Have exercise lost its pleasure?
So many times I have clients complaining to me that the Personal
Trainer they have been training with is pushing them too hard and they feel
stressed about keeping up with all the exercises they have to do.
I think we now more than ever have access to charity runs,
marathons, triathlons, adventure trekking and runs, mountain biking – you name
it and it’s available for us to join. It is great that we can set a goal and
have something to train for and get a ‘high’ from achieving it.
We also have apps that tell us when to train, what to train, how
fast, on what intensity, and what to eat to keep us on track and motivated.
My concern though is that in our already stressed lifestyles, this
put another stress factor to our lives and maybe even put some people off
exercising.
Where has the pleasure of a 5 km run in a moderate pace, enjoying
nature and the feeling of moving the body gone? I’m a Personal Trainer and off
course I sometimes put pressure on my clients to keep up their exercises, but
I’m promoting exercise for health and pleasure. I enjoy my training, it can be
weights, a run, a step class, yoga, body balance anything that gets the heart
pumping and moves my body.
Our government is doing everything they can to educate people
about the health benefits from a fit and active body, but at the other end we
have TV-shows like Biggest Loser where exercising and eating healthy is all
about winning. The normal person who lives a normal life to run can’t exercise
like that, and then we get to the comment that scares me – “There is no way I
can do all that, so why do anything?”
Maybe we should go back to the good old morning gymnastics, arms
stretching up, a push up, a few jumps and an enjoyable run in the forest.
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