Sometimes is can be quite difficult to motivate yourself to exercise as much or as often as you should. You may find yourself facing a list of more than 100 excuses that you have come up with for yourself.
You are not the only one who faces this situation. One of the things that may help you overcome this list of excuses is creating a list of 100 benefits that you receive from exercising as well.
There are an amazing number of benefits that you can receive from exercising. For example, through it you can become stronger, faster, leaner, and more in shape.
You can also develop greater flexibility, sense of balance, and so forth. You will experience a heightened level of self-confidence and self-esteem.
As a result, you will take more of the opportunities given to you and you will experience more success. There are hundreds of other benefits that you can realize from exercising if you choose.
Another thing that may help you overcome your list of excuses is evaluating them to see which ones you should legitimately not exercise for and which ones you should. One of the reasons on your list of why not to exercise is that you have had a very long week and you are simply too tired to go exercise.
If this is your excuse, you should go and exercise anyway. Once you have been doing it for ten to fifteen minutes you will feel incredibly better and you will feel much more energized.
As a result, you will be able to go home and get things done instead of simply going to sleep. Exercise is the cure for a long week.
Another reason you may not want to exercise is because you have been sick or injured recently. You do want to make sure that you are fully recovered from either of these things before you exercise again.
If you start putting stress on your body too quickly, you may make yourself ill again or you could make the injury worse again. You can take some time to make sure that you are feeling better before you try to return to exercising.
It will take you some time, such as two to three weeks, to lose the fitness you have achieved. However, once you are sure you are better, you should return to exercising immediately.
When you do return, take it easy and ease into your normal exercise routine. You do not want to overdo it on accident.
Start with something slow and easy, such as walking, and then build up to a more intense cardio rate. The general rule for returning to exercise is that you have been gone for a week, you should perform at 80 to 90 percent of your original intensity.
If you have been gone longer than a week, you will want to perform at 50 or 60 percent of your original intensity. As you work out you should increase your intensity by 10 percent every week.
Ten percent is the minimum by which you can increase your intensity and it is given as the 'safe' suggestion. However, if you are doing well, you may be able to increase your intensity much faster.
There are many different factors that you should consider when you are thinking of increasing your intensity. These factors include things such as how long you did not exercise, your age, your reason for not exercising, and how in shape you were before you stopped exercising.
The more in shape you were and the shorter the break, the quicker you will be able to return to a normal workout routine. Your doctor should also be able to give you recommendations on exercises to do if you have been sick for a long period of time.
If you start experiencing chest pain, shortness of breath, or dizziness you should stop exercising immediately. Do not push yourself over the line where exercising is too much.
Many of the other reasons that you may not exercise may simply have to do with lack of time. For example, you may not have enough time to drive to the gym and exercise.
These kinds of excuses can all be overcome by investing in a home exercise machine, such as a treadmill. A home treadmill will allow you to work out from the privacy of your home at your convenience.
In addition, if you have children the treadmill will allow you to work out while you watch them instead of paying a babysitter. As you overcome your excuses not to exercise, you may find it much easier to exercise.
Author Resource:-
Tommy Greene is a personal trainer and has authored hundreds of articles relating to physical training and treadmill. He has been a health expert and physical trainer for over 15 years.
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