5 Reasons You Can't Stick to Exercise

By Paige Waehner, About.com GuideJune 20, 2012

"I don't have any problem working out," one of my clients said to me one day, "It's just the fact that I have to keep doing it over and over and over. I mean, what's up with that?"

It's true that exercise, like brushing your teeth, is something you have to keep doing if you really want to lose weight, maintain your weight and/or avoid that dreaded starting-all-over feeling that comes when you've missed more than a week of exercise.

There are a number of reasons we find it hard to stay committed to exercise and I've put together the most common in my latest article, 5 Reasons You Can't Stick to Exercise. If your workouts are too hard or, worse, you don't even like your workouts, how motivated are you to keep doing them?

PE Students: Do you find it hard to stick to an exercise program for the long term?

 If so, what's standing in your way?  Click on either of the links above to find out more and write a response in your reflection journal.  

Confused About Carbs? 5 Common Myths

Confused About Carbs? 5 Common Myths: via HuffPost http://huff.to/LxYjDu

Susan B. Dopart, M.S., R.D., C.D.E.

Nutrition and Fitness Consultant

The Simple Truth: A healthy way of eating is to consume natural, non-man-made carbohydrates from vegetables, fruits, nuts/seeds, beans and legumes. They have a low glycemic index (meaning they do not raise your blood sugar) since they contain fiber, and are full of vitamins, minerals and nutrients to enhance your health... and there's nothing mythical about that!


P.E. Students:  click on the link above to read more about different types of carbohydrates in our diet and some suggestions/ myth busting advice.


Respond in your journal to any of the myths/ and suggestions and specifically how this applies to what you eat, and/or plan to eat in the future.

Focus on strength!

Don't waste a second on the treadmill

If you have only 30 to 40 minutes to a workout, then every second has to count. You can achieve faster fat loss with resistance training than running. A University of Southern Maine study found that a single set of weight training exercises torches as many calories as running at a 6 minute mile pace for the same amount of time. So for every second you spend lifting weights, your body is expending high amounts of energy.

Tie in the metabolism boost that resistance training provides, you create a much larger metabolic impact that long-distance running does. The added benefit for resistance training that running can't provide are the gains in strength and new lean tissue. A University of North Dakota study also found an additional benefit of resistance training--done correctly, through a proper range of motion, resistance training can also improve flexibility as well or even better than static stretching.

To further increase these benefits, paying attention to your nutritional habits yields greater rewards.

*thanks to Surrey school district PE helping teacher Glenn Young for this info.

The benefits of regular strength exercises to one's overall fitness and health is well known.
But strength does not have to be weightlifting!
  Here is a link to a No Equipment Bootcamp Workout that you can try...give this circuit a try and write about it in your reflection journal.  You can also research other resistance training routines and try one out for your next activity log.. http://exercise.about.com/library/blworkoutcenter2.htm
.... remembering that variety is a good thing!