Exercise Plan

Exercise Plan

The basic steps to starting a new fitness and exercise plan. Remember - start slowly, visualize success, keep it simple, and learn to enjoy moving and using your body. Most people can see significant, visible results within just a few weeks of starting My Exercise Plan.

Start slowly - Do not make the mistake millions of new exercisers make: doing too much as soon. Too much of anything will make you sick of it fast. Eventually you'll learn to love exercising and eating healthy foods but, when you're first starting out, you need to "ease" into it. Don't try to become a fitness model in one week!

Get your mind right - At least twice a day, take 10 minutes to visualize what you want to accomplish. See yourself with the body you want, doing the fun things you want to do, enjoying the company of the people you want to be with. Visualization is an incredibly effective, proven technique for programming your brain to do what it needs to do to be successful.

Know what's ahead - Realize that there are several key steps to beginning a new fitness program. These are the mental stages most people progress through before being successful. They include: not wanting to exercise --> thinking about it --> getting ready for it --> starting it --> enjoying it and doing it almost daily. Prepare yourself for each stage and you'll be better able to deal with any problems or doubts that arise.

Keep it simple - It's very difficult to go from being undisciplined in terms of diet and exercise to following a highly detailed eating and Exercise Plan(like the kind you find in most fitness magazines). Not that these Exercise Plans won't work. It's just that, by keeping it simple when you start out, you'll be less likely to feel overwhelmed and quit after a couple of weeks.

Get moving - Start off with walking, slow jogging or cycling and some light weight workouts. If you belong to a gym you might want to try a beginner's exercise class. Just choose something you enjoy and don't do more than 20 or 30 minutes of exercise 3 or 4 times per week. After 2 or 3 weeks you can begin to gradually increase the intensity, duration, and frequency of your workouts but don't "jump ahead" too much or you'll regret it!