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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Some Days You Just Don't Feel Like Doing It

It’s raining, it’s pouring and the last thing anyone wants to do right now is hit the pavement running for 30 minutes of cardio, especially if you’re doing it alone. Starting an exercise program to keep fit is one thing, but staying with the program and keeping your motivation level high is another. Find out how you can stay on track when there is no one pushing you to succeed.
 

1. Plan a Kedge: Chris Crowley, author of the best selling book “Younger Next Year Journal,” encourages readers to practice a technique which he has termed kedging. According to Crowley, a kedge (based on an old nautical term meaning “pulling forward”) is a special fitness event/reward that will help keep you focused during those challenging times so you do not throw in the exercise towel. Kedges can be serious motivators during your daily workout routines and can help individuals stay on their fitness track.   In other words, you can be moving forward or looking forward to your kedge, which might  be a luxurious biking trip in Italy, a cheap and bohemian-chique Yoga retreat, a weekend intensive or a weeklong vacation, but striving to get to that kedge should be challenging.

2. Try Teaming Up: A fitness club need not necessarily be confinded to a gym, as you can take your workout beyond those four walls. One of the advantages of hooking up with a local club or organization like Road Runners or leagues such as ZogSports in New York City is that you don’t have to plan ahead. Just show up and follow the crowd for an awesome workout.

3. Find Power in People: It’s easy to get into a funk when you are pulling all the weight alone. If you schedule yourself in to attend a couple of group fitness classes a week, think Spin, Cardio Kickbox and/or Total Body Conditioning, there’s a good chance you will benefit from the collective energy.

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  • Pooh's Avatar
    Posted by Pooh Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:38pm PDT

    HI! I HAVE A BOYFIEND WHO WANTS TO WORK ON OUR RELATIONSHIP. WE'VE BEEN TOGETHERE OFF AND ON FOR A COUPLE OF MONTH'S. WE JUST RECENTLY LINKED UP WITH EACH OTHER ABOUT A MONTH AGO. WE ONLY BEEN ITIMATE ONCE. BUT NOW EVERYTIME HE CALLS ME HE'S ALWAYS ASKING AM I GOING TO GIVE HIM SOME.WHAT SHOULD I DO.

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  • Tara's Avatar
    Posted by Tara Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:25am PDT

    HI!

    If he wants to boost your guys relationship up.

    and fix the problems you two are having then I think that is an

    perfect idea.... BUT if all he thinks about is SEX, all the time,

    I dont think he understands you and the way that your trying to explain. I think that you should ask him (face to face), if he really cares about you, if he atleast thinks about you, if all he cares about is your two's SEX Relation. Then you'll know wat to do. BELIEVE ME!

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  • Mauna's Avatar
    Posted by Mauna Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:42pm PDT

    I find it highly boring when I find myself doing a 'routine' type of lifestyle....I am one that needs a wide range of activities that give myself excitement and invigoration as for energy and feeling good about myself from exercise to talents. Once you have 'mastered' something it becomes extremely boring. However, not unless...one is brilliant minded and can step it up to make it more of a challenge? I had always believed that progressing in life...does not mean doing the SAME OL' Darn thing over and over and over again, but progressing forward in life also means to advance in a variety of things in life from your weaknesses to strengths. I call this secret...Finding one's own personal TRUE potentials...to reveal to yourself who and what you are as a real person underneath all the stories and Fairy tales that all of us are buried under by.

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