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Learn how to make exercise an important part of your life
The other day, I met with two very different personal training clients. *John is a successful financial planner with a wife and two teenagers. He works 10 hours a day while still trying to juggle family and social obligations. His problem? He has a hard time scheduling and following through with his workouts. The other client, *Suzanne, owns her own construction business with her husband. She has an active, busy child to take care of, as well as several rambunctious pets. She works up to 14 hours a day, but every morning she goes into her workout room, shuts the door and exercises... no interruptions allowed. She considers exercise as necessary as eating and breathing.

So, why does John struggle to exercise while Suzanne can't live without it? One reason? Priorities. For Suzanne, exercise is necessary for making her day better. For John, exercise is just another obligation. Is exercise really a priority for you or do you wish it could be? Figuring out what you want and why you want it is the first step in making health and fitness your priority.

What are Your Priorities?

One thing us humans do is say one thing while doing another. Never is this more apparent than when it comes to exercise. Think of how many times you've heard someone say (or heard yourself say), "I really want to lose weight...I should start exercising." But, if that person really wanted to lose weight, wouldn't he be doing everything he could to make it happen, including exercising? If that sounds familiar, what happens between what you say you want and what you actually do? It usually comes down to your priorities.

One reason many of us talk the talk without walking the walk is unrealistic expectations. When you expect one thing and get something entirely different, you wonder why you bother at all and there are few things in life that we have such a distorted view of what it should be doing for us than exercise. We expect:

    * To lose weight quickly. Many people expect to see results after just a few weeks of exercise, even though that isn't realistic for most of us.
    * Exercise to be temporary. We think we can exercise for a few weeks or months, quit and it will somehow stick.
    * Exercise to change our bodies the way we want. Despite the fact that most of us have clear genetic tendencies as to where we store fat, we still think that doing certain exercises will reduce problem areas.
    * To see results on our timetable, not our body's. Weight loss involves many factors, some beyond our control. Once you know you're burning more calories than you're eating, your body responds in it's own time.
    * To be motivated every day. You won't always feel like exercising.. .it's up to you to keep yourself motivated using whatever tools, goals and resources at your disposal.
    * Exercise to be easy. Changing your body takes hard work on a consistent basis. It means overloading your body so it can adapt by becoming stronger and slimmer. Low-intensity workouts are great for health, but won't be as effective for fat loss.

Being unrealistic about what to expect from exercise is just one way we sabotage ourselves, sending exercise down to the bottom of our to-do lists. You can change that by setting realistic goals and taking action to make exercise more important for you. Start with this quiz, Is Exercise a Priority in Your Life? and then learn more about what you can to do taking charge of your priorities.

Making exercise a part of your life starts with making it important to you. Think back to other times in your life where you worked hard for something you wanted. Have you ever tried to find a job, changed careers, made a commitment to start a family, quit smoking? Whatever you did to achieve those past goals is what you need now to achieve your fitness goals. Exercise is like any other commitment.. .you need a plan for how to get where you want to be:

Decide what you want. Your first step is to set a goal. Make it reasonable and reachable and lay out all the steps you need to take to reach that goal.
Set short-term goals. You have your long-term goal...perhaps to lose weight or get stronger. Now you need to set smaller goals to help you get there (e.g., I'll jog 3 times this week and eat fruit before each meal.)
Make the commitment.Whatever your short-term goals are, decide you'll follow through no matter what. Make it a rule that you can't skip a workout without at least getting through the warm up. Commit 100% and let nothing stand in your way.
Hold yourself accountable. Keep an exercise calendar or journal to track your workouts, leave yourself reminders of your goal or work with a buddy to keep yourself on track.
Track your progress. Take time at the end of each week to see how you did. Make a note of your successes and failures and determine how you can make next week even better.
Reward yourself. Reward yourself for everything you achieve, no matter how small. If you got your walk in today even though you were tired, reward yourself with a 10-minute break doing something you love. If you got in all your weekly workouts, buy yourself that new CD you've been wanting. Give yourself credit for every step you accomplish, big and small.
Work for yourself and your future. Exercise can help you lose weight but, in the long run, you'll need more tangible things to hold onto while you wait for the physical results. Remember that exercise can help keep you healthy and strong. It can make your life better and your future brighter as well. Keep track of how exercise makes you feel, not just how your body looks.

In the end, it's up to you to decide how important exercise really is to you. If you find your actions don't match your words, it's time to figure out what you really want for yourself. Then, it's time to go for it!

Take Charge of Your Priorities