Health, Fitness and Diet books are plentiful and yet people continue to eat themselves into obesity and disease. Everyone is buying all these books looking for the "Secret" to health and fitness. The reality is there is no "Secret" and there is good information in all the books but the key is to take action every day. I believe in Keeping it Simple and Just Doing It.
Many years ago I came back from college and I had gained some weight, no I gained a lot of weight and my young nephew started to call me the "Pillsbury Dough Boy". Well that caused a lot of pain for me and the pain of that name was worse than the pleasure of the eating and drinking I was engaging in. I went on a two week water fast ( I don't recommend that but I was a little extreme at the time) and I broke my habit of overeating. I then applied for and got a job as a fitness instructor at Jack la Lanne and I got into the best shape of my life.
I would later learn that the two key motivators in our lives are pain or pleasure and usually one of them is dominant in the decisions we make. I decided that the pain of being overweight outweighed the pleasure of overeating so I remain committed all my life to taking Acton daily to maintain my state of fitness and health.
I developed a philosophy and strategy of DI (tm) or Daily Improvement. I apply this to my exercise program. I always make an improvement of either adding more repetitions or adding more weight to each workout. I always raise the bar for my self. So in summary I offer the following:
Just Do It - Exercise
DI ( Daily Improvement)
Variety - Keep changing the exercise so you never get bored
Monitor - Keep an exercise journal so you can monitor the progress
No Excuses - Just Do it
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