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From: Aspasia
Date: 25 Jan 2001
Time: 04:51 AM
For me, the most important motivation is basic health - I exercise to retain the ability to move and flex and lift things. I don't know what your lifestyle is like, but I'm almost 40 years old and I sit at a desk all day, moving nothing but my fingers. When it comes to your body, the adage is true: Use it or Lose it. If I don't get any exercise for months, I become less strong, have less endurance, and have much less flexibility.
Maybe you're bored with your routine - another type of exercise might be beneficial, mentally and physically. I always enjoy strength training (weight lifting) because it's quite simple to do. You can get a good workout with just a couple dumbbells, and you can achieve meaningful exercise in 10 minutes - it's the repetitions that count, not the minutes you spend.
The other thing I like about strength training is I get results quickly, which is wonderful for morale. Within two weeks I can see and feel more muscle. At the same time, if you're female you don't have to worry about becoming over-muscled: you just don't have the hormones to do it, and even for men it takes years of deliberate effort to look like that.
When I first started exercising regularly, I did it for weight loss. I wasn't successful, and it was hard to motivate myself to do something that seemed useless and pointless. Like why hit yourself in the head with a rock over and over? I had to go through a period of non-exercise to realize all the health benefits I was missing, weight loss or no weight loss. Don't equate everything in your life to that goal!
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