More Adults Don’t Exercise at All
Than Exercise Correctly

About one in five adults takes on a high level of physical activity, while one in four engage in little or no regular physical activity, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Regular leisure time physical activity includes exercise, sports or active hobbies that cause light sweating or an increase in breathing or heart rate occurring five or more times per week for at least 30 minutes each time.

Additionally, vigorous activities that cause heavy sweating or large increases in breathing or heart rate three or more times a week for at least 20 minutes each time were also included.

Some 19 percent of adults are "very active during usual daily activities and engage in regular leisure time physical activity". Typically, men engage in a high level of physical activity more often than women.

Goal-setting techniques are valuable when applied to behaviours such as exercising.

Let’s say you want to revamp and organize your lifestyle in such a way that there is always time for exercise.

In order to do this, you might express an exercise goal like this: “I will briskly walk five kilometers a day, four times a week, every week, in the morning before work.”

Walking five kilometers a day, four times a week, every week is a goal that can be measured.

Further, you have attached a specific time slot to your exercise session – in the morning before work – and this make your goal all the more specific and keeps you efficiently on track.

OR you might do this:
Purchase a pedometer, a device you can attach to your belt or pocket that when activated, measures the exact number of steps you take over the course of a day. When you can measure an outcome, your chances of success go
way, way up.
You see, in concrete detail, how close you are to achieving your goal.

There is reinforcement and motivating power that comes with seeing yourself succeed like this.¹

¹The Seven Keys to Weight Loss Freedom – the Ultimate weight solution
Dr Phil McGraw, Simon Schuster 2003

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