Exercise, fitness, training, lifting, cardio………..These are some ideas that have the tendency to scare a lot of people and escape the routine of daily life. I think there are a few reasons people try and try, but continuously fail at beginning a healthy lifestyle. I will give you the best advice on starting the healthy life that will help as you work toward reaching your goals, and gaining steady strength!
Ignorance is a big one. This may sound like a demeaning word, but I can assure you I don’t mean it in that context. Everyone is ignorant about something. I have a passion for health and fitness but I can assure you I am very ignorant about building space ships. It’s not a bad thing. It just means I don’t know much about it. If you are ignorant about working out and getting your body healthy, chances are you will be more hesitant to try it. This is the reason for this article, so you can inform yourself!!!
Motivation can be the tipping point between chasing a healthy way of living, and staying the same. Being healthy is not always easy. As a matter of fact a lot of the time that’s far from the case. In order to make this a lifestyle you have to find a personal motivation to start, and then keep it going. Some motivators can be: looking good at the beach; looking good for your significant other; getting stronger for a sport; overall improvement of health and wellbeing; etc. Find a motivation to workout and then concentrate on it. That will be your best friend when the going gets tough. When you figure out what will motivate you then set a short term goal. Make an agreement with yourself that you will reach that small goal within the next few weeks.
Lifestyle is the ultimate reason we lack exercise and health. Lifestyle is the hardest thing to change. If you are reading this you may be looking to make a huge change in your life or just a little tweak here and there in order to reach the goal that you set. The secret to changing the habit of lifestyle is doing it slowly and practically. I have seen people who are living the complete opposite of a healthy life, make the decision to change. They throw themselves into the fire by trying to change everything overnight. The reality is, that’s impossible. You are asking to get burnt out and frustrated, which will end up causing you to quit. That may sound very familiar to a lot of you. When you get excited about making a change in your life it’s hard to not want to change everything at once. The fact is you have to take baby steps. When we were born we first crawled, then wobbled, then walked, and now some of us can run and maybe even do backflips. The secret to filling your daily life with exercise and healthy choices is taking small steps. Don’t go running to the gym and start trying to throw dumb bells around and lifting a whole stack of weights. Don’t try to run a marathon on your first day. Your body will be in shock when you change something. Some signs of this are soreness, tiredness at the end of the day, etc. That is why you have to ease into it in order to acclimate your body to the change and reduce the amount of shock.
The first thing that you need to know about working out is that there are two different types of training your body. There is resistance training and cardio training. One exercises your skeletal muscles and the other exercises your heart muscle. Both are crucial in order to achieve your physical goal and get healthy. I’ll tell you why they are important next. Go check out What Everyone Should Know About Resistance Training and The Secret To Successful Cardio Training. Leave a comment to tell us about how you are keeping yourself educated and motivated to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
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