How Intrinsic Motivation Will Get You Fit

Get-Fit Guy

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Health & Fitness, Sports

4.6 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Exercising consistently is hard. The only way to succeed is if your desire to get fit is greater than your desire to stay in bed. That is where intrinsic motivation becomes your best tool. Get-Fit Guy explains. Read the transcript. Subscribe to the newsletter to get more fitness tips. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/GetFitGuy https://twitter.com/GetFitGuy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.
0:07.7	My name is Brock Armstrong, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.
0:10.6	Motivation is a tricky topic.
0:13.3	How we get motivated, stay motivated, create motivation, and recreate motivation is and always has been a hot topic in the world of exercise and fitness.
0:24.2	And trust me, you are not the only one who doesn't feel motivated every single morning
0:29.9	to lace up your runners and get your heart rate up.
0:32.6	Even professional athletes occasionally have to drag their butts to practice.
0:37.7	So, okay, with that in mind, what is motivation?
0:42.5	Well, in 1993, French researchers Valerand and Thill wrote a paper called
0:48.8	Interluxa de la Motivation, in which they described motivation as a hypothetical construct used to describe the internal
1:00.5	and or external forces that produce initiation, direction, intensity, and persistence of behavior.
1:09.2	Now that is quite a brain teaser, so let's break it down.
1:13.6	The main reason I like this definition is that right out of the gate,
1:17.6	it states that motivation is a hypothetical construct.
1:22.6	It's not a fixed state, it's not measurable or provable, it's not something you can purchase or borrow,
1:29.2	it's not even something you can store up for later, and most importantly, it may not even exist.
1:35.1	Like the proverbial tree falling in an empty forest, if there's no one around to enjoy the
1:41.3	motivation, is it still there? Hmm.
1:46.0	The other reason I like this definition is because it identifies that the forces that drive us
1:51.0	to feel this hypothetical construct are both internal and external.
1:57.0	Now you may have heard of this as being referred to as intrinsic and extrinsic motivation,
2:02.6	and we'll get into that in a bit.
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