Some of us have had a “bad” experience with exercise.
Many of us have had people telling us what we should do and have
built up a resistance to the very idea of “exercise”!
Exercise need not be a struggle. If you make it fun by choosing
an activity you enjoy, you will more easily incorporate it into
your daily life and more rapidly enjoy the enormous physiological,
psychological and biochemical benefits of exercise.
To avoid boredom, you may wish to vary your daily routine. For
example, walk one day, cycle the next and perhaps swim another day.
If walking is the core of your routine, you can supplement it with
recreational activities such as golf or tennis.
The point is to do something, exercise every day.
- Move – Just do something
- Move more often – aim to do something,
no matter how small, everyday
- Move quicker – aim to do it a little
faster each time
- Move differently – choose different
activities, or do it a different way, chose a different location…
Goal setting
- Be Realistic – something you can do for the rest of your
life
- Make it achievable – what you can achieve now, promote
constant achievement, do not set yourself up for failure
- Be practical – What can you find the time to do, what
is going to fit into your lifestyle
- Make it interesting and enjoyable so that you can stick to it
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