Sarah Wassner Flynn has an article on SheKnows.com entitled Get Motivated to Exercise with Mental Fitness: Mental and Physical Fitness.  In the article, she offers up several ideas to keep mentally fit while you work on getting physically fit.

• Positive Fitness Affirmations
• Avoid Destructive Distractions
• Visualize Victory

Those three steps help ensure that you are getting the most out of your workout.  It is amazing that one’s frame of mind can have such an impact on one’s physical fitness level.  In today’s world with books like “The Secret” becoming more popular, people are starting to realize the link between our personal mental world and our personal physical world. 

Here is an excerpt from Flynn’s article:

Exercise just isn’t exercise without a little bit of agony and hard work – otherwise, it wouldn’t be called a “work” out. But these discomforts can also stir up a truckload of negative energy that may foil your attempts at fitness, says Bobby McGee, a sports psychologist and running coach to winning Olympians and author of Magical Running. To stay mentally tough, try a little optimism. “The right mind frame can get you through many rough patches during exercise,” says McGee. And here are his tips on getting past those tough times while staying mentally and physically strong during your next big workout.