Worst 5 Fitness
Habits of All Time
What a Waste of Time and Effort!
Fitness Top 5 - October 29th, 2009
By: Jason Spencer, ACSM-CPT, CSCS -
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5. Lack of Respect for the Science of Fitness
This bad habit is the most interesting because most are not consciously aware of
it.
It is not as if we do it purposely, but still it is probably a greater obstacle
to our health success than any of the others.
It is the reason for the other 4 of the worst 5 fitness habits of all time as
well as the reason behind that we undervalue certain aspects of our health and
fitness.
It is the reason for all of this because if we don’t accept fitness as a
science, we are ignorant as to just how involved a process it is.
It takes structure, organization, timing, and manipulation of a large variety of
variables to be done the right way. Once this fact is understood, it can be so
much easier to allow ourselves the patience and work ethic necessary to succeed.
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4. Being Way too Impatient
 You
are setting yourself up for failure if you go into your fitness endeavors with a
quick and easy mentality.
Wherever it is that you want to get to with your health and fitness, will not
be seen quickly and most definitely not easily.
The body is too complicated, and the path to fitness involves too many
avenues for you to just be able to snap your fingers and get what you want.
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3. Keeping it Comfortable
This is highly related to #2 on the list. You can’t be
afraid to step outside your comfort zone and push yourself.
Don’t run away from the challenge of fitness, because a
CHALLENGE is exactly what it has to be.
There is no other way around it. To improve your health and
fitness there needs to be a stimulus presented consistently to your body that it
isn’t used to.
That is difficult for it. Your body will naturally attempt
to adjust to the activity, and in doing that it has no choice but to improve..
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2. Going through "The Motions"
Looking like you’re doing is not the same as doing, and quite frankly, your body
is not going to be fooled. Your body will improve if you MAKE it improve.
Otherwise, you are only fooling yourself.
Let’s stop being satisfied just with the fact that we’ve “done something".
Stop allowing yourself to just be happy that you have that gym membership or
telling yourself “good job” just because you went to the gym and sat on a few
machines.
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1. Taking the Easy Way Out
Don’t get me wrong. Your diet and eating habits are hugely important in terms
of successful fat loss, muscle tone, energy, cardiovascular health, et cetera,
but as a compliment to physical activity.
The reason being, is that even if you are perfect in the way you eat and
adopt the best habits, you are still doing very little to improve those fitness
aspects I just mentioned. Your nutritional habits are very important in
influencing and changing those health characteristics, but they aren’t the
initial factor that DICTATES those characteristics.
What does that is strength and cardiovascular exercise. Physically training
is what revs up your metabolism to where it needs to be for you to burn all that
fat. Cardiovascular activity and weight training are what maximize the function
of your system and provide you with the appropriate muscle tone needed to
sustain your metabolism and fat burning power.
Overestimating the effectiveness of your diet habits is the easy thing to do
because it requires very little physical effort to eat well. Just simply eating
well on its own may prevent weight gain and cause a minimal amount of early
weight loss, but what it also does is allow your metabolism to just adjust
itself to that particular habit without needing to improve.
METABOLISM and how it is controlled through exercise should be the source of
attack. How can you expect to improve the way the car works without improving
its engine?
Worst 5 Fitness Habits of All Time Author:
By Jason Spencer, ACSM-CPT, CSCS
JasonSpencer.AskTheTrainer.com
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