ON YOUR MARK!
Why is exercise important?
Everybody wants to live a healthy life, and exercise can help keep you looking and feeling your best. Regular exercise and physical activity:
- Helps you look good by toning your body
- Helps you boost your calorie-burning ability
- Helps you feel better
- Gives you a sense of achievement
- Increases self-confidence
- Improves your general sense of well-being
As you undertake this fitness program, keep in mind that fitness is an individual quality that varies from person to person. It is influenced by age, sex and heredity, as well as by personal habits, activity level and eating practices. While you can’t change the first three factors, you do have the ability to improve the others. There are no rules or age limits to physical activity. This handbook simply provides a foundation for those just getting started and those who want to keep going. The pages that follow offer some nutrition facts to help you improve your eating habits as well as a multilevel series of exercise regimens for people of different activity levels. Texercise your right to look and feel good! We challenge you to make today the first day of a new, healthier life. Remember, proper nutrition and exercise at least three times a week for 30 minutes can get you on your way to looking and feeling better. Make the commitment for good health now.
Remember
If you have a physical condition that may affect your ability to safely perform any exercise in this handbook, consult your doctor before beginning the program. As with any exercise program you should stop immediately and consult a physician if, at any point during your workout, you begin to feel faint, dizzy, or have physical discomfort.
Updated: August 28, 2008
