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Some of you may have heard of this statement: “If you
could put the benefits of exercise in a pill, it would be
the single most prescribed medication in the world.”
All of us probably wish that this were true, especially since
our time is a precious commodity. Our busy and fast-paced
world forces us to search for the most time-efficient ways
of completing our tasks. The task of exercise should be no
different. Maximum results from exercise can be achieved with
a minimum time commitment.
We often hear the phrase; “more is better”. After
hearing this, we need to ask, “more of what?”
Many of us desire to have more money, more material things,
more peace and more free time. However, when it comes to proper
exercise--Less is More. How much exercise
does your body require to maximally improve its fitness level?
Have you ever thought about trying to discover how little
exercise your body requires for optimal results instead of
how much it can withstand? People who are unfamiliar with
proper exercise training principles find it difficult to understand
that to achieve the most productive results, exercise must
be brief and infrequent.
Contrary to popular belief, the more effective that you can
make your exercise program, the less exercise your body requires.
How can we make our exercise program more effective? First
of all we need to understand what exercise can and cannot
do. Exercise does not directly produce any physical improvements
within your body. It merely acts as a stimulus that causes
the body to produce the improvements. People, who fail to
recognize this distinction, and believe that the very act
of performing exercise produces improvements in their body,
naturally assume that more exercise equals a greater degree
of improvement. Our bodies have no idea how much weight it
is lifting, how many repetitions it is performing, how far
it is biking or how fast it is walking. However, your body
clearly knows the amount of time that it is exposed to the
stimulus of exercise.
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