Helping People Maintain Exercise

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Helping People Maintain Exercise
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First Question

• What is your primary motivation to exercise on a
  regular basis?
• Write the first reason that comes to mind.

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Overview

• Outside-In Intervention, extrinsic
• Inside-Out Experience
• Intrinsic Mindset Motivation comes from within
• Developing Intrinsic Mindset

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Two rules that apply to most people, NOT ALL

• Most people do not MAINTAIN exercise behavior for
  disease reduction.
• Most people must develop an intrinsic mindset to
  MAINTAIN exercise.

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Approaches to helping people maintain exercise
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Approach 1

• Outside-In
• Disease
• Information
• Future
• This approach deals with a starter mindset
  Some kind of product related to a benefit

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Approach 2

• Inside-Out
• Feels good
• Enjoy
• Mastery
• Present
• The inside-out approach is a maintenance
  mindset. You exercise because it makes you feel
  good, you love it, and you enjoy it!

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Do you want to enjoy?OrDo you want be burdened?
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How do you or how do we get people to move from
extrinsic to an intrinsic mindset?

• Extrinsic
• Reduce risk of disease
• Lose weight
• Future

• Intrinsic
• Feels good
• Enjoy
• Mastery
• Present

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Find what you enjoy

• Ask what do you like to do for fun?
• Biking?
• Being outside?
• Dog park?
• Dancing?
• Hanging out with friends?

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Example with a Runner

• Jogger ? Runner ? Racer

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Jogger

• Starter mindset
• External reasons for exercising
• Extrinsic motivation

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Runner

• Intrinsic mindset
• They enjoy it
• It feels good

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Racer

• Challenge their run!
• KEEPING IT FUN!

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THE ZONE

• Three essential needs
• Personal Meaning
• Flow
• Inner-synergy

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Personal Meaning

• Mindfulness vs. Mindlessness
• Minimize comparisons
• Focus on task
• Ego and others

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Personal Meaning Cont.

• Association vs. Disassociation
• Step by Step for progression MASTERY
• Help exercisers pay attention to what they are
  doing
• Breathing awareness
• Sensory awareness smell touch feel
• Visualization
• Disassociation Distraction
• Association tuning in with your body

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Flow

• Make sure they have a goal
• Find ways of a measuring process
• Concentrate on what youre doing
• Develop skills
• Help them not get bored

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Inner Synergy Movers

• Apply enhanced concentration to work and family
• Energy to do more
• Cohesion and social connection
• Integrate movement with other life breeds
• Love

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Social
Exercise
ZONE
Mental
Spiritual