exercise Tolerance
For me, it is probably best if I don’t sink into the sofa until after I train.
Tagged with: Exercise • exercise tolerance • motivation • Quercetin
Filed under: Nutrition • Research • Training Tips
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The whole point of exercise is that initial getting off the butt being made part of a routine you can’t get out of because it is slotted into your weekly timetable. To close your mind and just go to the gym that day and it always works out OK.
The moment [and you know this well, Mark] you’ve made some gains, you’re loathe to lose the progress. I hate losing what I’ve built up. Then it becomes perpetuating and all is well.
Having made some great gains through the years and let them atrophy away was a huge waste. Even if you are injured, there is something you can still do unless the injury was catastrophic. Rebuilding what you let slip away is much harder than simply overcoming a little occasional inertia to maintain or grow. Of course, this is compounded as you get older. So yeah, there is a little fear motivation going on as well!