Success breeds success. The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. Although these adages are cliche, they are very true. So I'm going to build briefly on those thoughts rather than give you a prescription of various strength and endurance building exercises and muscle building and fat loss diets.
Even if you have only five minutes a day, do something. A couple of sets of strength building exercises, a few calisthenics or a short jog or bike ride. The fact that you actually did something will activate the reward system in your brain making you more likely to do something tomorrow. As you get that reward day after day, you'll also start to see progress in the amount of weight you lift, the speed that you run, the miles that you bike and the feelings of accomplishment and reward will grow.
Likewise for making one small improvement in you diet, like drinking a glass of water instead of one of your cans of coke. Do that for a few days, then drop a second can of coke. Keep making small improvements as your motivation and sense of reward increases.
Stay consistent and make small improvements. What you can do in a five or ten year period, by making daily and weekly micro-improvements will astound you. Avoid trying to do too much at once. The body and brain do not like abrupt or massive change and you will ultimately stop.
Leverage your brain chemistry to work harder and harder and eat better and better, over time. Soon you'll find that where you once had only five minutes a day, you're now making room for an hour a day and you progress is going through the roof.
Don't get overly complicated. Learn about diet and exercise as you go. And as the great Winston Churchill once said, "never, never, never, never give up."
Even if you have only five minutes a day, do something. A couple of sets of strength building exercises, a few calisthenics or a short jog or bike ride. The fact that you actually did something will activate the reward system in your brain making you more likely to do something tomorrow. As you get that reward day after day, you'll also start to see progress in the amount of weight you lift, the speed that you run, the miles that you bike and the feelings of accomplishment and reward will grow.
Likewise for making one small improvement in you diet, like drinking a glass of water instead of one of your cans of coke. Do that for a few days, then drop a second can of coke. Keep making small improvements as your motivation and sense of reward increases.
Stay consistent and make small improvements. What you can do in a five or ten year period, by making daily and weekly micro-improvements will astound you. Avoid trying to do too much at once. The body and brain do not like abrupt or massive change and you will ultimately stop.
Leverage your brain chemistry to work harder and harder and eat better and better, over time. Soon you'll find that where you once had only five minutes a day, you're now making room for an hour a day and you progress is going through the roof.
Don't get overly complicated. Learn about diet and exercise as you go. And as the great Winston Churchill once said, "never, never, never, never give up."
