The exercise is one of the best things we can do to stay fit and healthy. Being healthy is about mental and physical fitness. Humor triggers joy and fun to support our mental well-being and can help strengthen our immune system, cause the development of our energy, decrease pain and relieve stress. Humor lightens your burdens and the hope of raising awareness, and keeps you grounded, focused and attentive. Humor can explain how to work out.
It 'easy to find humor in life,so go for it. Humor is a motivator; use it to your advantage while working out. Here are five phrases commonly used as motivators that you probably never thought about as being humorous, until now. They can be humorous enough to provide a extra boosts while working out. Don't be embarrassed to let out a laugh while working out.
Setting the stage; you are 15 to 20 minutes into your work out. Your heart rate is climbing; perspiration begins to build on your body. The music is pumping and you glance at the clock on the wall. Not even half way through the work out. Your mind starts wandering; daily priorities, shopping list, text or tweet, meeting...anything other than your work out. Suddenly a command is barked at the group. "It wouldn't be called work out if it weren't work." Oh! How funny is that thought! Is it working for you? Laugh and refocus. Five minutes pass. Now you are pushing harder to maximize your work out. Another command; "If it were easy, everyone would be doing it." Right, why else would you be putting your body through this? And you chuckle to yourself, this is everyone.
Refocus, 15 minutes more when suddenly you hear "one minute". Pushing hard for that minute may seem like a lifetime when suddenly you hear "fifteen seconds, you can do anything for fifteen seconds". Ha! Not necessarily but laugh and say okay, it's a good thought. Can't help but laugh at that thought, right. Another glance at the clock and time is slowly ticking away when the instructor, full of energy and enthusiasm belts out "Last Set" and starts counting "16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 12, 12, 12..." Annoying, no humorous; and then the instructor starts all over again. What happened to the "Last Set" concept? This is humorous. Time continues to creep by when you begin noticing the whistles, calls, and strained energy beginning to resonate in the class from eager participants anxious to acknowledge the intensity of the work out, possibly laughing the entire time.
Try to find the humor in your exercising. Every work out is different and the reactions you have are unique to you. Since humor is a motivator, be on the lookout for it. Remind yourself to have fun while you are working out. It will increase your calorie burn. In fact, researchers at Vanderbilt University have even found that hearty laughter can burn calories equivalent to several minutes on the rowing machine or the exercise bike! In a nutshell, humor can get you through your exercise routine and anything else in life. Embrace humor wherever you are. It will motivate you.
