Daily Reminders

Print off this list and put it somewhere you will see it often.  Here are 10 reasons to help keep you moving.

1) Look at exercise as a pleasure and a privilege, not a burden or chore. Think positively about the changes regular exercise will produce. Rather than obsessing about your next meal, get excited about your next workout!

2) Focus on short-term fitness goals with an emphasis on completing daily exercise.

3) Work to take your exercise to new levels of intensity.

4) Make it your goal to do some form of exercise 6 or 7 days a week. If some days you exercise once in the morning and once in the evening, even better! If you're eating right, exercise will fuel your energy level!

5) Create an exercise schedule the day or week before instead of leaving it to chance or waiting to "find" the time. If the last three Presidents of the United States can make time to work out every day, you can make time too!

6) Enjoy contributing to the health of others by having a partner or friends to exercise with, as well as recruiting others who want to feel better and have more energy.

7)Avoid monotony by taking up new forms of exercising, or using things that keep you motivated and inspired, like new shoes or great music.

8) Invest in the right tools—good shoes, a portable MP3 player or iPod®, fitness equipment, a new series of tapes, etc.

9) Subscribe to fitness magazines to keep focused on health as an overall way of life.

10) Eat well-balanced meals and remember that excess calories, even if they're from food that's fat free and high in protein, will turn to excess weight. No matter what the latest fad diet says, extra calories equal extra weight!