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This month I didn’t get round to writing another fitness essay, so here are Ten Quick Fitness Tips:

  1. Move more – take the stairs, walk the dog, chase the kids (your own preferably), walk to the shops instead of taking the car, wear a pedometer, and hook yourself up to a printer on the other side of the floor.\
  2. Quit smoking – is makes you look older than you are and it will kill you….enough said.
  3. Cut the fat – remember, a potato chip is not a vegetable.
  4. Get your hand out of the lolly jar, and into the fruit bowl - Did you know an apple provides as much energy as a cup of coffee?
  5. Drink more water - Nothing quells the appetite like water, lots and lots of water. Keep a bottle on your desk.
  6. Educate yourself – the more you know about health and fitness the more motivate you will be, so buy some books or surf the net in addition to reading my tips
  7. Eat less, more often - Studies have shown that eating often helps accelerate the metabolism, so you burn more fat. When you consume 5-6 nutritious, smaller meals a day, the food is more efficiently absorbed and processed by your body than the typical Australian diet of three large meals a day.
  8. Don’t put off to tomorrow, what you can do today – if I hear another person say “I’m going to start my diet or exercise program next week”, I’m going to tell them to drop and give me twenty pushups...starting today. (Dear Mr Freud…I’m getting flashbacks to my Boot Camp Instructor days)
  9. Be realistic – don’t expect to be able to run a marathon if you haven’t trained in a while (or ever), and don’t start diets that require you to starve yourself. You are more likely to fall off the wagon if you set your goals too big, too early. Start off with smaller goals.
  10. Find a training partner or take up a team sport – you are more likely to sustain an exercise program if you have a training partner or team, as you will not want to let them down. Its been great to hear so many people are taking the stairs over the last few months! It will get easier I promise!

Til next month,

Chris

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