Exercise: (physical activity) to subject a person’s or animal’s body, or part of it, to repetitive physical activity, exertion or energetic movement, when the intention is to strengthen it or improve its condition, and to keep it fit and healthy.

How Often do You Exercise?

I’m not talking about the passive exercise we get by rolling off the couch, dragging to the refrigerator and lifting yet another soft drink and cold pizza. “I walked down to the corner store, so I’m good to go for today . . .” Nah, that don’t count either. Most likely, that walk was more of a saunter and less of a calorie burner.

What I’m asking is how often do you subject yourself  to “repetitive physical activity, exertion or energetic movement with the intention of strengthening, improving your conditioning and keeping fit and healthy?” The meaning of exercise.

Most of us know that exercising our body is a necessity. Thing is, exercise is easy to do, but it’s easy not to do, as well.

How many times have we said to ourselves and anyone who would listen, “Starting next Monday . . . I’m gonna get at it! Yeah baby, I’m bout to do the thing!” And the day we make that bold projection, is on Tuesday. Gives us almost a week of preparation, plenty of time to forget our goal.

Because you know, Monday will creep in and slither away, and the only exercise we get is watching time slip away. Tick, tock.

If only the machine could exercise for us.

We do everything we can think of to keep our minds off of the fact that it is Monday. We do things that are of utmost importance, gotta be done now! Can’t wait.

Gotta make that bed, move that flower pot, sweep the hallway, kick the dog . . . just kidding about the dog. (No animals were hurt or injured during the assembly of this article)

Then before we know it, we rationalize that

• it’s too late to work-out now

• we’d be too noisy

• we’d disturb others, or my favorite

• “Oops, look at the time, I’d better hold off till tomorrow.” Which as we all know, tomorrow never comes.

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One Step at a Time, in Time, will do the trick.

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but most of us will take the escalator.

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How about the people around you?

Do you know it is a proven fact that you are a mirror, of the company you keep. Chances are, if the people you roll with don’t exercise regularly, neither do you.

When we decide to change the way we look, we have to change the people we look at, at least for an hour or so at a time.

A regular exercise routine should be designed to exercise our entire body. It should include the basics of BASS. Breathing, Aerobics, Strength training, and Stretching.

For a quick breathing exercise check out the technique on our home page.

Frequent, BASS scheduled exercises, along with diet, rest and reduced stress is a meaningful piece of the formula for a healthy, fulfilling life-style.

See your health practitioner for clearance prior to exerting yourself, but set yourself up on at least a quick thirty minute, four day work-out routine. You’ll be glad you did.

Don’t want to be bothered with all that? Go for a long walk three times a week to start. You will be amazed at how soon your body will thank you and ask for more.

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CK Dillon

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