Rating Your Motivational Factors
Rating Your Motivational Factors
Motivation, what gets you going? What inspires you to do your best? An exercise to help individualize your training based on what motivates you involves a simple rating of twelve factors. Rate each on a scale of 1 through 10 or as low, medium, or high, and describe their impact on you and your volition.
1) Action. Actively partaking in training and/or competition.
2) Spectator. Watching others train or compete.
3) Coaching. Learning from coaches, books video and demonstrations.
4) Past experiences. Thinking about your past triumphs, hard fights, or enjoyable moments.
5) Future. Thinking about or constructing mental images about your future performances.
6) Feelings of well being. Mental or physical feelings associated with being fast, in shape or performing well.
7) Solo workouts. Working out alone or competing against your own personal record rather than against an opponent.
8.) Companionship. Working out with others for support, motivation or for the stimulus of competition.
9) Feedback. Discussions with coaches, athletes and friends about your performances and/or progress.
10) Competition. Being challenged by a worthy opponent, or the prospect of winning or outperforming yourself.
11) External motivations. Meeting or exceeding the expectations or goals set by coaches or friends.
12. Other. Anything else that motivates you.
I think that by actually having your motivational factors on paper in front of you, you can then use it as a baseline to improve your motivation, which in turn can have a big impact on your performance. Incorporating this into your training regimen, pick a goal that you would like to accomplish. perhaps it could be that you'd like to be loose and relaxed while you're your sparring, or that you want to be able to throw a good left hook. It could be a small or private goal, but remember that it has to be important to you.
Use this to develop highly motivated workouts, and to help you accomplish your goals. Know what your fighting for and keep that fire burning.
If you hear a voice within you saying that I am not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
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