What do You Think: Is Exercise a Marathon or a Sprint?

What do You Think: Is Exercise a Marathon or a Sprint

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We all want to become healthy. We all want to lose weight, gain strength, look better naked, live longer and improve the quality of our lives. But often we reach a cross roads in our lives where we realize that we have in fact allowed things to drift, have gained weight, have stopped exercising altogether, are developing medical problems and are feeling awful, lethargic and dull. At that point, we have to decide whether to get healthy or continue to let things slide, but the real question is: what is the right approach to getting back on track?

Some people decide that they want immediate results, that their current situation is intolerable, and that to change their lives they will do everything that is radical and extreme in order to improve their health and lose as much weight as possible. This results in a manic rush to change their habits in radical ways, to pay a lot of money for the best possible help, and a dive into the deep end. This is approaching health as a sprint, and sets up the expectation that we can change ourselves almost overnight by putting everything we have into the process.

Other people decide to approach the road to health as if it were a marathon. The make gradual changes, trying to take the changes to nutrition one step at a time, allowing their bodies to adjust as they go. They set realistic long term goals that they then pursue with relentless discipline, trying to lose a small amount of weight each week as opposed to everything in one go. They exercise slowly at first, giving their bodies and joints time to adapt to the new stress, and slowly and progressively challenge themselves.

One of these approaches results in success, the other most often in failure. One stems from realistic and achievable goals, while the other is predicated on immediate and fantatstic results. However, by the time three weeks have gone by, most often one group has quit while the other perseveres. The reason is because exercise is a marathon, and not a sprint.

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