One of the purposes of personal training is that it gives those who normally find it difficult to be motivated to exercise, the relevant encouragement and information they need to go out there and work hard. In the build up to the festive period, people appear to not want to bother exercising at the same rate they do normally. I am guessing the main reason for this is that they belief there is no point. Indeed what is the point if all you are going to do is abuse your body through the excesses of drinking and eating far more than you normally would? Basically it all comes down to being a matter of damage limitation. Few people will actually abuse themselves none stop for the full twelve days of Christmas, but will have bad days by their normal standards. To help minimise these bad days, many may see exercise as a waste of time. If I am eating bad and drinking too much, I may as well wait until after Christmas to treat myself with some respect! The fact of the matter is that Christmas and any other time of excess is perhaps the time where we need to exercise the most in order to give our bodies a better chance of recovery come the New Year. However when 2011 is with us, you can be sure that the gym’s will be full, albeit for a couple of weeks and there will be many mutterings about new years resolutions etc. I will lose that spare tyre this year! The sad fact is that the overwhelming majority will not, because as a society balance does not seem to be an option. We are either extremely unhealthy or extremely healthy, perhaps neither of which is actually that good. So don’t wait for New Year, get exercising now and reduce the damage that will be done this Christmas. Jamie Leighton http://www.living-fit.co.uk/
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