Exercise Facts
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Exercise boosts mental clarity.
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Exercise relieves stress.
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Exercise helps prevent disease.
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Depressed people can alleviate their symptoms by
up to 48% with regular aerobic exercise.
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Exercise promotes weight loss and increases
personal confidences associated with body image.
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Exercise promotes better sleep.
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Exercise has a positive impact on your sex life.
Getting Started…
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Unless you are a competing athlete, try not to
get bogged down in the ideal fitness regime. For general-purpose health and
wellness, you don’t need to be an exercise scientist. Just aim for consistent
effort toward flexibility, muscle strength, and cardiovascular endurance.
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Identify a few FUN physical activities that you
like to do (sports, biking, skating, swimming). Make sure you identify a
primary and alternate activity at minimum. However, it is good to be prepared
to for an array of physical activities that you enjoy.
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Make sure you have all of the resources to do
these activities (clothes, watch, weights, shoes, MUSIC, racquet, skates,
etc…). If you do not have what you need readily available, you literally cannot
do the activity. That first morning at 5AM is not the time to be collecting
resources. Do not let this be your barrier. Also, it is especially important
that your wardrobe supports your active lifestyle. If you only have two pair of
athletic shorts, you will often find yourself using laundry as an excuse not to
exercise.
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Set aside a block of time to complete the
activity.
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Prioritize proper form and safety in whatever
activity you choose.
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SHOW UP at the allotted time, with the right
gear. Spend your best efforts on this bullet. Rarely does a person sitting on a
bicycle seat, with bicycle shorts and helmet, decide against going for a ride
that day. You don’t have to spend your mental energy going over the sequence of
your exercise routine. Just amp your mind up to show up.
WebMD, The Daily Beast, The Mayo Clinic, The New York Times
- Strength of GIF
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