Irresistible Fitness Tips For A Healthy Lifestyle, Even If You HATE Exercise (Achievable Fitness for Everyone Book 3)

Why Are So Many People Alienated From The Very Notion Of Exercise, Even When They Know They Need To Get Fit?

Despite the entire Western World being tormented by the health problems associated with an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, only one in five of us ever goes to the gym.

No doubt some prefer to get fit at home or outdoors, but that still leaves a large number of people who never get involved in any regular physical activity.

Why?

One reason might be that the rhetoric produced by the fitness industry, which talks of ‘pumping iron’ or ‘burning fat’, has completely alienated the very people who need exercise the most.

For the greatest number of people, working out in the gym or on the running track is a complete irrelevance. For them what is needed is simple advice about how to start moving around more.

So if you are worried that your existing lifestyle is damaging your health and wellbeing, but you HATE the ceaseless calls from the experts to 'build muscle', this book has been written with you in mind.

A Message To Those Who HATE The Very Thought Of Exercise – Don’t Do It!

The main theme of 'Irresistible Fitness Tips For a Healthy Lifestyle, Even If You HATE Exercise' is that something as simple as moving around more should be the starting point for those not used to exercising. Then, when being more physically active becomes a habit, it can be supplemented by a few short bursts of vigorous activity.

There are even some recent studies claiming that 3 minutes of vigorous activity PER WEEK is all that’s needed.

You may find this hard to believe and, of course, it's not as simple as that. But 3 minutes of intense activity is all it takes to maintain an adequate level of fitness, providing it’s accompanied by some regular, less demanding activity.

So exercises like ‘pumping iron’ and ‘building muscle’ completely miss the point.

The book is designed to help liberate you from your chair by showing you how to make your life more active. It advances an easy and fun approach that can produce all the health benefits you need to transform your life into a more active and fulfilling one, even if you've never seen the inside of a gym.

Topics covered include:

• Why Get Physically Active?
• The Basics
• How To Get Yourself Motivated
• Where To Get Fit?
• Some Useful Fitness Gear
• Aerobic Fitness
• What To Exercise
• Physical Activity, Fun And The Kids
• Carbohydrates, Diets And Calories
• How Much Is Enough?
• Can Three Minutes Of Exercise A Week Really Work?
• Recording Your Progress

Discover how normal daily physical activities can form a large part of your fitness routine, e.g. walking the dog or climbing the stairs.

There are sections on taking fitness to the next (enjoyable) level by including the kids, and the book shows you how to create lots of new opportunities for getting fit through play, sport and even holidays.

Finally, the conclusions of the latest research are assessed. They turn on its head much of what went before on the subjects of exercise and fitness. See how you can use them to put the finishing touches to your fitness activities, most of which are more of a lifestyle choice than a workout programme.

So put aside the rhetorical nonsense produced by the fitness industry and concentrate instead on sensible, achievable and, in the main, enjoyable ways of getting fit.

You'll find positive, life-enhancing strategies and techniques aimed at everyone not used to exercising, and especially the 80% who don't go to the gym.

The Achievable Fitness For Everyone Series:

'Irresistible Fitness Tips For A Healthy Lifestyle, Even If You HATE Exercise' is one book in the Achievable Fitness For Everyone series by Jonathan North.

Although not involved in the fitness industry, Jonathan has been a great enthusiast of simple ways to get active ever since he developed a back problem some years ago, which led him to discover the joys of walking. He now writes on general fitness issues.