How-To Information for Modern Life
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.