Fastest way to lose weight, part 4

In my previous posting I talked about creating healthy and realistic goals; to learn to enjoy eating vegetables and fruits as snack and small meals. Today we are going to look at something most people fear; or do wrong: exercising. Yes; you got it right; many are exercising the wrong way. They have decided to practice for maybe 30 minutes to one hour each week. When they practice they often attend to social exercising. By social exercising I mean exercises that are less efficient and less good to achieve weight loss.

They are partly right; they should start exercising some days each week; but they shouldn’t just be at the gym, and not being really exercised. I am currently working on practicing on a 5k training program. This program demands that I focus on one goal; to improve my health conditions and gradually improve my timing. I do not have a goal to become the fastest person on 5k; I have no goal to practice to just do something. I have a concrete goal; to run 5k, and improve my current position. It’s practically going from the sofa to being somehow good at running 5. I don’t start with more than 3 exercises each week; and I don’t include more advanced methods for the first weeks. For a starter I even allow myself to walk a bit; since it’s really hard; the feet are heavy and I often taste blood in my mouth. Even thought I feel pain while exercising it also feel good. It feels good to be able to run/walk and doing something for my health.

If you really want to practice and lose weight you should set specific goals within an activity. It could be running, biking, rowing or whatever. But you should have a goal with your practice; to achieve something. You really don’t exercise well if you spend most of your time talking your friends while practicing. The correct way would be to set concrete goals and improvements within what you want to do. In the beginning you will experience a lot of improvement; these improvements will be significant less as time passes. You will reach a point it takes time to get pass. These times give less hope. It’s really hard doing something when you don’t feel improvement; the right thing to do is to maintain your current level; and include changes to your program. If running is the example you would include run hilling and other exercises giving more methods to improve upon.