Keep Yourself Well Equipped Or Dont Bother At All

We may have got by in the past with exercise regimes that amounted to running around a hard track as fast as we could in whatever shoes seemed to suit the track. But we also have a record number of people needing replacement joints in their bodies and not being fit to walk for the last few decades of their lives. There are no advantages to throwing yourself into an exercise regime without first thinking about what you will need in order to get it right. If this means spending a bit of money up front, think of how much it would cost to take early retirement and get a new hip. Then divide it by how much you are spending now. That number may scare you, so accept that good equipment is worth what you pay for it.

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Don’t Start Something and Not Finish It

New Year’s Resolutions – did you make one this year? Have you stuck to it? For most people, the answers to those questions are, in order, “yes” and “no”. Just doing something at an arbitrary time defined by tradition is absolutely no way to govern your life. All it means is that you are choosing something, often at random, to complicate your life at a time when things may well be stressful enough already. The New Year may be a good point to decide on making a New You, but the truth is that unless you are ready, you will be more likely to set off with good intentions and then fail to keep to them.

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