How To Make Your Exercise Enjoyable and Fun Again

Apr 25
08:05

2011

Sarah J. Dillon

Sarah J. Dillon

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Exercise plays a large role in weight loss..but many people struggle with sticking to a regular exercise regime. These 3 tips will help you to make exercise play a vital role in your weight loss regime.

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Losing weight may seem like a task that is never quite finished. It takes a lot of work,How To Make Your Exercise Enjoyable and Fun Again Articles and discipline in eating.  Choosing to exercise can expedite this process by revving up your metabolism to burn calories.  There are many different ways to exercise, and you should find which is best for you.
   
The top two reasons people do not exercise, or start and do not follow through, are because they get bored or injure themselves from poor form.  There are ways to make exercising enjoyable while avoiding injury. 

1.Make Your Exercise Enjoyable
One way is to take up a sport, and have a coach.  Many people do not like exercise because it seems like exercise.  A great way to curb this is to make it a competition or a game.  This way, you interpret it as more of a game or something entertaining than a chore like regular exercise.  To avoid injury, you should seek out a coach or trainer.  They will teach you the correct form to use when exercising or playing your sport.
   
2.Do the Exercise Audit With Your Food
Another great thing to do to encourage yourself to exercise is to equate everything you eat in excess to the amount of time it would take to burn off the calories in it.  Research the calorie count of your pleasure foods, like sweets, and then find out how many calories you burn every thirty minutes of exercise. 

How many hours will you have to exercise to burn off that extra piece of chocolate cake?  This should make you think twice about over eating, and it should also encourage you to exercise because you know what you ate and what you need to do to burn it off.
   
3.Enlist an Exercise Friend
Exercising with a friend always makes the experience more bearable.  Having someone to chat with or compete against makes the time fly by.  Later, you two can compare how toned your muscles have gotten.  Mutual praise is a great reward a well.  Also, schedule your workouts. 

Do not leave them to the mercy of doing it when you feel like it, because you may not ever particularly feel like it.  Writing them in ink on a schedule makes you feel obligated.  It will become habitual, and will get done with the rest of your responsibilities.
   
These few tips on making exercise more bearable for weight loss can make the difference between your efforts being successful, and it becoming simply another forgotten New Year’s Resolution.  Make exercising fun, learn how what you eat affects your exercise goals, and make it a group event.  You will be sure to reach your goals then.


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