Get Fit, Stay Fit, Today

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Could you be on the lookout for something that promises a good return on your investment? Something guaranteed to help you live a long, strong and healthy life?

Well here is one for you – it’s called proper exercise. Nothing fancy, nothing hi tech or technical, no hidden costs. The only requirement to initiate this investment is you have to become more active. With a small down payment of couple of sessions a week, your investment could grow and the returns are guaranteed.

We are all concerned about saving enough money and investing wisely during our working years to ensure financial security in retirement. With personal strength and fitness, it is the same and the sooner you start to invest the better. The best time to begin an active life is when you are young, and the second best time is to start right now.

We all really do know that proper exercise is good for us, but sometimes our vision gets clouded and we lose track of what is really important in our life. We may ask ourselves “What could be more important than our health?” Without vigorous physical activity on a regular basis, there is no way that a person can have a high quality of health right across their lifetime.

A century ago life was very different in that most people had to be physically active just to meet the daily demands of life. Our busy modern day lifestyles enable us to get through the day without having to move much at all. Just as a diet of junk food leads to health problems down the road, a diet of little to no vigorous physical activity leads to the greater risk of disease and illness down the road.

If you aren’t moving much now, or your movements are limited to going from the bed, to the desk, to the table, to the couch, and to the bed again – it is only going to get worse as you get older. Our bodies are not programmed for this lack of movement and begin a downward spiral of accelerated aging releasing a steady stream of chemicals that tell our cells not to rebuild, repair, renew or rejuvenate themselves.

Building and maintaining strength and fitness can be one of the healthiest things you can do for your health. However, in today’s fast-paced society, many people focus their time trying to accumulate self-wealth instead of self-health. But if health is lost somewhere down the track how much wealth is then spent trying to recover health?

Keep you eye on the real prize because in the long run it is health that determines how long one stays employed in the workforce and whether one can live a healthy and active lifestyle after the working life is over.

If you are thinking about putting off your participation in an exercise program for another day, think again about what you could be paying in health returns in the long-run. If you start treating your strength, fitness and health as an investment though, it can be an investment opportunity that pays you a far greater dividend than any financial investment you could ever make.

Resolve to put aside the time for exercise. After all what is more important than your health? Surfing the internet, watching TV, cleaning, talking or texting on the phone? Surely not – no way!

By simply starting to exercise and sticking with it, you have the opportunity to reduce the risk of diseases like the “big three” heart disease, cancer and diabetes. You are also creating a healthier way of life for yourself by keeping your muscle mass, bone strength and density and maintaining a healthy body weight.

Additionally, exercise helps contribute to healthy mental states, keeping us smarter and sharp as a tack, along with staying saner with a reduction in stress. You are doing something great for yourself as no one else can.

Owning a habit like exercising regularly is something really valuable that no amount of money can buy. It is better than money in the bank. So make your deposits, become wealthy and look and feel a million bucks.

Do you want to discover the secret to rejuvenating your body, regaining lost vitality and improving the quality of your life? Download my free ebook “I’ve Found the Fountain of Youth – Let Me Show You Too!” ReverseAging

Carolyn Hansen is a certified fitness expert and fitness center owner who coaches clients to look and feel younger. In her nearly 30 years of fitness and bodybuilding competition experience she has helped thousands of people start their journey towards being strong, fit and youthful at any age.

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You may be exercising regularly but maybe you are not achieving the results you desire or think you should be achieving for the amount of time you are investing in your exercise routine. Fact is you can have the best of intentions and do a lot of things right in your exercise routine, but you also could be failing to do some very important things that could well impair your overall results.

Here are three of the biggest mistakes that can be made with your exercise program and the solutions on how you can get back on the path to awesome results.

Mistake 1: Not including strength training in your workout – All too often, people gravitate toward cardio type exercise such as walking, jogging, cycling etc and shun strength training. This is particularly true of women, who often avoid strength training because they think they are going to get too bulky or because they don’t want to add toned muscle tissue until they reach their ideal body weight. This is a huge mistake.

Without question, strength training is the most important thing you can do for your health, wellness and appearance – hands down, without question, end of story. It improves your posture, shapes your body, increases strength and tones your muscles- things that aerobic type exercise can never ever do.

It is also the best activity for losing excess body fat and maintaining your ideal body weight. Muscle is metabolically active tissue that increases your resting metabolism so you are burning calories throughout the day. If you can put on five pounds of lean muscle tissue – which anyone can do within several months – you can burn in excess of an additional 1,000 calories a week. Cardio type activity only focus’s on what calories are burned during the exercise session. Strength training exercise increases the rate you burn fuel every minute permanently. A very big difference.

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Mistake 2: Not training with adequate intensity of effort – You now have a strength training program in place, but are you training hard enough to make a difference?

Human nature is to seek pleasure and avoid pain so it is understandable not to enjoy feeling your muscles burn while struggling to finish off those last few repetitions of an exercise. But the fact is, if you aren’t struggling, you never ever going to see the results you desire. The idea is to make your body stronger and to do that you have to make it work harder than it has done before.

Those little pink dumbbells are just not going to do the job. In order to bring about a change in your physique you need to tax your muscles. No two ways about it. This means the last few reps of your set need to be difficult, if not impossible, to complete. Only by sufficiently challenging your muscles beyond their present capacity will you set the stage for muscle toning and development. Translation: Lack of intensity (lack of effort) leads to a lack of muscle tone.

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Mistake 3: Not having a game plan – When it comes to getting great results from your exercise program it is all about strategy. It is a waste of time showing up at the gym and not knowing what you are going to be doing that day. Walking around aimlessly doing a little of this and a little of that accomplishes very little.

If you need some help hire a fitness professional to set up your program and teach you correct exercise technique. They can also teach you correct exercise intensity so you do not waste time on ineffective exercises or on how you perform them.

The important thing is to know exactly what you are going to do and why before you start each workout. It is a good idea to keep a workout log and monitor your own progress over a period of time. If you implement these strategies you will be able to look forward to getting the maximum results in the minimum amount of time.

Do you want to discover the secret to rejuvenating your body, regaining lost vitality and improving the quality of your life? Download my free ebook “I’ve Found the Fountain of Youth – Let Me Show You Too!” Reverse Aging

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Carolyn Hansen is a certified fitness expert and fitness center owner who coaches clients to look and feel younger. In her nearly 30 years of fitness and bodybuilding competition experience she has helped thousands of people start their journey towards being strong, fit and youthful at any age.