‘I can’t be %#$*ed!’
Love/hate relationship with exercise?
Those exercise enemies got you good?
EXERCISE, can be your friend. And surprisingly, your enemy!
My grandma tells a story of me as a child at tennis lessons. I came back in to the tennis sheds after being out on the court for 5 minutes.
‘Oh it’s too hot out there and I don’t like getting sweaty’. I replied.
This was me up until I was in my 20s. Yep. I hated getting hot and sweaty, I hated exercise. Until I started to love it!
How did I start to love it you might ask? Keep reading!
As a child you may not have been exposed to exercise as much, or the adults around you had certain beliefs about exercise, or you didn’t recognise the importance or benefits of it.
Or perhaps now, with all the demands in our lives, the last thing we feel like doing is putting our body in more ’stress’, or tiring it out even more, when we are already exhausted.
Relate?
This is why it is so important to tune into our bodies first and foremost, but there comes a time where we need to put our health first, and say no to the couch, Netflix, cake or socials (even if its only for 15mins!) and say YES to us! Our health and well-being!
Trust me, from experience, exercise has changed my life and my mental and hormonal health!
Once you start you cant stop! Hello endorphins!
Here is HOW;
1. When you change how you look at something, what you look at changes: For me I started slowly with walking, then gym, then back into netball, then yoga, then into HIIT and weights, and now I do a combination depending on what I feel at the time.
So part a) to changing our outlook is choosing another empowering thought – instead of;
’15 mins won’t even do anything anyway’…
What can you think instead?
‘I am worthy’…
Switch your language and see what happens.
If this doesn’t work…
Try b) Schedule it in (only 15 mins!). Then use the 5 second rule. More on that here.
2. Choose your ‘poison’: Our hormones LOVE High intensity Interval Training (HIIT), Yoga (and/or walks) & Resistance training.
The don’t love: Marathon training/long runs and extreme body building.
These two things drive the body into survival (stress) mode. And as a busy ‘rushing’ woman, we don’t want more of that right?!
When and how will you start?
Make it small, and remember, it does matter!
It doesn’t need to be hours of your time for you to enhance your health.
Hugs,
Tara x
Ps… You can get your Happy Hormones Exercise Checklist as a FREE BONUS when you purchase the Healthy Hormones Webinar here.
