Summer is Coming. What’s Your Exercuse?

Well, it won’t be long now. Pretty soon it will be time to go to the beach or the pool clad in your favorite bathing suit. Just for fun, when nobody else is home, get in your bathing suit and take a good long look in a full length mirror. You can stop moaning, groaning, screaming and crying now. Take heart. There is still time to get that bod back in shape. But you know something? How you look isn’t all that important…except for your ego.

Your mind, body and spirit all need exercise. Sure, it’s going to be great to strut down the beach with that perfect buff body in a couple of months. (Take note that I am projecting positive energy your way…I know you can do it!) Yes, looking good is a great motivator, but what’s going on under the skin is infinitely more important to your quality of life. Exercise needs to be part of your lifestyle…as natural as breathing. So why isn’t it already? That’s simple. You have a really good reason for not exercising, don’t you? It’s called an Exercuse.

Here’s a few examples:
a)I don’t have time. [A rift in the time-space continuum has left me with less hours in a day than everyone else on the planet.]
b)I have more important things to do.[ My favorite rerun of Lost is on again.]
c)I don’t need to exercise. [Yes, I am immortal!]

Okay, enough exercuses! Set aside 20 minutes a day to walk, bike or do some floor exercises. Workout with a friend. It’s a great way to keep each other motivated. Cut back on the carbs, eat less at night and you will drop a few inches between now and those lazy days of summer!

— Richard Fink, DC, FIAMA

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