The Body Bank

I was talking to a personal trainer freind of mine... she was bouncing off some ideas about a talk that she was going to give that evening. I think she came up with a pretty good analogy about exericse and calories. She calls it The Body Bank.

It goes like this, for every training session you do, every time you eat some healthy food, and the incidental exercise you do each day you are putting money(spent calories credit) in your own personal body bank.

Some deposits are small, such as eating an apple, while some are much bigger like an intense workout.

When you eat something that isn’t ideal, or when you miss that training session that you were supposed to do, you are making a withdrawal.

We need to ensure that our bodies are a savings account where there is plenty of "money" saved and not the credit card that is maxed to the limit!

You will not lose the weight if you are constantly withdrawing from an account with non existent funds. You need to earn these saving points for your treat.

For example if you walk 10 minutes to the train station each day you have accumulated 50 minutes a week. When you also do it on the way home, it becomes 100 minutes of walking a week.

What about when you get off a stop earlier? That extra 5 minutes walk becomes and additional 50 minutes when you do it at the start and end of your day. You now have 2½ hours of incidental exercise every week!

Even if you drive to work, the same can apply. Swap the walk each side of your working day for a walk up the stairs at work, or walk to the coffee shop up the road. You can even park your car further from your office.

It all adds up.

When you combine this with a regular exercise routine, you are now on your way to achieving your goals! Stay focused on how you want to feel in the coming months. Nothing tastes as good as the feeling you get when you achieve something great!

Get to it Today NOT Tomorrow!

Til next time....