HEALTH Prep #4 - Exercise Routine

This is a must before we start working together. You have to find the initiative to get this going. There are some easy ways to work into this but if you aren't exercising at all before coming to me for health and wellness then you aren't serious. I'm not pulling any punches here.

Example: One of the young ladies I talked to had a pacemaker, plenty of health problems, and really down on herself and really didn't want to get moving. Well in order to work with me she needed to exercise. So she finally worked up the nerve to get moving. She started with a 7-Minute Workout app.

PHONE APPS TO GET MOVING: There are 101+ apps in both app stores that give these "Seven-Minute Workouts" away for free and those on the top do wonders for the body. They are so great my kids do them with me in the morning on days I can't work out. I have four kids and three of them will do this in our workout room, started in our music room before I built our workout room. These apps give you a choice of work out for almost any body part: butt, back, legs, abs, full-body, etc. They are even themed if you like: Army, Marine, Zombies, and there is probably a princess one as well. If there isn't then please start one, you'll make millions. Do one 7-minute workout or put it on a loop to play it 5 times Whatever you have time to do. If you want something easy and fast then get one of these apps.

Make exercising one of the first things you do each morning to wake yourself up. Don't grab the coffee or the energy drink, get out and do something right away to get pumped up. You can do this as well at night but my recommendation the mornings to get your metabolism jazzed, your blood flowing, and your mind prime for the day. HINT: I blast energy producing music and that gets me really primed for the day and a workout.

WHERE: Find a place you can do it without many distractions that you can make your routine area. The worse thing you can do is move it each time.

WHEN: You may want to think about going to bed earlier and waking up earlier, even 30 minutes. Wake up and do this before everyone else wakes up is what I do. If you can't do that right now, wake up and do them with your distraction: spouse or kids. Bringing others into the routine makes it harder for you to back out and motivates you to keep going.

ACTION ITEMS:

1) Start exercising for at least 7-minutes a day and do it consistently for at least a week. This will show that you are serious about your health and wellness and that will prime you to be successful at everything you do. Again, BE CONSISTENT.

2) Practice consistency in your routine, life gets easier when you are intentional and consistent.