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Date Posted: 08:56:35 06/17/02 Mon
Author: Sherry
Subject: Excercise
In reply to: Sherry 's message, "Today" on 00:46:01 06/17/02 Mon

I agree with you, excercise can become boring. I challenge myself to more reps, or more weight per rep. I vary it by getting new and different excercise equipment or videos. I buy different excercise equipment to add to my collection.

I bought a new magazine called Muscle and Fitness HERS which has some routines in it that I can do at home which will change my workout, vary it.

In general I read that if you do the same workout day after day, not only does your mind become bored with it, but your body does too, and you don't get as much benefit after awhile. By adding weight, or adding reps or adding sets, you vary it enough that your body has to adjust to those variations. After it adjusts, and the excercise becomes too easy, you adjust it again to continue challenging yourself.

You can tell when it is weight training that you are doing that your body is finding your old routine to be too easy, and it is time to move up. I guess that is what I really like about weights, you can tell that you have become stronger and it is no longer "too hard." You feel like you have made progress, because you HAVE built the muscle and what was formerly impossible now has become too easy.

I've devoted a whole section of my house to excercise equipment. Granted it is only a room in the basement, but I have a weight machine, a healthrider, a free weight bench and free weights. I have a TV down there and video player with several excercise videos. Plus two old flat mattresses to use as pads for floor work. I just bought a dumbell bar to add small weights to, and an excercise ball.

I think I have got a lot to keep me from getting bored for a long time. There is one piece of equipment I want that I saw at "Play it Again Sports" the other day, an Ab crunch machine. It is for use with free weights, but I have enough of those that it should work well. It is basically a chair that you sit on and hook your feet under a pad, reach above your head and pull a bar over your head using your stomach muscles. Behind the bar is a place to add weights to make the resistance greater.

I don't do much "aerobic" type excercise because I find it boring, and I can't really measure my progress that way. I much prefer muscle building weight lifting. But I was going for walks awhile back as my form of excercise. When I did that, I bought a pedometer to measure how many miles I had walked.

It is like losing weight. You measure your progress by the scale and by your clothing and measurements. With excercise in order to keep it interesting you have to have some way to measure your progress. Unless you can actually see that it is working, sure you give up and find it boring.

But when you feel yourself getting stronger, able to lift more weight or lift for longer periods of time without resting in between, it encourages you to improve more and more.

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