Why is exercising so difficult?

People will often approach working out as a chore and wonder why they are able to sustain the practice. If this is you, here are tips that can help. read more

It’s easy to put exercise on your “wouldn’t it be nice” list, but fitness is too important to keep on the back burner. “There are so many health benefits that come from being physically active, like reducing your risk for chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease, but it’s especially important for parents to stay fit,” Wakefield says. read more

Lastly, exercising is hard. But it gets much easier to get addicted to it and keep at it when you put time and effort into learning about it, when you approach it as a science and get fascinated by it, when you see yourself progressing week by week, see yourself faster/stronger/better week by week, and when you keep challenging yourself to do something better than you did last week. read more

Often it comes down to motivation. “Parents typically don’t get enough sleep and spend their days constantly responding to needs of another human being,” says Dominique Wakefield, a personal trainer and wellness coach based in Berrien Springs, MI. read more

Ideally in a park. Keep increasing either your speed or the amount of time you're walking for week by week. If you're able to brisk walk for 30 mins - 1 hour, its a good form of exercise. Eventually moving on to jogging would be a good idea. Leave running/sprinting for later. Besides using a treadmill/cycle/elliptical, there are many ways to exercise. read more

Okay, so no one has told you until now, so I'll let you in on the secret: The hard part is easy, it's the easy part that's hard! That first step is the hardest step, the first week is the hardest week, the first month is the hardest month. read more