Getting Started with Exercise and Physical Fitness
Exercise is fun for the young who are in good health. Physical fitness for them is easy and effortless. Becoming physically fit can be a difficult and punishing task when one is out of shape. The key to physical fitness for the out-of-shape individuals is to approach exercise and work-outs very gradually.
Physical Fitness Requires Time and Patience
To achieve fitness one must compensate with patience what he/she lacks in physical stamina. If one proceeds too quickly or too impatiently, then exercise can become “a cruel and an unusual punishment”. Chances of of failure would then rise. It takes time for the body to make the necessary physiological and biochemical adjustments that improve stamina, strength and endurance so that one can engage in prolonged and rigorous activities.
The drum-beat that “exercise is fun” can lead to discouragement when one discovers that exercise is hard work and that hard work is rarely fun. One can