1. Helping People Maintain Exercise

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

3. Overview Outside-In: Intervention, extrinsic Inside-Out: Experience Intrinsic Mindset: Motivation comes from within Developing Intrinsic Mindset

4. Two rules that apply to most people, NOT ALL: 1.Most people do not MAINTAIN exercise behavior for disease reduction. 2.Most people must develop an intrinsic mindset to MAINTAIN exercise.

5. Approaches to helping people maintain exercise

6. Approach 1 Outside-In 1.Disease 2.Information 3.Future –This approach deals with a “starter mindset” – Some kind of product related to a benefit

7. Approach 2 Inside-Out 1.Feels good 2.Enjoy 3.Mastery 4.Present –The inside-out approach is a “maintenance mindset.” You exercise because it makes you feel good, you love it, and you enjoy it!

8. Do you want to enjoy? Or Do you want be burdened?

9. 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

10. Find what you enjoy Ask what do you like to do for fun? –Biking? –Being outside? –Dog park? –Dancing? –Hanging out with friends?

11. Example with a Runner Jogger  Runner  Racer

12. Jogger Starter mindset –External reasons for exercising –Extrinsic motivation

13. Runner Intrinsic mindset –They enjoy it –It feels good

14. Racer Challenge their run! –KEEPING IT FUN!

15. THE ZONE Three essential needs 1.Personal Meaning 2.Flow 3.Inner-synergy

16. Personal Meaning Mindfulness vs. Mindlessness –Minimize comparisons –Focus on task –Ego and others

17. 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

18. Flow Make sure they have a goal Find ways of a measuring process Concentrate on what you’re doing Develop skills Help them not get bored

19. 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

20. Exercise Social Mental Spiritual ZONE