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First, Build Your Will Power Muscle
Burning 2800 calories a week doing moderate, short duration exercise or committing to 1 hour of exercise everyday may sound like a mighty task especially if you've been used to sitting on the couch for any extended period of time. So how do you get started going from doing little to no exercise to making exercise a part of your daily routine. Simple... Make a habit out of exercise.
Get Moving and Start With A Walk
And how do you make a habit of exercise? Simple again... exercise every day. That's 7 days a weeks. Start slow, like a 20 minute walk or something to that affect. If you can't do twenty minutes, try 2 10 minutes walks broken up for different parts of the day.
Get Smart, Get a pedometer
Another way to ensure you getting exercise is to carry a pedometer with you. Carrying a pedometer allows you to log in how many steps you take in a day. If you take the example above, 20 minutes of walking roughly equals 2000 steps or about 1 mile. With a pedometer, aim to first get to 2000 steps a day. The pedometer will keep you focused on both achieving your goal, and if you're ambitious enough, breaking your previous day's goal.
set Small, Attainable Goals
After a couple of weeks, try to lengthen your walks to 40 minutes or 4000 steps per day. Two weeks following that see if you can't reach walking 60 minutes or 6000 steps per day. This routine is perfect for the beginner who finds it difficult to exercise continually in a 30 -60 min block of time.
Don't Go A Day WITHOUT A Walk
Walking with a pedometer will have you focusing on the day's worth of activity and not just one block of time. This way you can find time to exercise in small increments throughout the day, which can really add up to a significant amount of time exercising. Try not to make up for a day of inactivity or even a slow day by overdoing it the next day. This may leave you sore and not wanting to exercise the following day. Instead, just work out normally if you miss a day. Or, if you really have the desire to push it for missing a day, simply take it easy and walk the following day. The point is to NEVER go a day without doing some form of exercise, not matter how insignificant the activity may be.
