Benefits of Exercise There are plenty of benefits to exercising. Here is a partial list. Most of these apply to aerobic exercise. Print this out and post it in a prominent place to help keep you motivated. Knowing why isn’t … Continue reading →
The Best Time to Exercise
What is the best time to exercise?
Not trying to be flippant but the very best time to exercise is the time that you will actually do it.
No matter what any “expert” says is the “best” time to exercise, it does you no good, if that is not a time that will work for you with your schedule or with your established habits or with the times the local fitness club is open or with the times for your local weather to cooperate.
Continue reading →An improvement goal in general is getting better, doing more, working harder, developing new skills, learning something new. Some examples of improvement goals are to walk one more minute, do 5 more crunches than the day before, learning a new stroke in your favorite sport or trying out a new piece of exercise equipment.
Improvement goals are not as rigid and general as making a goal to exercise three times a week for 60 minutes each time or setting a short time frame to say, run a marathon. Unless you are already in the habit of exercising very closely to those goals, then you are setting yourself up for failure.
Continue reading →Either you can’t seem to fit in the recommended 30-60 minute aerobic exercise all at one time or you are finding time for that but you are also making excuses later on, because you “already exercised today”. Either way, you can benefit from sneaking in more exercise into your day. Think movement and stretching. Also think, “every little bit counts”, because it’s true!
Continue reading →Could you use a stronger “why” for exercising? If so, you are not alone. It seems that a lot of people are in need of more motivation to exercise.
Continue reading →Choose one exercise habit to start with. Don’t try to change five different things at once regarding your new fitness routine. Pick only one thing to change at first. Plan ahead. Do the thinking and research needed to plan for … Continue reading →
Can you call something a “habit” if, when your routine is disrupted, the “habit” gets neglected?
I don’t think so. Habits aren’t habits unless they have become almost automatic. If something as small as a routine change stops a habit then it wasn’t a habit at all.
That’s bad news for me. I’ve been trying to instill the habit of more and better exercising into my life since January and a recent trip out of town totally broke down my “habit” into almost nothing. I mean, even after getting back home I’ve been really struggling to get even close to what I was doing before I went on this little trip.
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