Stop Working Out

No gym membership required

"Work out."  A phrase that has a connotation of nothing that could possibly be fun.  Who wants to work during their free time?  No wonder so many people can't motivate to get fit and healthy when it is viewed as a painful chore. 

Health should not be work.  In reality, living with vitality means a playful, exciting, and motivating existence.  Children run, climb, throw, crawl, and roll around like boundless bundles of energy for hours - all with smiles on their faces. They enjoy themselves.  They desire movement.

I prefer to say train or condition.  These imply a motivating goal energizes me and keeps me going.  Even if my training tests my limits, wears me down, or doesn't progress exactly as planned, I am having fun. Accomplishing an extremely difficult task that takes all the strength and endurance I can muster doesn't have to be work. 

Are we having fun yet?

There are so many fun ways to move your body that build strength, endurance, energy, and balance.  Find the way to move that makes you happy.  If possible, move outside (easy for me to say, I live in Hawaii).
Go at it alone or with a group.  Take a class, join a sport, swim, polka dance, whatever.  Just move in a way that is enjoyable.  

No Pain No Gain!!!  Well, I don't know about you, but I tend to shy away from things that cause me pain.  It's instinctual.  Working out until it's painful is a good way to get injured in my experience - and injury inhibits movement.

Play Hard,
Keith