Are You Sabotaging Your Plan to Exercise?
p>You know exercise is good for you. But many of you do it for a couple of days, and then forget about it, because it’s just too hard. Wouldn’t you like to know a painless and easy way of getting into the exercise habit?
p>b>The reason people often fail when trying to implement a regular exercise routine is because they work against our instincts, instead of with them./b>
p>What you are trying to do when you establish an exercise routine is do reverse a trend. Imagine that you are a train driver driving at high speed. How are you going to change directions? Are you going to simply crash your gear into reverse? If you did, the train would derail, passengers would get hurt or killed, and you would end up with a catastrophe.
p>There is a better way.
p>You could gently apply the brakes until the train is at a standstill, and then slowly start reversing the direction.
p>Most people do the opposite when trying to start exercising. They try and run for a mile, or go to the gym for an hour, or play a game of tennis — and then wonder why they feel so stiff and sore next day.
p>How can you create change gently?
p>There is a very interesting Japanese philosophy called Kaizen which can help you do that. Kaizen focuses on continuous but small change. Let’s take a look at how this could be applied to physical exercise. Take running as an example. Could you run for 15 seconds? Most people can. With the philosophy of Kaizen, you could say that if can run for 15 seconds, you can learn to run for a minute, and even for an hour. How?
p>Follow this simple running plan. Add 15 seconds each day.
p>It will seem ridiculously easy! But do this for a about forty days, and you’ll be running for 10 minutes. A month later, and you’ll be running for 20 minutes. By that time your running habit will be well established. But it will have happened naturally!
p>b>You can apply the same principle to establishing any exercise./b> Whether it’s yoga, or swimming, or walking.
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