4 Excuses Not to Exercise:

A recent study published in the medical journal 'The Physician and Sports Medicine' cited four of the most common barriers to exercise.

1. Lack of Time

In our busy lives, time, becomes one of the great pursuits. Time to be at home, time to relax, time to spend with your kids and time to enjoy life. Here are some things that we know about exercise:

a. Exercise gives you energy
b. Exercises gives you strength and endurance
c. Exercise gives you focus

When we exercise, we actually find out we have better energy to move faster during the day, a sharper mental focus to accomplish our tasks at a greater rate of efficiency and more endurance to handle harder work for longer periords of time and still get home to be with family.

2. Embarrassment at Taking Part in the Activity

Our lifestyle, habits and activities have placed us in the situation we are in presently and without changing something, where do you think we will wind up tomorrow??? Sometimes we have to stop and change our focus. When we think about what other people are possibly thinking, we get side tracked from our goals, from what is important and from what will ultimately change our lives. If you are not happy with where you are, what are you willing to do to get to where you want to be???

3. The Inability to Exercise Vigorously

Part of exercise is improving cardiovascular health and to do that, means we need to challenge the body. With that said, there is nothing wrong with walking short distances or lifting light weights as a means of getting started on an exercise program. Your trainer will help you through the chaos and knows, what you can do, what you can take and from where you will be starting. It may feel like you are going to die to get startd with, but it is only temporary and you will find that part of the experience is learning the want, the desire, the need - to fight.

4. The Lack of Enjoyment

Every client that I have that has taken off 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 pounds will tell you that what they went through was totally worth it. When they finally get the scale to start to move, it becomes addicting. They find out that they can actually do this, that they can actually accomplish something and that they can actually get to their goals. This sense of accomplishment is incredibly empowering and leads to new levels of confidence. Mostly, I think people become so excited about their new found self that the other stuff (pain and suffering) just doesn't matter as much.

The greatest thing that a client can gain from training, is to recover the will to fight. To fight for what they want, to fight to fix their problems and most importantly, to fight to get their life back. This is your life - don't be afraid to fight for it!