Stick with Exercise for a Lifetime: How to Enjoy Every Minute of It!

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Former Occidental College swimming and water polo coach Hopper (Healthcare Happily Ever After, 2007, etc.) offers a concise guide to developing an exercise program. Hopper notes that seven out of 10 Americans don't get enough exercise to be healthy. He provides readers with eight short chapters full of inspiring examples and steps to start a fitness regimen and, more importantly, stay with it. Written in lively, conversational prose, each chapter examines one aspect of Hopper's plan, starting with the one he proclaims most important: fun. The point is to find something effortless and enjoyable, such as dancing, body surfing, mountain or rock climbing, and gradually increase the amount of practice time and effort put into that activity until it becomes second nature. The guide strongly recommends finding a coach to explain how to do the activity safely and effectively, joining a team to provide participants with a support system and exercise buddies, protecting the scheduled time for activity, and seeking supplementary fitness activities that complement the preferred activity, such as taking weight training classes to improve stamina for dancing. Hopper even includes lists of responses to the typical reasons/excuses people use to get out of physical activity. Unfortunately, the author doesn't cover the reason many abandon their sport: injuries sustained while attempting something new or while trying to move from one level of fitness to another. A chapter on safe workouts, low-impact modifications to activities, and how to keep motivated while in recovery from an injury would have made the guide more complete. Simple, easy-to-follow steps detail how to develop a lasting workout regimen.

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ISBN-13: 9781467909938
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 6/27/2012
Pages: 130
Sales rank: 991,648
Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.31 (d)

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WilliamMellerMD

Posted July 23, 2012

How to Have Fun!!!!

This book answers a very important question for those millions of us who want to exercise but think we are not good at sports. We don't have to be!!! We can just set out to have fun doing something that we have always wanted to do or some activity that we never thought we could. Dr Hopper wants to be our coach and a good coach is a wonderful person to find. By starting out slowly and only doing activities that we really enjoy, we can learn to be more active step by enjoyable step. How easy is that? One of the latest findings in health care is that we all WANT to be healthier, thinner and more fit....only many of us don't know how to get started...and to stick with it. This book makes the starting and the sticking a whole lot easier. Buy this book and you will soon know to.
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