When it comes to exercise, we all know we should do it. We all know it’s meant to be important for our health and for our wellbeing. But I’m going to make an assumption here and say that a lot of people don’t actually understand what that means, or more so, don’t really care. It’s a case of not being able to see the benefits of what keeping fit and active actually do to our body – mentally, physically and emotionally – so it gets put in the box of ‘unimportant’ or ‘pointless’.
Even after nearly a decade as a personal trainer, it still blows me away to know and hear that many people actually do no exercise. From day to day, week to week or year to year, so many people literally sit on their backsides doing no form of regular exercise, activity or movement. If you are one of these people who have a very flimsy and erratic exercise regime, or further still an entirely non-existent one, are you quite happy to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars each year towards maintaining your health and medical insurance, do you seemingly always need to go to the doctor with aches, pains, a sniffle or a cold, yet again need another day off work due to ‘feeling poorly’, are you a person who just always seems to be tired and have no energy? Would you believe me if I told you that all that could be dramatically reduced, if not disappear, if you just got up and moved? For many, it seems they are happy to pay endless amounts of dollars towards fixing the problem that lack of exercise creates. My point here is by taking part in regular exercise, movement or activity, the list of benefits to your wellbeing is endless…the only downside? Is actually doing it! I debated in my head about my approach to how I wanted to write this – whether I wanted it to be politely encouraging or bluntly tactless. My personality wanted to opt for the polite option, but I also know that if I state these facts politely no one will change. So I’m taking the blunt approach and I’m not sorry to anyone I offend. To all you reading this who exercise 3, 4 or 5 times a week – well done and good on you for making your life and body a healthy place to live. Good on you for preventing illnesses and diseases, strengthening your immune system, improving the quality of your heart and cardiovascular system, achieving more in your day from having bountiful amounts of energy, and more importantly good on you for treating your body how it is MEANT to be treated. If you are reading this and are a person who does no or very irregular amounts of exercise, and even more, have a sedentary job and spend most of your time ‘sitting’, then get off your backsides and start caring about who you are, the body you live in, and the life you are leading. Stop feeling sorry for yourself when you get sick, when you are always ‘tired’, and stop spending all your money on doctors’ bills, pills, medication and supplements – these just fix the problem that your unhealthy, sedentary lifestyle is creating. Get up and start moving, take responsibility for your own health and wellbeing, use prevention rather than cures, and stop finding excuses! You catching a cold is not due to the sick kid who sneezed on you in the supermarket, it is due to your poor and weak immune system. You not having time to exercise is not due to a busy life, it’s due to poor management of time. You having aches and pains isn’t an excuse to not exercise – a sedentary life is likely what gave you the aches and pains. I can tell you now, any excuse you come up with for not exercising is nothing more than an excuse. It’s not a fact. Because everyone short of a paraplegic can find some form of movement, exercise or activity to do. And everyone can find time to do it. So next time you invent an excuse to get you out of exercising and keeping fit, realise it is your choice to choose that lifestyle, but don’t complain when it comes back to bite you in the backside. Don’t complain when you constantly have colds and flu’s, or when you get illnesses and diseases. Sedentary lifestyles are the leading cause of mortality. Heart diseases, cancers, strokes, heart attacks…they can all be significantly reduced if we just do some exercise. I hope I have made my point. That point being how just doing small amounts of regular exercise can improve, save and lengthen your life, and also make that life you live a much happier and easier one. If you are stuck for ways to bring exercise into your life, check out my website www.bodyessence.co.nz to see what options I offer to support you through becoming active, fit and healthy. Take care and get moving! Kerri van de Loo Health, Fitness and Nutrition Professional
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