Exercise

Exercise
Exercise is a key factor for anybody who wants to lose
weight. Exercise will substantially decrease the time for
you to reach your weight loss goals. However it doesn't
just stop there, exercising will enhance your life in many
positive ways. A lot of people have a dread about
exercising because it can be difficult at the start,
especially if you are not used to it. The key point to
remember is that it is only by doing the difficult things
in life, do we reap the greater rewards.

Weight loss is just one positive side effect you receive
from exercising, exercise will also:

Give you more energy. Make you fitter and stronger.
Increase your ability for utilizing more oxygen. Make you
more confident and increase your self esteem. Release
endorphins in your brain which makes you feel happier.
Increase your lifespan Allow you to be a role model for
people around you. Strengthen your heart. Decrease the
risks of major illnesses. Strengthen your immune system.
Boost your metabolism so it works more efficiently. Improve
your posture. Make you look and feel more attractive.
Improve your self image. Improve your ability to cope with
stress. Help you to look and feel younger. Compensate for
the natural muscle loss that occurs with age.

With all these additional benefits it would seem crazy to
avoid exercise, but so many people do, and do not realise
the major benefits that they are missing out on. Of course
exercise will be hard in the beginning and this will be
true for most people. What makes it hard is that your
muscles need to get used to being used in ways that they
are not accustomed to. This is what causes the aches and
soreness the day after an exercise session. At first glance
this may seem a bad thing but in reality it is a good thing
because you are waking up muscles that may have been asleep
for a long time.

Of course your muscles are going to complain when you first
start using them, this is because they are being taken out
of their comfort zone. The good news is that your muscles
learn to adapt pretty quickly to the stress that exercise
will place on them. They do this by becoming stronger and
by increasing their endurance capabilities. When you first
start out, just do enough exercise so that you are pushing
yourself just a little beyond what you think are your
limits. For the first few days you might feel a little
sore, but if you continue doing the same amount of
exercise, the soreness will stop after a week or so. It
stops because your muscles have adapted and when this
happens it is time to do a bit more exercise. Your muscles
will keep on adapting by becoming fitter and stronger, and
you just keep repeating the process.

The hardest part of exercising is the first few weeks. The
reason it's hard is because you are trying to introduce new
behaviours into your life, and your body is not a big fan
of change. Your body likes smooth sailing and doesn't take
kindly to change. The good news is that if you do something
often enough your body will not have any choice but to
change. Always remember that in the beginning; never overdo
it because doing more than you can cope with is going to
result in you giving up. Just do enough so that it is going
to test you a little. After a few weeks things will become
easier, and then you can increase in slightly larger steps
because your body will have come to terms with what you are
doing.

Never ever compare yourself with others when it comes to
exercise. You will be exercising in way that is going to be
challenging for you, it doesn't matter what anyone else can
do. Regardless of how much exercise you start with, always
keep in mind that if you continue, the improvements will
come, it cannot be any other way. Another thing to remember
is that whatever you are doing today is more than what you
were doing a few weeks ago, so you are already improving.

One final tip is that you should try not to think of
exercise. If you spend too much time thinking about it, it
will start to play on your mind during the day. It will get
to the point where you may start dreading exercising when
you finish work, and you would have talked yourself out of
doing it when the time comes. Try to avoid thinking about
it and just do it when the time comes. Most people spend
more time thinking about exercise than spending time
actually doing any, which really makes no sense at all.

There are countless methods of exercise, spend some time
figuring out what you are going to do. Read the benefits on
this page on a daily basis to help you keep motivated, and
be frightened of the potential risks you may place on
yourself if you don't exercise.

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