Do you love to exercise? Are you motivated to exercise? Or do you dread exercise and think of it as something you should do? Do you think that if you exercise you can eat anything you want? Guess again. Here are three hidden truths about exercise that you need to know.
The truths about exercise:
It turns our that your past relationship with exercise has everything to do with what motivates you to exercise now.
Michelle Segar has made a study of the science of motivation with exercise. Her simple advice makes sense. "Take any and every opportunity to move, in any way possible, at what ever speed you like, for any amount of time. Do what makes you feel good; stop doing what makes you feel bad."
No amount of exercise will allow you to eat junk food, high processed foods, and sugar filled drinks. So give up on the idea that exercise will allow you to eat anything you want.
When you think of exercise as a chore or something you must accomplish, it becomes easy to avoid or to give it a low priority. What motivates people, is to choose things we like to do, that make us feel good.
Exercise is just the way you keep your body in shape, so that you can enjoy all of the things you want to do in life. You only get one body. You cannot trade it in like a used car.
Exercise is not running on a treadmill until you are miserable. Exercise is any activity that elevates your heart rate and gets you moving. If you don’t like exercise, find an activity that you do like. Here are some ideas:
The truth about exercise ... be creative and have fun moving.
