While having a workout buddy can be essential to your success, it is also important to find a good match for you. Depending on your personality the partner you chose might make you or break you. Think about the way you approach a workout session and what you would need to get you going. Or maybe there is not just one type for you but a combination of different workout buddies?
Are you insecure and constantly think that you don’t know how to do it or that you can’t do it? Do you think that you don’t have the strength or endurance to complete a good workout? You would really like to do what it takes to get that fabulous body that you always dreamed about, but you just don’t believe in yourself?
If that sounds familiar, you need a “Cheerleader” as a workout buddy. Somebody who builds you up, has faith in you, motivates you and cheers you on through the entire training session. This workout buddy will never give up on you and always tell you “You can do it” until you start believing in yourself.
But maybe you don’t lack self-confidence and simply are too lazy to get up and do it? You never run out of excuses as to why today is just not a good day to work out. And on those few occasions when you do hit the gym, you end up buying Fast Food on the way home and throw everything you had just worked for out the window. Sounds like self-sabotage to me.
In that case you might need some tough love and the “Drill Sergeant” is the one to give it to you. This type of workout buddy will get in your face and simple make you do it. Excuses don’t work here, so you might as well just suck it up and get with the game, because your partner will show no mercy and push you beyond your limits.
How does it make you feel, when somebody can run faster than you, lift more weights than you, do more reps than you? Are you satisfied with always being the runner-up but never the winner? Never the best? Does it aggravate you or motivate to train harder, push yourself more? Does it bring out the beast inside of you? The competitive beast, that is.
If competition is what keeps you going, you could either join a competitive sport or find yourself a workout partner that is better than you. Not too much, or you might get discouraged. Just enough to inspire you and make you run that extra mile, do another set at the gym, or add a little more weight. What you are looking for is the “Gold-Medalist”. With that type of workout buddy, motivating yourself is easy, because you will always try to become better, until you can finally beat your partner one day, and take the gold for yourself.
