Are you willing to pay the price?
Fitness or weight loss demands regularity. That is, both require constant attention to the basics . These include diet, supplementation and exercise.
One has to do all three every day of the week. To the person starting out, this may seem intolerable. it may make him or her think that five days a week may be enough with a returning to old easy habits on the weekends. As understandable as that may be, it is really not enough to attain the desired ends.
Everyone wants to have a fit and attractive body. But few are really willing to pay the price for it. That requires a commitment to a way of living which will in fact take off the weight while restoring the muscularity and skin tone which is commonly associated with youthfulness.
There are no easy answers to making positive physical transformations. Success at them always requires proper diet, regular supplementation and effective exercise. Nothing less will provide the desired results. In other words, everything from liposuction to fat burners are doomed to ultimate failure beyond the first overnight set of changes.
Dedication is needed. This is a commitment which is the same as the brushing of one's teeth. No one would think of brushing only five times a week, taking a much needed holiday on Saturday and Sunday. In a like manner no one would think of taking off from doing so on his or her birthday or on Christmas. Showing up at celebrations without having brushed would be unthinkable.
Yet, when it comes to the elements of a fitness lifestyle--those which are founded on diet, supplementation and exercise-everything is different. Doing the right things in these areas are almost always viewed as simply too much.The belief is that more fun and more enjoyment is needed to maintain ones mental health. It is as if seven days per week of fitness will drain out an essential part of one's humanity.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In the same way as brushing ones teeth clears away food particles and brightens one's smile, proper diet, supplementation and exercise clears away toxins, stimulates muscle growth and oxygenates one's entire system. Doing these on a regular basis takes one to the desired fitness levels and keeps one there as desired.
Having a fitness lifestyle in the same mental category as the brushing of a person's teeth is the first crucial step to becoming fit and staying there forever. However, most of us fail to take this first very important step. Instead, we make the mistake of equating fitness with a boring and dreary job from which we need the weekend to recover to say nothing of early retirement-- something which results only in our becoming sedentary. fat and lethargic. This is the greatest error in the thought processes of most of us and the first thing to seriously consider changing when starting a new routine.
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About the Author
Obese 45 years ago; state champion power lifter 1978; in better shape today at 61 than when on swim team in high school
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