To get started with fitness, start
by getting through these basic first steps.
1.
Meet with your doctor to talk about your overall
health. Ask him for measurements of your
blood pressure, your heart rate as well as any other important factors he may
be interested in you improving.
Determine that you are healthy enough physically to begin improving
through diet and exercise.
2.
Get your weight.
Do this at home on a well programmed scale, not at your doctor’s
office. Do it first thing in the morning
after you’ve gone to the bathroom but before you have eaten. Do it the same time and same way every time
you weigh yourself.
3.
Calculate your BMI. You need this to see just how unhealthy you
are currently. It’s going to come down
and that will be quite rewarding!
4.
Measure your waist. Stand up straight. Pull up your shirt, suck in your gut and
measure at your belly button all the way around using a tape measure. This will be your indication of your weight
loss and health improvement.
5.
Set your goals.
Determine what’s important for you to maintain, to improve on, and to
work on first. Write them down and post
them in several locations in your home.
Now that you have this done, you
can begin to improve your health. We’ll
help you throughout the process!
Its Not Only For Weight Loss
Although many people start looking
into fitness because they want to lose weight, fitness is not just about weight
loss. By understanding where you stand
on these factors above, you can work to improve your overall wellness and
increase your lifespan as well as the quality of life that you are currently
living.
If you don’t think that you need to
lose weight, that’s great! You are one
step closer to being healthy. But,
that’s not to say that you don’t have health problems beyond that level. Many people are still at risk for high blood
pressure, high cholesterol as well as other concerns even though they aren’t
technically overweight. Therefore, you
need to take into consideration the fact that overall health is in fact
important to improve.
Throughout this book, we’ll point
you in the direction of improving your overall health. For many that will mean losing weight. For others, that will mean improving other
qualities of your life. There’s much to
learn and improve on for most of us.
What You Will Learn
So, what will you learn through
this book?
·
Improving your body fitness
·
Improving your diet fitness
·
Improving your mind fitness
·
Improving your lifestyle fitness
Each of these aspects is quite
important. While your body must be
maintained as much as possible for health, it doesn’t do much good if you don’t
eat the right foods. Losing weight, for
example, isn’t enough if you aren’t eating the right foods even if you are
losing weight.
With your mind fitness, we mean
making sure you are emotionally and mentally fit. That means insuring that your overall life is
healthy in regards to the life that you lead. Emotional stability is critical
to overall health.
With lifestyle fitness, the goal is
to improve your stress level. It has
been shown that those that are under a lot of stress are often the most at risk
for health problems due to the stress.
Throughout each of these aspects,
we’ll teach you how to improve your life through easy, and even fun, ways. Because each plays a role in your overall
health, we’ll tackle what the healthy standard is, help you to understand where
you are and then help you to get to the goals that you have.
Since your body is likely to be
your largest factor impacting your life, we will start there. Remember, each aspect is just as important as
the next, though.
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