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Getting moving (or…turning that dial)
Getting into the habit of exercising can be a daunting task, especially when you’ve been out of it for a while, or when the stresses of life seem to eat up all the exercise time that had been so abundant earlier in life.
A shoulder and neck injury I suffered 4 weeks ago due to working out without warming up has kept me in a rather “less than active-mode” over the last few weeks, despite some bike rides and yoga classes. So today, with a morning of time off, I decided to go for a ride and put in a P90X DVD (CardioX). Tony Horton tells us “Everyday just push play”, and he’s right. the hardest part of exercise is often just starting it; getting off the couch or away from your desk to do something. Admittedly my motivation during the first 20 minutes was on the low-end, but then I could feel things start to turn around, and my body started to feel really good from the exercise. It’s strange that it seems to take so much energy to start an exercise routine, yet once we’re into it we have more energy and motivation to exercise more. In fact, it seems like we’ve got to turn a big stone dial like (an ox or) Ben on lost turning the wheel to move the island in order to change our setting from “lazy” to active”.
That’s why I work with my patients to start with simple steps to start the habit of exercise and movement again. It often doesn’t matter WHAT you do, but rather THAT you do something.