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How My Hair Stylist finds time for Cuts and Every Day Exercise

Today I went to a new hair stylist. As you know, there is always a lot of social chitchat when you are having your hair cut and colored. This was no exception with my new friend Amy, who like me is passionate about every day exercise.

We have both recently decided to lose weight through starting a new healthy diet and a more consistent exercise program. We have been working at this for roughly the same time and were interested in ‘what worked’ for each other.

Amy is overweight and she needs to lose around 20 pounds. As a mom with two teenage kids she has a busy schedule. She says that her first goal was to set and maintain a regular every day exercise routine.

Amy’s days start early and finish late. She is so determined to improve her body and her health however, that she has fitted her every day exercise program around her work. She says that the kick that losing weight gives her is really worth organizing daily work outs in her full schedule.

Amy convinced me of the importance of using portable monitors to gauge my heart rate the calories I burn. This will be additional information to the distance I walk recorded on my pedometer. My new heart monitor will be especially helpful as it will inform me of the level of cardiac fitness in my work outs.

To develop a normal heart rate of 70 beats per minute, you need to increase this to around 90-100 beats per minute. This elevates your heart rate sufficiently to increase you are your cardio- vascular fitness and helps you lose weight. Both of us were aiming for this as part of our every day exercise.

Amy says that she is keeping her program running regularly despite her full lifestyle because she is staying motivated. One of the keys to this for Amy is her ‘Fitness Friend’ who exercises with her. They both enjoy progress rewards as they reach goals along the path of their every day exercise and have a group of family and friends who actively support them.

To stay committed despite her busy schedule, Amy records all aspects of her improving body shape and form, the result of her every day exercise. This includes her weight loss as well as the improvements to her body shape around her stomach, hips and chest. Even when her weight loss slows, her body keeps changing and she has these details to prove it and spur her on.

She makes sure that these measurements are recorded at the right time of the day (first thing in the morning is best) and with sufficient time between each record to allow for progress that she wants to see! This means that she stays focused and feels encouraged even when some aspects of her progress slow down for a time.

So now, like busy Amy, I am using different instruments to objectively monitor the impact of my exercise. I regularly chart of all aspects of my progress, include suitable rewards for each goal I reach and I have others in my life who my encourage my every day exercise while I move towards a healthier body and happier life.

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