How Do I Get Started With A Exercise Program

Alright, you have made the commitment to change your life and take care of your health. So now you ask, how do you accomplish this without falling off the band-wagon?

Step 1: Make exercise part of your routine. If you exercise when there is time or when you are in the mood. It may or may not get done. Just like you get up for work around the same time, you can exercise at the same time. For example, if you say you’re going to the gym after work. Put together your gym bag the night before and then put it in the seat next to you. Then when you get off the first thing you see is your gym bag. It is too easily forgotten if it is in the back seat or the trunk.

Step 2: Start Slowly. Focus on what you can do not what you can't do. The Bible teaches that we are to do what we can and GOD will do the rest. (2 Corinthians 8:10-14)Once you become stronger you can add to your WORK OUT. If you have never exercised before, it might be doing sit ups, leg lifts, squats etc during television commercials or brushing your teeth.

Step 3: For the first month or so maintain a FOOD JOURNAL and WORK OUT journal. In order to know where you need to make improvements, you have to know what needs improving. It does not have to be every single morsel or every form of exercise that you do on a day to day basis. It does have to be a truthful representation of what you do in terms of eating and exercising. See an example of a WORK OUT AND FOOD JOURNAL provided in the blog. Write down your vision(Habakkuk 2:2).

Step 4: Realize that you were created to be you. Don't compare yourself to the next person. You don't know what they have done. They may tell you one thing and have done something else. Each one of us is unique and our temples react differently. One person may benefit from one form of exercise and other from a different form of exercise. Our temples use food and metabolism completely separate from other people.

Step 5: Stop believing every infomercial for all of these different products. If there was such a product that could keep all of the promises that they suggest, there would only be one! Who ever developed and marketed it would have more money than Warren Buffet and Bill Gates combined. Use your own common sense, if it sounds too good to be true it is.

Step 6: Stop making excuses. We are all perfectly capable of doing whatever it is that we want to do. We can find a way to do things that serve absolutely no benefit or are even detrimental to our well being. So why can't we do the opposite and do something that is beneficial and advantageous to our well being? It is your choice.

Step 7: Don't get in a rut doing the same thing over and over again. If you do the same thing over and over again you will get bored and it will be that much harder to continue. If you do the same exercise all the time without ever switching it up, your body will get used to it and you will plateau and your results will minimize. It is important to do new and different things.

Step 8: Have fun. Exercise can be fun. There is nothing that says exercise has to be boring. Involve the children and/or spouse if possible. It can also be a form of social interaction.