Motivation & Obstacles

OK, you are all fired up, motivated, and ready to go. You have new training shoes, have just gone up a dress size, and you have seen new numbers on the bathroom scales that are frightening you. You may be battling the bulge, or just wanting to improve your fitness in general. You have told yourself, and possibly others, that you are starting an exercise program.

The news is filled with scientific studies about the benefits of exercise. Television channels advertise exercise equipment, diet pills, celebrity diets and fitness regimes aimed at losing fat and gaining muscle in 10 weeks or less. With all of this blatant propaganda, it can be hard to see the simplest and most heart felt benefits of regular exercise. Exercise provides higher levels of health for the body. It improves the body's function and ability to fight new disease and the progression of disease.