Exercise Aha!

I just had one of those Aha! moments. I was reading a blog about exercise. About how hard it is to start and continue an exercise program and ways to trick yourself into doing so. Suddenly, I connected with what I’ve been learning about diets.

They don’t work. If you start a diet you will also end a diet. What you need to do is change your eating habits. Changing them bit by bit is easier than trying to do it all at once.

So, wouldn’t this be true of an exercise program? If you start one you will also end one. What you need to do is change your habits.

For me, the first change, I think, needs to be how I think about exercise. What is it? Is it not true that every time I move a muscle I am exercising it? So, isn’t exercise really just moving?  

Does it matter why I am moving? Isn’t geocaching as good as a treadmill? Isn’t hand washing the RV a good arm movement? If I bend over at the waist to pick up things from the floor, isn’t that as good as doing toe touches?

Apparently, what I need to do is think about my movements and what muscles I use to do them then increase the frequency and effectiveness of that movement.

So what muscles do I use sitting here at my computer?

TTYL,

Linda