Robert Harris - Ideas To Start Your Weight Loss

By Robert Harris

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I presume, since you downloaded this short report, that you are concerned about you fitness. Dont you just hate being unhealthy or unfit? You worry what others might be thinking of you, you lose self-confidence and you think that your physicality may be hindering you.

You might think that you are unattractive to the person whom you want to ask out on a date and you fret about what affects your eating habits are having on your health in the long term.

Wouldnt it be great if you could pick up a diet and begin exercise to lose the weight that you want to lose and then feel great about yourself? Your confidence would soar, as you feel better about yourself, knowing that you are doing something good for your body and then people would treat you better too.

In this short report you will learn how you can begin to diet and exercise effectively, in order to get rid of that unwanted weight and get the awesome body that you crave.

This is just the beginning, you dont have to reinvent the wheel, there are proven strategies to begin dieting and exercise in order to lose weight and, while every body is different, common sense prevails and there will be common things that will trigger weight loss.

Mindset/Goal Setting

Before starting on any form of exercise, one of the first things you should do is consider your mindset. You need motivation to get you to exercise, a goal. It might be simply trying to lose a certain amount of weight or trying to get into a particular item of clothing you think youll look good in.

And once you set your initial goal, youll need to keep setting them to keep yourself motivated, so you dont stagnate. In order to grow and better yourself, you need to keep setting goals as you grow.

When you create a goal, its not always necessary to keep it realistic, as long as it motivates you. If you are going to be realistic, youre automatically putting a barrier up and saying that you wont be able to do something. But, if you dont hit your targets, youll be motivated to keep working towards them.

Break Yourself in Gently

When you start out with your exercise, you should break yourself in gently to make it manageable. If you throw yourself into exercising a lot, very quickly, not only do you risk doing yourself an injury, you might overwhelm yourself and become disillusioned.

By breaking yourself in gently, you are making your fitness goals more achievable by building up to them over periods of time.

To use an example, if you wanted to run a marathon, you wouldnt leave the house one day and run 26 miles. Youd start running smaller distances, such as 2 or 5 miles, and then build up to the point where you could run 15 to 20 and then push on to run 26 miles.

Get Someone to Join You

Working out on your own can become a lot easier and fun when you have someone, a friend or family member, who is with you. Not only do you then become accountable to someone who will motivate you to push yourself when you feel like giving up, but also you can make it a competition between the 2 of you and this will push you to keep up the exercise plan.

Calories

When you start on an exercise plan, you need to make sure that the amount of calories that you are consuming is fewer than the ones you are burning off. It is not going to help you if you do all the exercise but then binge on junk foods and put the weight back on.

Get Enough Sleep

This is an often-overlooked part of beginning exercise. 8 hours is the recommended sleeping time. Sleeping is your rest, your time off. The times when you are resting your body are just as important as when you are training your body because you are giving the body time to recover and be able to do the exercise you have planned.

Water

Youve heard it a thousand times, but you need to be drinking enough water. Enough water means about 2 litres a day. Itll help you lose weight by flushing out the toxins in your body and help your digestive system while keeping you hydrated enough to do the exercise that you need to be doing.

If you dont do any exercise at the moment, a good start would be to go walking. Going for a daily walk is better than being sat around at home doing nothing, but you should quickly pick it up if you are serious about losing weight, by breaking into running. Obviously, if you feel fit enough to go straight into the running, youll be all the netter for it.

Running is an ideal exercise as it is a natural movement for the body and there are very few side effects. Try running distances and timing yourself so that you get a sense of progress and make a note of this progress. You will find it extremely motivating to keep trying to beat your time, as you get fitter, or increase the distance of your run.

Start by running or walking once a week, to get into the routine of it. Progress as you feel able to so that youre not risking burning yourself out but you are challenging yourself.

I always go running with my iPod, and listen to loud, heavy music, that motivates me. If your shoulders start to ache, itll be because your hunching them up as your run, if you loosen them up and roll them backwards, youll feel better. If you get a bottle with a handle, if you want to take water with you, I find them more comfortable to hold than the ones with the handles.

I often find it fun to run during rush hour as well and on a route with lots of traffic lights. I find it motivating to be chasing the cars that have to stop so often because of the traffic lights and the volume of traffic on the roads. Dont let rain put you off running, it can be very refreshing to run along with the rain coming down on you, it cools you off as you heat up from the running.

Swimming

Swimming can actually be better for you than running. The main reason being that, as you are in water, there is no impact on the joints that there is with running, you are just pushing yourself through the water and not impacting any surfaces.

Again, start small and build up. Aim for doing a certain number of lengths and, as you get fitter, either aim to do the lengths quicker or do more of them and always have a target in mind for when you reach the target you previously set.

It might be worth getting earplugs, if you are going to start swimming seriously, to reduce the risk of getting an ear infection.

Try going once a week to get your body used to the exercise and then build up as you get fitter, if you throw yourself into it, you may end up injuring or tiring yourself out really quickly and then you will be put off from doing it again.

Youll have to time your swimming sessions to the timetable of the pool that you use, I dont know about elsewhere, but in the UK, schools and swimming lessons are carried out in the pool at certain times of the day. So, if you turned up to swim at that time, you would be unable to.

If you have never done any swimming before, whatsoever, it may be worth your while signing up to some beginner swimming lessons. This will take away the risk of not swimming properly when you go and youll get some useful tips that you can use in the future. Also, it will give you confidence when you go swimming, that youre not going to be embarrassed by getting into the pool and not knowing what you are doing, or getting in other peoples way.