Why do we work out?
1. How many people would say to lose weight?
- Now how many of those people, that losing weight is their sole purpose for exercise actively, are doing it on a regular basis? Or keep it up after the weight has been temporarily lost?
2. How many people say because they like it?
- Why do they like it? It gives them a rush of endorphins, which in turn make them feel better; then by default they lose weight, are more likely to eat better, and more likely to continue to work-out regularly.
So which one do you think is more likely to teach their children healthy exercise habits and keep up exercise throughout their own life? I think we all would agree it is more likely that #2 will.
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We need to change the way that we think about daily exercise! Instead of seeing it as, “I am doing this to lose weight and eventually be healthier,” we need to see it as a way to make us feel better right now!
If we feel sluggish and slow; maybe we need to up the exercise and healthy foods.Often when we judge our physical health (no matter how good our diet is or how much we exercise) on the numbers that we see on the scale, we feel guilty or ashamed. Instead of making ourselves feel guilty for the numbers we see on scale, we need to base our health on how we feel.Michelle L. Segar, a research investigator at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan, said in an interview. “Physical activity is an elixir of life, but we’re not teaching people that. We’re telling them it’s a pill to take or a punishment for bad numbers on the scale. Sustaining physical activity is a motivational and emotional issue, not a medical one.”
If we hop out of bed every morning and are ready & excited for the day ahead then we are probably in better mental and physical health than the scale every could recognize.
Change your mind-set about what working out means to you and it will probably become easier to do, more fun, and more impactful.
