Sticking to a good exercise routine

Exercise is vital to your success on your health plan. So, how do you come up with a plan that you can live with, without feeling like you're killing yourself? I have some ideas. Check out my top list for creating your plan.

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   Plan it with your calendar: scheduling your workout makes you more accountable to actually doing it.

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   If you do not see the results that you are looking for weight loss wise, when you look at the calendar and see that you did not workout as often as you had planned, it is easier to see why.

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   Start small. Adding a simple ten minute stretching routine to your early morning can be enough to get you going in the right direction. Setting a huge goal of spinning daily, might be too much for you if you are not working out regularly at the moment.

3. Find something fun to do. Maybe you are more social – how about a team sport, like tennis? Involve some friends and make it a social gathering. Incorporating something active in your daily routine that doesn’t feel like work, makes getting healthy something that you do to celebrate your wellness, rather than work to lose weight.

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   Get a workout buddy. It’s more fun with a friend than it is alone. There will also be days where you won’t feel like working out. If you know that there is someone else that is relying on you, it will make it much harder to skip working out on that day.

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   Change it up. Getting bored is one of the main reasons why people stop working out. Make it a goal to try one new thing each month – a new class, a new sport, a new activity, so that you are always changing it up. This is also wonderful for your muscles. Over time your muscles get really used to doing the same exercise over and over again. This makes them super efficient at that exercise. Good for them, Bad for your weight loss goals. Changing your routine up keeps your muscles burning at the max and speeds up weight loss.