- Faithful Fitness: God, Weight Loss, and Exercise
- Garlic Sweet Potato Mash
- Why My eBook Hasn’t Been Popular
- One Weird Thing that Helps Me Enjoy Exercise More
- How Does Guilt Fit into Weirdly Faithful Fitness?
- Are there Good Foods and Bad Foods?
- The Freedom of Constraint
- Call Me Weird, But…I LOVE the Paleo Lifestyle!
- Do This When You Feel Ridiculously Underqualified
- Laughter is the best…Fitness?
- Motivations for The Coming Week
- Ask the Experts for Fitness Advice: YOU!
- I Am a Person Who
- How my Son’s Life-Threatening Condition Gave Me Freedom
- Do You Need Exercise Accountability?
- How Losing the Guilt Breaks the Cycle
- My Family Hates Exercise
- Grace for the Now
- How Workouts Can Lead to Fat Gain
- Your Expert Advice: Fitness
- Don’t Forget de’ FEET!
- Four Steps to Tell Your Support Peeps What You Need
- A Day in the Life of Maintaining a 100 lb Weight Loss
- Three Girls and a Dog
- The Red Zone: How to Enjoy the Holidays and Stay Fit
- How to Avoid Burn Out and Find Fitness Success
Last week I asked for your best fitness advice in this post: Ask the Experts: You!, and what fantastic advice you all gave!
Here is some of the advice which was shared:
Q. How do you get re-started after a slump?
* Start Where You Are!
* Use What You Have!
* Do What You Can!
If we polled across all ages and athletic abilities my guess is that we would find that most of us would have the desire to be more active.
It can seem very overwhelming and almost impossible to re-start after a slump!
* It’s Cold Out…
* I’m Out of Shape…
* I don’t have a training buddy…
The list can go on.
In the time it takes to think of a reason why NOT to start, we could have put on our shoes and headed out of the door!
The Magic Solution is to M O V E !!!
Tiny movement can produce amazing results!
The Highest Mountains have been climbed one step at a time!!!
Start small. Whether you are an avid athlete or just beginning to explore your fitness opportunities, you can re-start after your slump by locating your “Exercise Shoes”, finding your “Fitness Jacket” and getting yourself outside under the sun.
(If you don’t have a training jacket and shoes, no problem, “Use What You Have!”)
Just find a way to head out! Walk around your neighborhood!
Make it a goal to notice your surroundings… to listen to your foot strike and deliberately breathe deeply.
The movement IS the “Medicine”!
Starting makes it easier to get to the gym the next time!
Getting to the gym might lead to meeting a work out buddy!
Meeting a workout buddy might lead to more frequent workouts!
And so on…
…and so on…
…and so on!!!
What NOT to do: Do NOT wait until you:
* Lose Weight
* Get in Shape
* Buy Special Equipment
Start NOW! Today! You may meet someone that you “Touch, Move or Inspire!”
You never know what goodness waits!
So head out into the world, be open to possibility and trust that you are one step closer to reaching your fitness goals and dreams!
~Carla L. Thompson, EnduranceGIRL and Multi-sport Enthusiast!
I like DVDs I can do at home as soon as I get out of bed. That means 5am on weekdays and around 7:30am on Saturdays. I take Sundays off. I’ve had gym memberships and tried afternoon or evening workouts in the past and those have failed miserably for me. Honestly, I’m kind of lazy. I don’t want to have to leave my house and drive anywhere to work out and I know as soon as I get off work I am doing nothing else besides making dinner and cleaning up the kitchen. I will never run because first of all, I hate running with a passion, if you see me running you better run too because that means the stabber man is coming. Secondly, I have chronic foot issues that are exacerbated by running and walking. I have done quite a few different DVD programs to keep things fresh, Tae Bo, Turbo Jam, and PiYo are the most recent. I had Hip Hop Abs but Shaun T annoyed me too much, lol. When my stamina increases again or boredom starts to set in I have my sights set on Turbo Fire because it is more intense and I LOVE Chalene Johnson. So I guess my “secret” is find something you will actually do at a time you will actually do it. Switch it up to keep it fresh and DON’T accept excuses from yourself. My fitness date with myself is non-negotiable and the most important thing on my calendar. I have missed 2 workouts in 13 weeks, one because I couldn’t breathe (chest congestion) and one because I was out of town and didn’t wake up in time to go to the workout room, but I did, however, walk quite a bit that day sightseeing. Thought process is also very important. Working out is not a chore to just get through, it is a date with the me I want to be. —Lisa Jones England
Which advice is most helpful to you? What other fitness and exercise advice do you have to share?
- Faithful Fitness: God, Weight Loss, and Exercise
- Why My eBook Hasn’t Been Popular
- One Weird Thing that Helps Me Enjoy Exercise More
- How Does Guilt Fit into Weirdly Faithful Fitness?
- Are there Good Foods and Bad Foods?
- The Freedom of Constraint
- Call Me Weird, But…I LOVE the Paleo Lifestyle!
- Do This When You Feel Ridiculously Underqualified
- Laughter is the best…Fitness?
- Motivations for The Coming Week
- Ask the Experts for Fitness Advice: YOU!
- I Am a Person Who
- How my Son’s Life-Threatening Condition Gave Me Freedom
- Do You Need Exercise Accountability?
- How Losing the Guilt Breaks the Cycle
- My Family Hates Exercise
- Garlic Sweet Potato Mash
- Grace for the Now
- How Workouts Can Lead to Fat Gain
- Your Expert Advice: Fitness
- Don’t Forget de’ FEET!
- Four Steps to Tell Your Support Peeps What You Need
- A Day in the Life of Maintaining a 100 lb Weight Loss
- Three Girls and a Dog
- The Red Zone: How to Enjoy the Holidays and Stay Fit
- How to Avoid Burn Out and Find Fitness Success
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