Originally Posted by
Andy_K
This is actually one of the things that got me started biking to work. I had at various times tried the gym routine, and I generally didn't stick with it for more than a few months at any given stretch. Then sometime in 2007 my company was pushing this health program where they'd give us a $25 gift card to meet with a health coach a few times. My health coach told me that the only way anyone succeeds with an exercise program is if they actually enjoy the exercise program.
Patients will ask about exercise programs at times and some get hung up on finding the perfect program and end up with analysis paralysis. I tell them find something you like to do, can do easily and can do without hurting yourself and you'll be better off than most. The ones that do those things are usually healthier and happier, especially when they learn what they can and can't do without hurting themselves.
And after 40 we all have to exercise and watch what we eat to be healthy.