Who would argue that that exercise makes you healthier? This seems obvious, especially if you live with chronic illness. So, too, there aren’t many who would say that smoking is not harmful to your health (other than tobacco executives)?
Yet, most smokers say that they’ve tried to stop but can’t. And I’ve heard many people tell me that they wish they exercised but they don’t. It seems to be just as hard to delete a bad habit as it is add a positive one into our life.
Why is this? I have a hunch that most people have a hard time seeing how their actions impact what happens to them.
If you’re wondering whether there’s truth in the value of exercise, there is solid research to support this:
- A recent study shows that Tai Chi can help the pain of Fibromyalgia
- Exercise has been shown to reduce the risk of cancer.
- Regular exercise has been shown to decrease the effects of chronic illness.
- Exercise can improve mood and reduce depression.
Perhaps the barrier for you is finding the time to exercise, particularly if you hold a job . And if chronic pain or fatigue wears you out, it’s easy to push everything else aside.
Work Out While You Work” offers 10 ideas for exercising at your job.
You know the platitude: where there’ s a will, there can be a way! Have you been thinking about getting back to an exercise program? Maybe for the past few months… or even the past year. Why not start today?
And, if you’ve been successful in managing to work and exercise, what’s worked for you?
Ricky Buchanan says
Love the post title!!
I’ve been successfully modifying some habits recently with HealthMonth.com – it turns habit changing into a game/competition with yourself and I’ve found it REALLY helpful, even if you’re a free user. I’ve been using it free this month but I plan to pay from next month on so I can enter more than three things to track.
With chronic illness many of their things don’t exactly fit me, but it lets you input your own personalised goals as well as put in your own numbers. For example it suggests “30 minutes” as a default amount of exercise if you add ‘exercise’ as a goal, but I can change it to 5 minutes so it fits my abilities!
I’m just a happy user – no financial interests or anything. But highly recommended 🙂
r
James Kildare says
is difficult to have to endure it, but that’s what we lived, just have to have strength and faith that you will achieve your purposes and that the pain will pass and that painkillers such as Vicodin, hydrocodone, norco but not only will help you heal, so do not follow these tips to buy online without a prescription and is not good to buy products that are dangerous.
Thanks for letting us express our ideas and learn about the different feelings for people who suffer from this disease.
James Kildare
Findrxonline
Rosalind says
Thanks, Ricky, for that information about HealthMonth.com! Very useful.
Mary says
Balancing exercise and work is hard! What worked for me is the old advice to do it with friends. I am much better if I have an activity or a class scheduled with friends which is on my calendar. I will usually make the class no matter how busy/stressed I am. If I am trying to exercise on my own, I am much more likely to put it off because I am too tired, or have a deadline to meet and want to focus on work, or whatever.
The challenging thing about doing it with friends, though, is difference in physical ability between me and healthy people in my age group (mid-30ies). I had to be creative about it. For example, I have friends who love walking, but they typically take 2-3 hour walks on weekends. My limit is 30 minutes, and usually it doesn’t work well if I or the other person need to come from far away. I got around it by finding a couple of colleagues who were happy to take 20-30 minute lunchtime walks at work. In addition, I found a Pilates class where the teaches is very good at modifying exercises and letting everyone work at their level of ability. So I stay at the lowest possible level and my fit friends who want to challenge themselves put up the intensity. We then encourage each other when we are able to move levels or otherwise improve.