Start With Why

We can all come up with barriers to exercise , but these are often just perceptions rather than reality -

➡️ Can’t manage 5 workouts a week? Do 2 instead.

➡️ Can’t do 10k steps a day? Aim for 7k steps.

➡️ Can’t squeeze in a workout for an hour? Do 30 mins.

➡️ Can’t find or afford a gym? Exercise in your front or spare room, the garden or even the nearest park or public space.

When you shift your mindset away from what you can’t do, and start to think about what you can do, you open up a whole host of opportunities; swim, cycle, run, walk, use a skipping rope, a skateboard, a football, those old dumbbells under the bed…

And if you are thinking about starting an exercise programme, before you even lift a weight or sign up to that gym spend a few minutes thinking about your ‘Why?’.  It’s important to build an emotional connection with your reason why you want to start exercising, so that when life throws you that inevitable curve-ball (you overslept, can’t find your left running shoe, something’s come up at work, the kids are causing a riot and the dog’s thrown up in the kitchen….) your reason why compels you to stick to doing your workout…

Write it down! Then write down how you will feel after you do a workout, and how you will feel if you don’t…

Remember, prioritising yourself over everything else for 1 or 2 hours a week is not being unreasonable, and it will make you feel a whole lot better emotionally as well as physically when you do!