What’s your relationship like with exercise?

Would you kiss, marry, or avoid it? (I’m sure the version you heard at school was a bit less censored)

Is it one where you like the idea of it but aren’t quite committed enough to make it a mainstay in your life?

Is it one that you completely love and make it part of your lifestyle?

Or is it something you avoid like the plague? Or…Covid19…

How we see things is down to the meaning we give them.

The ‘kiss‘ example, the headspace where exercise is looked at as important and the benefits are known (to a degree) however the busyness of life is allowed to influence the regime and it’s not prioritized.

The ‘marry’ example, the headspace where exercise and its attachment to personal success, happiness, confidence, therapy, structure, and confidence is made. No matter how busy you get, you always make this regime an integral part of your life. Often the big picture of health has to be present to tap into these perceptions with exercise (sleep, nutrition, stress reduction techniques, goal setting, chunking, balance, scheduling, etc), that’s successful health fitness and wellbeing managemnt.

The ‘avoid’ example…Well, there’s a limiting belief or fear attached to the outcome of not doing it. Fear of trying and not ‘losing the weight’, ‘not sporty’, ‘got an injury’, ‘tired’, ‘not enough time’… I mean this in a supportive caring way, that’s BS, drop it…exercise will change your energy, balance your hormones, psychology, and physiology and essentially build your character to become a stronger more productive version of yourself. Anybody who doesn’t want that is telling porkies… no matter ‘how far gone’ you may feel.

I’m going to just lay this out in black and white…(or at least the font colour and white)

Here’s why we can’t afford NOT to make an exercise regime part of our life:

It elevates mental health.
It’s the best anti-depressant you can use.
It’s an awesome outlet for emotional processing.
It builds your self-credibility.
It allows you to take time for yourself.
It accelerates your metabolism (easy to lose healthy weight, burn fat and build muscle).
It changes the way our cells utilize nutrients (improves the body’s biochemistry, better system function such as heart health, energy production, immunity, and hormone balance).
It builds self-esteem and confidence.
It can be sociable.
It improves your sleep pattern.
It improves your appetite.
It enables you (with other factors) to manage a healthy weight, burn body fat, build muscle.
It’s a main cornerstone to optimal health (regardless of your goals).
The discipline with exercise feeds into other areas of life, not just self-care (work, relationships, etc).
It gives balance to life…Time away from the desk, time on your own…
It strengthens your bones (lower risk of osteoporosis and a great way to manage it).
It helps slow the aging process (with the presence of the other aspects).
It gives personal accountability.
It helps build your personal relationship with yourself.
It enables you to be your true self and stops you from hiding behind screens (baggy clothes, not speaking your voice).

There a many many more and far more in-depth anatomical, reasons.

But that lot there is enough of a list to build the value of exercise for you.

It’s such a common thing that people exercise out of hate for their body, exercise to lose the ‘muffin top’, or the ‘tyre’ etc…Doing it out of hate will come back around to bite you on the arse.

Also when life gives an opportunity for you not to do it, the why behind the action isn’t strong enough, then the whole ‘on the wagon off the wagon’ mentality kicks in. A.K.A…Inconsistency, yuk. no room for that kind of neglect.

Marry it, the reasons for why, make them strong, plan it, learn more about it, schedule it, make it part of your life, don’t make excuses with it, prioritize yourself enough to make your own personal appointment with it (if that’s hard, get a coach). Your life really depends on it.

Does your relationship with exercise need to change for you to level up?

The best version of you exercises and keeps fit/healthy. that’s the nucleus to everything.

Like anything, first, it comes from thoughts, then energy vibration, into action, outcomes, then lastly patterns.

Of course, it’s up to you to make your own decisions, however, if it’s from a place of fear, doubt, insecurity, and/or limiting beliefs, I’m here to help you break through that crap.

Because it’s there for the taking, everything on that list, and more.

There isn’t one person that I have worked with that has regretted building exercise into their life.

Smash it!

Much of the lovings.

– Coach Paul