Body, exercise and diet

To be out of shape has not only opposite aesthetical effects, but it creates imbalances in physical and mental energy. Healthy and fit people have the energy, the strength and the mental attitude to focus on the important areas of their life.

It’s better to start certain activities under the control of your physician, but other activities such as walking or swimming, which are two of the best aerobic activities, don’t have to be approved by a physician – you need only to be motivated to move.

We know that it’s difficult to start exercising to correct old habits, but you don’t have choice, unless you want to feel older and not live life at its maximum.

Don’t worry. I’m not suggesting you start exercising to prepare yourself to participate to a marathon. However, we all have to exercise to become more aerobic, more flexible, and stronger, because then we will feel better, and we will look better.

The advantages of exercise are many.
Improves vigour, flexibility, strength, energy. After a half hour fast walk, the tension of the day is gone. You will wonder why you were worried before.
You will develop strength. All men and women must be strong. Especially women, have to be strong physically as much as they already are mentally.
Exercise banishes the blues. Yes, a good daily sweat changes your mood, and gives you a charge that it’s equal to good sex.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT PROGRAM FOR YOU

Some people, especially women, prefer to exercise at home, alone, with the help of a videotape. They like their intimacy and the fact they can build strength at their own pace. The only problem is that, when we exercise alone, we do not make pressure on ourselves enough or we don’t develop well as when we are under the supervision of a trainer or we exercise with other people, women and men who have similar goals.

To become members of a gym can be intimidating. If you are a woman, all women seem younger and thinner than you. If you are a man, all men seem more muscled and more endowed than you. And, at the beginning, you can feel you don’t belong because the groups are formed.

If this is your first experience, don’t give up. First, look for the gym right for you. Then, if you go regularly – at least 3-4 times a week at the same hours – you’ll feel soon part of the group, and, when you’ll make some friends, you will realize that everybody has the same insecurities about their bodies like you do, it does not matter how much fit they seem.
A good exercise program has to be right for you and you have to like it if you do it regularly. You should not let a week go without having done at lest 6 or 7 activities for 20 minutes.

To walk more and faster is the best way to start, while considering other more interesting ways to exercise.

To start you have to try several things. Discover what’s right for you and do it regularly.

Diet and exercise are strictly connected, to catch the advantages of both. One doesn’t work without the other. I’ve seen many persons in my gym exercise frantically, consuming just with aerobic exercise one thousand calories a day, and continually remain the same weight or, worse, losing some fat and regaining it immediately, and never being capable of reaching the hoped for fitness, because their diet was wild.

Take care of your body, protect it, give it the right food, exercise it and find the time to relax, to achieve a beautiful confident image.

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