Get fit with Chris: Getting started

Dec 18 2008 By Chris Lee

Have you noticed how these days you can get out of breath just climbing a flight of stairs? Or maybe your waistline has spread and your clothes feel too tight. Perhaps you’ve already crept up to the next size?

We have all been faced with the realisation at some point in our lives that we need to start exercising because our lifestyle has become too sedentary and the nutritional balance of our diet has slipped in favour of convenience and an overloading of fat and sugar.

So well done if you have made the conscious decision that things need to change. What do you do next?

Too many people go a little extreme, join a gym, slip on an old pair of trainers from the cupboard and hit the treadmill. The next day they are so sore it hurts to breathe, but the gym membership has been paid now so it’s back to the treadmill and weights. Pretty soon they feel like they should be on their way to A&E… and in some cases a trip to the hospital is necessary.

It just becomes too painful and too much effort ,so they decide it’s easier and less painful to go back to the old lazy lifestyle until the next time they decide to try and get fit.

It really doesn’t have to be like this, to start with all you need to do is write down your daily routine and try to include some of the following guidelines to become more active: