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Paul McKenna is Making me Exercise

Published by Diet Trials January 31st, 2006 in Inspiration, Week 4

Paul McKenna in last night’s show was focussing on increasing our exercise levels. During the diet I have felt myself get more motivated to exercise, even to the point of thinking about dusting off the exercise equipment that I bought a few years ago and never used. The exercise that you do during the day doesn’t have to be strenuous, just enough to make your body need extra energy and therefore speeding up your metabolism. Paul McKenna presents his show in such a good, down to earth way and doesn’t set goals for people that are unrealistic. The best exercise to do that is simple is just walking. Aslong as you increase your exercise to do more each day than you were doing before you started the diet the better it is. He suggested that a pedometer is a good way to analyse how much or little exercise that you do in your normal life. I know that for instance my wife does more exercise than me, just in the amount of times that she runs up and down the stairs after the kids.

I started today a new regime. At work I will go outside for a quick cigarette and normally stand around chatting to whoever is around. But today I thought that I would use this time to fit in some exercise. So instead of just stood smoking, I decided to walk and smoke, walking to the end of the car park and back. It’s not very far, just far enough to smoke a cigarrette, but it is about 200 strides for each trip. So yes, even though I am combining smoking with exercise which don’t really go hand in hand, I have done an extra 1000 strides so far today and this has increased my normal daily total.