Exercising this Christmas with Healthy Living
Are you finding it harder and harder to wake up with that alarm for your early morning workouts? Well, listen up, because tonight in healthy living we highlight three reasons why you should stay on track.
Marleni Cuellar
“It’s that time of year where the nights start to get a little longer and the days a little cooler and one of the things that tend to happen is that you call off the wagon with your exercise routine. But so what right? January is right around the corner and it’s time for the new resolutions. But is it the best thing for our health? That’s what we asked health and fitness coach Ed Williams.”
Ed Williams
Ed Williams, Health & Fitness Coach, Belize Fit Body Clinic
“The top three reasons: the first is momentum; the second is your nutrition plan you don’t want to veer way off your nutrition plan and then the third is hit the ground running in 2019.”
Health and Fitness Coach, Ed Williams, says it is very common for people to fall off their exercise routine as the holidays approach. He highlights why it’s a bad practice for anyone: gym rat or newbie.
Ed Williams
“One of the first things we want to do is maintain a momentum. To keep going. One of the hardest things to do is to get started after you have laid off for a while. That is tough. It is much easier to just keep going even if you slow down. You can go down to the bare minimum working out three times a week for thirty minutes. That is ninety minutes and that is good enough.”
Ed insists that with or without exercise; don’t lose sight of your nutritional goals.
Ed Williams
“You cannot exercise with poor nutrition. Have a plan. Have a strategy going into the holiday season. Another way this works, let’s say you’re going to a buffet, you have a plan. First of all, you have a small plate instead of a big plate and I’ll load up on the good stuff first. Then when I’ve done that, I’ll reward myself with some of the – you know – the things that we love: the sweets and the deserts. With that kind of strategy, you will do better and then you don’t have to feel guilty. The third is you want to hit the ground running for 2019. So it’s not about resolutions and all that it is all about driving through the holidays and the first of 2019 you hit the ground running. The goal is to make this a lifestyle change instead of seasonal because the seasonal thing does not work. We already know that.”
This holiday season, you can either accumulate the effects of healthy practices – like not binging outside our diets and exercising or unhealthy ones – which would be the total opposite. This is something Ed calls the power of accumulation.
Ed Williams
“It’s about the power of accumulation. Nothing just happens. It’s about the power of accumulation. So we want to start now letting the power of accumulation work for us not against us.”
So maybe Christmas time is no time to diet, but no one ever said it’s no time to exercise.
