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"The Exercise Secret"

By Rita Jagodzinski

Fitness expert reveals THE SECRET To EXERCISE

You are about to read a great secret to feeling great both physically and mentally…
Are you ready?

I have come up with proven strategies (SECRETS) that have worked for hundreds of my personal training clients, helped them look and feel great both physically and mentally and develop lifetime healthy habits. “As you learn the secret you will come to know how you can achieve anything you want.” May the secret bring you the best in health. This is my intention for you.

1. The secret to making a commitment to your exercise program. Set exercise appointments with yourself. Use your day timer to set appointments for exercise- and then stick to them. You wouldn’t miss a business meeting or client appointment, would you? So don’t miss your exercise appointment with yourself. Nothing is more important than your health. Nothing. Everything else will crumble around you if your health goes south. So make your exercise appointments a priority. Take out your calendar right now and mark off three days each week for the next 9 weeks when you will commit to exercising. Then do it. Your consistent commitment will bring you the results you want.

2. The secret of having a coach. Almost every self help book ever written talks about the critical importance of having a coach/mentor. A coach is an experienced and trusted counselor or teacher. It’s inevitable that you will come up against hard times on your path to losing weight and getting fit. A coach will guide, motivate, educate and support you – so you can easily overcome these hurdles. A coach is critical to systemizing your exercise program for maximum results and assisting you in your motivation and strengthening your commitment. Exercise and nutrition are bona fide sciences and learning everything you need to know on your own can take years of struggle – but not if you have a coach.

3. The BIGGEST secret: Accountability. The real “secret” is quite simple and I’ll distill it for you right here: eat 4 to 5 meals per day and perform a combination of aerobic and resistance exercise for 30 to 60 minutes 3-5 times a week. But most people lack the personal accountability to achieve their weight loss and fitness goals. In a recent study at Virginia Polytechnic University, researchers divided people starting a walking program into two groups. Every week, each individual in one group got a phone call asking how their exercise program was coming along, the other group got no calls. At the end of 24 weeks, 45% of the individuals who got the phone calls were still walking compared to just 2% who did not receive calls. The results show that weekly accountability increases the likelihood of sticking to your exercise program by 2200%!

I have discovered that the ultimate secret to getting the results you want is finding a coach who understands you and provides you with an effective weight loss and exercise program and guidance, motivation, support… but most of all, a coach who makes you ACCOUNTABLE.

The ONLY thing that works is commitment to a healthy diet and regular exercise. You’ve got to burn more calories than you consume – simple as that.

About the Author:

Rita Jagodzinski is the owner of Fitness Together in Darien & New Canaan, CT. Her website is www.fitnesstogetherct.com