Are You Sabotaging Your Plan to Exercise?

re: Are You Sabotaging Your Plan to Exercise?

curious7 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:09:51 GMT

My biggest challenge is to stay on task. My goal is to do cardio, and weight training 3X a week, and to walk 2X a week. But I find myself falling on my face, but I do continue to try, because I want this to become a habit. This article is somewhat inspiring because it reminds me that my good health is at stake if I do not exercise on a regular basis. Also I am reminded I want to stay away from the torture chamber called a hospital, and only I am responsible.

A good diet, rest at the proper time, clean water, sunshine, exercise, and most important of all a good spiritual posture. These are the elements that keep healthy.

So to those who find themselves in the same pickle as myself, keep trying, keep chasing that goal, and do not give up.

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JJ72 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:01:56 GMT

Good article. Another tip that I expected to read: Find something you LIKE to do. Some people seem to really love exercising in general, it's their "thing". But for the rest of us, we need to find something we would enjoy even if it weren't actually exercise! I horseback ride (less than I'd like), and the riding I do is definitely exercise. We have also been doing Taekwondo several times a week, which is great. I get bored with exercise videos and find excuses not to do them... But this has scheduled classes, and we do it with our kids, so we don't skip. I enjoy it because I'm thinking about what I'm learning (which really interests me, as it turns out). I'm not just thinking "yeah, I'm exercising, can't wait until I'm done, ugh..." LOL! Also, martial arts are great because they use your whole body in varied ways, and it requires no special equipment, and can be done year-round indoors individually. And it doesn't require you to be athletically gifted (run fast, have good aim, or whatever, like many sports).

Experiment to find exercise you LOVE and you won't want to miss it! Just my 2 cents.

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Heather Marsh — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:01:30 GMT

on the note of the home walking machines - if it is in the TV room, see how you go during a movie with chase scenes. It is amazing the difference it can make. But be careful at first- unless you are a little fit at first you could inadvertantly overdo it!

I have found that Callanetics can help hugely to strengthen the back. My problem is two fold. A neurological deficit that results in fatigue out of all proportion to exertion, and a diminished lung capacity due to many years of smoking.

Next week I start taking lecithin in fruit juice twice daily to bump up my acetycholine levels (acetycholine and nicotine use the same receptors) and hopefully I will break the nicotine addiction a little easier than the last attempt.

Weight loss would be nice but is largely irrelevant to me.....but I would like to be healthier AND live long enough to see my grandchildren born.

Congratulations to all those already experiencing positive changes.

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David539 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:00:14 GMT

This article is very true about starting out slow. I was one of those ill people who started out slow, now I am going to do a 5K this winter. How awesome is that?

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Dr Rik — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:26:22 GMT

Many community colleges have exercise classes and massive schedules available to the entire community, cheap, supervised exercise with great facilities and lot's of people to meet. Get on it!

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drace1 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:23:07 GMT

My fear has always been that I will over-do-it and end up with sore muscles; so I just put off exercising. Since discovering Ribose I now find that I no-longer have an excuse. I might take 5g before exercise or just after. In either case I am able to work out to the max without fear of muscle pain the next day. If the work out was intense, I will take another 5g of Ribose before going to bed or the next morning if I feel a little sore. This works great for me.

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patrick york — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:49:23 GMT

i suggest practicing martial arts standing in horseback stance with the kaizen approach

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dee beatty — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:18:01 GMT

Bought two Russian Kettlebells and goddess video, then got really busy. Will be back to it in a few days, but am having trouble designing a program of interval intensity. Can't get a personal trainer. Want to do it badly! Any advice?

I have a treadmill which I like, and it's so easy to get going on it, but want to get fit again.

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Les Rogers — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:31:14 GMT

Both running and jogging are very hard on the body, so hard that most people end up quitting due to injuries. Walking, on the other hand, is low impact and "can" be quite sufficient as the basis of an aerobic program. How? By adding handweights - dumbbells - and involving as many upper body, torso, back and buttock muscles in the goal to achieve target heart rate. (By the way, a heart rate monitor is absolutely vital convenience-wise.) Some of you may recognize this concept. It's called "Heavyhands" and was popular in the eighties but gradually got passed over because most people never actually read the book and thus were knowledge-challenged and rendered incapable of tapping into its full potential.

By the way, there is sufficient array of exercises in Heavyhands that one can do a workout in one's own living room. But on that note, I'll mention that there was a Heavyhands DVD put out by some aerobics teacher, but I found it pretty disappointing and it falls far short of a proper education in the Heavyhands concepts. Read the book.

Of course, one should "ease into" an exercise regimen - as the author of Heavyhands clearly advises - but one of the fabulous advantages of Heavyhands is that one can adjust the intensity of the workout in so many ways. And, the funny thing is, when one incorporates the upper torso and other musculature into an aerobic exercise, it actually FEELS a lot easier to achieve target heart rate than just trying to get there by legs alone. And of course, the toning benefits are more widely spread throughout the body this way.

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fingurl — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:14:04 GMT

Simply put: mind over matter. Do you mind not feeling healthy? Do you mind feeling sluggish? Well, put the computer to sleep and start moving the matter! My health to me is the most important aspect of my life. So nighty night, don't let the gigabytes bite!

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Phantom O Banjo — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:07:51 GMT

It seems like my back sabotaged my exercise program, when I pulled back muscle Friday lifting weights. lol

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mama bear — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:27:41 GMT

Great advice. Start moving and keep moving.

Mamabear