How to Get in the Mood for Exercise

Exercise is definitely something you should make time for. Everyone needs to do some kind of exercise on a regular basis to keep fit and healthy, but many are not, which is one of the reasons for the growing problem of obesity. The trouble is that exercise requires some degree of physical exertion and people have become too reliant on technology to actually bother doing anything. In the past, you had to walk everywhere because, unless you were rich, you didn’t own a car; plus, you were more likely to have a physically demanding job. Thus, it used to be the case that exercise was an inescapable part of life.

This is obviously not the case now, though, as you can easily get away with doing nothing if you spend your working day sat behind a desk and use your free time to watch television and play computer games. If this is how you live your life it can be difficult to change, as why should you bother? When all your friends and relatives avoid exercise why should you do anything to become fitter? It’s hard enough to motivate yourself to exercise, but when nobody else does any exercise it can be even more challenging.

You might want to think of it this way, though; if you’re one of the few people you know who does any exercise you can feel rather superior about it. You don’t have to rub your friends’ faces in the fact that you’re so much fitter than they are, but you will feel so much better when you’re walking and talking with ease while your companions are puffing and panting for air. By exercising regularly you are keeping your heart healthy and reducing your risk of having a heart attack or stroke, as well as developing serious other serious health conditions such as diabetes.

Plus, regular exercise should make it easier for you to remain a healthy weight and enable you to eat quite a bit more food than your friends who sit around all day doing nothing. Exercise makes you feel more upbeat and positive, as feel-good chemicals are released into your body. Thus, it won’t be as difficult to motivate yourself to exercise in future as you want to experience the buzz you get from keeping active again and again.

Although you may struggle to get in the right mood to exercise, at first, if you concentrate on the benefits of regular exercise and throw yourself into a new exercise regime you soon won’t be able to live without it.