Finding Time to Exercise
Exercising During Commercials
I’m getting up an hour earlier these days. At first I said I’d never be able to do it: I was already sleep deprived rising at 6 AM how would I ever get up at 5 AM? I’d never be able to get to sleep earlier (this is still true), and a hundred other reasons why it wouldn’t work. And then I tried it, and it does work. I’m still sleep deprived, but that extra hour in the morning is a Godsend. I love it.
How do you Present Ideas to Yourself?
So why did it take me so long to “just do it?” Probably the way I presented the idea to myself. Notice I used words such as “never” and “already” as in “I’m already sleep deprived.” I kept telling myself it wouldn’t work, that it was a bad idea and until the first time I actually tried it, I secretly believed when the alarm rang, I’d just turn it off and go back to sleep. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy getting up early. Mornings are my best time of day. I’m the most productive in the morning so it makes sense to give myself an extra hour.
I Don’t Have Time to Exercise
Sometimes a small adjustment in how you run your day can help enormously in freeing up some time for things like exercise. “I don’t have time.” I hear that a lot, but if asked, “What’s your favorite TV show?” most people can list a … ‘continued’ …
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7 Ways To Guarantee…
…You Stick To Your Workout Program
1. Begin Looking at Exercise Differently. Think of exercise as a way of life. Do not look as exercise as a chore or task that hurts you. Exercise is probably the most inexpensive and fun thing you can do for your life. Find something in exercise that you enjoy doing such as meeting new people, getting out of work, or your means of stress relief. It will be like brushing your teeth or eating breakfast. The sooner you view exercise as a activity of health and way of life, the sooner your results will show up.
2. Think Small. This is probably the hardest part of exercise for people to understand and follow through with. Most people want the results to happen now and start their workout program going all out. This is the number 1 reason men and women stop exercising. They expect too much. Breakdown your goals into sections or parts and choose some realistic goals. Before you know it, you lost
those annoying 10 pounds and or health has improved ten fold.
3. Get A Workout Partner. If there is somebody waiting for you at the gym, the same time you are supposed to be there, you can bet you will be there 100% of the time to workout with him or her. It also can be immediately physically result producing since you will automatically be pushing each other to do better and better.
4. Change Your Workout More Often. Change: The essence of goal attainment. … ‘continued’ …
New Lover Approach to Starting an Exercise Program
Approach a New Exercise Program Like a New Lover
How many times have you decided to get back to some type of exercise program? You’ve bought gear, new shoes, new clothes, whatever is needed. You’ve set aside some time, and off you go. A nice heart pounding workout or two and wham, you’re right back to the couch, watching TV and thinking about starting an exercise program. What went wrong?
Nine times out of 10 what happened was you simply tried to do too much too soon. It’s just like dating. If you met someone you liked and wanted them to like you too, what would happen if you started calling them multiple times every day, leaving clever messages on their answering machine, and buying them cute gifts and cards. How might they react to being smothered with affection. It’s an almost guaranteed way to drive that once interested suitor into performing a disappearing act.
If you start your exercise program by doing too much too soon you’ll soon tire of it entirely. It’s far better to start slowly and like with a new lover, better to play it just a little cool, giving them a little taste, rather than the whole banquet. It’s always wise to leave them wanting more. Amusement park rides last only a few minutes because studies found after a longer ride people said, “Wow, that was fun,” but after the shorter ride it was more often, “Wow, that was great, let’s go again!”
Six Little Minutes is all it … ‘continued’ …
The Importance of The Fibonacci Numbers…
…in Fitness Training
“Things do not change; we change.” -Henry David Thoreau
The following article is a chapter from my new book, The Da Vinci Fitness Code.
Professor Stanley Plagenhoef, one of my greatest mentors, introduced me to the Fibonacci number series in the early 1980’s.
He encouraged me to think of those numbers in the ideal relationship of health and fitness. I took his advice and bought books that spoke of the Fibonacci numbers, and the link between those numbers and The Golden Mean Ratio.
The first and best book I ever bought is titled, The Curves of Life, written by Theodore Andrea Cook, ISBN # 0-486-23701. The publisher is Dover Publications in New York.
Interestingly, this publication mentions on its title page, that the book includes special relation to “The Manuscripts of LEONARDO DA VINCI.” I learned many details from this insightful; brain penetrating book (and others I later read).
Some I will reword from memory. Leonardo said: “-you cannot be a good master, unless you have a universal power of representing by your art, all the varieties of the forms in Nature.
. . . . Do you not see how many and how varied are the actions performed by men alone – how many kinds of animals there are, of trees and plants and flowers – how many kinds of springs, rivers, buildings and cities, of instruments fitted for man’s use, of costumes, ornaments and arts?
All these things should be rendered with equal facility and brace by anyone deserving the name of a good … ‘continued’ …
