Pedometer Steps wants to ask you a question or two which are fundamental to successfully implementing pedometer steps as your lifestyle activity.
How do you think about your life? Where does your health and well being fit?
If exercising and perhaps modifying your diet is a new or unsuccessful life tactic, then perhaps you haven’t thought about how to make it practical in your life.
Anyone who has ample pleasurable activity in their lives already may be challenged by the requirement to change unless they substitute one pleasure for another i.e. make pedometer steps part of life’s pleasures.
Pedometer Steps is one way of fixing the importance of your actions into your mind with daily monitoring.
In many case studies of my own I am aware that doing exercise for the purpose of satisfying a medical direction or as a recovery phase, means that it is overlaid on your lifestyle. Say suddenly a dog is brought into the household and all the associated tasks and pleasures are unexpected and coped with rather than planned and formalized. There is a certain amount of immediate action to satisfy what is necessary with a jumble of understanding and misunderstanding unless you have another dog already, or have had sufficient experience of dog ownership to understand what’s required.
There is a demanding and unwanted intrusion which can’t be ignored but you wish it could be. Gradually there is a certain amount of rallying of the troops and some semblance of order, discipline and care is established. Over time as the pleasures associated with dog ownership come to the fore, then appropriate care is tailored to suit your environment.
Walking and activity for weight loss is a strategy that worked for me and many others. Using a pedometer enables you to make allowances for changes in your exercise throughout a period without abandoning the program of counting pedometer steps because you’ve got behind.
It pays off to be organized yet flexible. The same rules apply negotiating with yourself for pedometer steps as in negotiating a deal. The number of steps needed to meet a daily target can be offset over an extended period. So putting steps ‘in the bank’ will accrue ‘interest’.
Using your personal step bank you can provide options for eating and activity at any time. This inbuilt flexibility is the charm of pedometer steps. It provides an easy system to keep track and stay motivated. This is an ongoing program tailored for success.
Read my latest walking article here.
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While thinking about writing this post of Pedals & Pedometer Steps I re-read the latest edition of The New! Walker recently and it reminded me of the question I once heard someone ask: How did you handle the emotions of the sport?
What a great question. How do you handle the emotions involved when counting pedometer steps or walking for weight loss?
I love listening to sporting greats, and everyday sportsmen and women, because often I learn something valuable about the attitudes which are most helpful to develop when taking on a regimen or training which is pushing physical limits and emotional limits as well. These are my favorite mentors (unofficial mentoring from listening, reading or viewing) even though I am not attempting to succeed as a sports person. Perhaps it’s because they are usually in it for themselves, and then use their success as a catalyst for ‘giving back’ whether through foundations or simply helping out with community events, etc.
Why do I like that? I like the positive inspiration of someone wanting to be involved in something, good at something, or developing a talent or skill.
I also enjoy So You Think You Can Dance once the final twenty have been chosen and start watching from that point in the show.This is then a positive and uplifting opportunity to watch people who excel and see how they handle the ups and downs and physical stresses of doing this. These are great teachers, intentionally or unintentionally.
We can benefit enormously from these unofficial mentors-aspirational figures who inspire by being true to their desires.
The New! Walker makes the point that there are ways to have others involved in your pedometer steps and walking for weight loss program. In fact since this is a lifestyle change it is necessary to find easy ways to integrate others into the llfestyle which supports your continued weight loss.
But…
“This often means that they are not likely to be bosom buddies. They may not have the same politics or worldview. You may not immediately, or ever, want them as close friends. You want the benefit of a joint commitment which you are determined to keep.”
This is where handling the emotions is important. The less emotional investment in the relationships enables more easy commitment to the exercise program. At the same time we want to ensure that all our other relationship needs are also being met, but perhaps separately, at least at first.
A mentor can be simply someone who inspires you, helps or advises you, even if you are not in a personal relationship with them. Even those people who deny having had mentors, probably because of the definition they are using, had them. Simply hearing about the influences on their sporting or other life, reveals that someone has motivated them.
The Susan Boyle story (does anyone not know who Susan Boyle is?) from an unrelated field physically is a lesson in handling the emotions. Her main contribution for most though is as the role model for not giving up, whatever your background or age.
Suggestion: can you name your inspirations for walking and counting pedometer steps?
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