How to Find the Right Exercise Program

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Are you the one at the pool with the towel oh-so-casually draped around your wideload hips? No one ever fell for that trick, clever though it is. Or what about the old I’m-just-backing-away-from-the-bed-because-I-just-don’t-feel-like-walking-forward-right-now move? 

Nice concept. Try again.

There’s never been any way around the whole exercise thing. It’s how you get a great body. But there is a way around yourself if you hate to exercise. You just have to find the right one suited to your individual personality.

Personality type

• Lazy
  Likes to veg in front of TV or movies. Lifting Cheeto to mouth is enough effort.
  Ideal: exercise built around walking, not leaping. Treadmill in front of health club TV.
• Competitive Viper
  Not happy unless opposition lies in pulp. Likes to high-five a lot. Admiration of others critical.
  Ideal: Team sports, or any individual sport where victory can be measured in a score. Soccer, volleyball, tennis, swimming, races of all kinds.
• Loner
  Unwilling to be watched while exerting.
  Ideal: Aerobic workout tapes used at home, an empty yoga studio.
• Self Starter
  Enjoys competing with self, rather than others. Likes to measure own progress.
  Ideal: Sports that have recognizable stages of proficiency. Yoga, kayaking, running.
• Guy Magnet
  Interested in meeting someone while exercising, as a side benefit.
  Ideal: Go dancing. Get thee to a co-ed gym. Or continue stripping as workout.

Restating the obvious

Body benefits include reduced PMS symptoms, improved cardiovascular function, mood lifting, sense of well being, building muscle that requires a higher caloric load (you can eat more), building bone density to help ward off osteoporosis, hopped up metabolism, blah, blah, blah. You know it. Now do it.

May 16th, 2007