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Exercise - It's a fact of life

Do you keep waiting for the moment, day, week, month, or year for exercise to seem desirable?  As soon as that time arrives, you rationalize, when you want to exercise, you'll establish and then maintain the habit of working out on a regular basis?  Our tip today is for those of you who keep waiting.  You don't debate about whether to brush your teeth at night, or about buying and maintaining car insurance, or whether you should pay the household bills on a regular basis.  You handle all kinds of 'undesirable' tasks on an ongoing basis, as needed, without a whole lot of thought.  Why is exercise any different?

 

Our tip today is to quit waiting for the magic moment to arrive when exercise sounds like a joyful, exciting, just-what-I-wanted to do activity.  As adults, we all have plenty of unexciting, somewhat mundane activities we have to handle on an ongoing basis.  We suggest, add exercise to the list.  Make a goal to exercise most days of the week, and then stick to it.  Don't ever go more than three days in a row without exercising.  Schedule exercise like you would you bill paying and that way, exercise becomes part of your routine, not a choice.     

 

We can't promise that treating exercise as a fact of life will make you love it, but we are pretty sure that you'll feel good about yourself, and have a sense of accomplishment, whenever you finish even a short 20 minute walk.  And who knows, you may find that you have days where you look forward to your time in the gym, or where you find that you've had a joyful time getting a bit of exercise.

 

Jill Turner is the director of operations of Cooper Concepts, Inc., a division of The Cooper Aerobics Center.

 

 

Sharron

Sharron Grzybowski

Lifestyle Makeover Specialist

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