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Escape From Inertia: Strategies to Overcome Resistance to Start Exercising

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C’mon, you’ve probably got lots of good reasons. Because your ankle still hurts from its sprain four months ago. Because you work 50 hours a week, minimum. Because of those horrible memories of high school gym class. Because nobody else at the gym seems to carry 20 extra pounds. Because you have nothing to wear. Because you have a new baby and you’re wiped. Because, when you do exercise, you leave the gym feeling sore, exhausted and defeated. Because you simply don’t want to. Nearly all of us — even those reading this article while pedaling away on the elliptical machine — could fill in that blank at some point in our lives, if not on most days. But how we handle our excuses for not exercising makes a big difference: While some regularly find ways to overcome them, others accept them as unfortunate facts of life. When we fall into the latter trap on a regular basis, we come face to face with what’s known as “exercise resistance,” a condition that prevents us from maintaining a healthy

I am taking several energy zapping prescription meds for heart and metabolic disease. We cannot change these meds. I have always been morbidly obese which is culminating in the medical conditions “they’ve always said would come.” My muscle cells are so fatigued when I try to walk or ride a recumbent bike, I feel like I already ran a marathon or at least what I can imagine that would feel like. I see your list of excuses and personally agree wholeheartedly with most but I just cannot move forward. The more I dwell on the whys, the worse I feel. I don’t even have a questi

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