Physical Fitness

The #1 Obstacle to fitness is TIME. When you are working on projects that are highly time sensitive, when your family needs your time, when all of your life is pulling on you for time ... it is so easy to forget to take care of yourself first. However, you must make time for your basic wellness. Only when you are at your best can you give your best to all.

This is another place where the solution is in the system. Design your day with your fitness built right in. Have your fitness on automatic pilot within your day. This can be accomplished many ways. Some people participate in some exercise first thing in the morning before their day gets rolling. Quite frankly, this is statistically the most successful timing for your workout. For others, attending a class or going to the gym, or taking your walk as a mid-day break or as a way of decompressing from work is best. Another clever system is to build your workout into your day. I have one client who goes on a brisk fitness walk while making his daily business calls. Everyone is different. Discover through experimentation what is best for you.

The #2 obstacle to fitness is hopelessness. Sometimes it just feels like you could not get fit, so why try. You may feel that you are too large or too old to get fit. Wrong. No matter who you are, what age, or what size, every body needs and benefits from having fitness activities in every day. Period.

Too often in the current media and medical hype we are told that being lean is shorthand for being fit. This is wrong. Whether you are young or old, lean or fat, your fitness depends on your ACTIONS... and you have the ability to choose your actions.

This is good news. This means that each of us has the opportunity to be a fit person. Fitness knows no barriers of age or size. If you participate in fitness activities today, then you are as fit as you can be today. When you string together many days of fitness in a row, your fitness increases.