Fitness Level One: Transitioners.
The Profile. Transitioners are in transit from being unfit and unhealthy to something approaching rudimentary fitness and a healthier lifestyle.
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- Are you someone who rarely gets out the door to exercise?
- Is your Me-Time spent in sedentary mode (TV and snacking)?
- Do you need social support to develop new exercise habits?
- Do you find it difficult to imagine enjoying a fitness regimen?
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- Do you work long hours that afford you little time and energy for exercise?
- Are you often too tired and depressed after work to consider exercise?
- Is your home life characterized by harmful sedentary and nutritional habits?
- Do you find excuses to stop an exercise regimen at the first possible moment?
- Are you discouraged and shamed by your limited and deteriorating physical ability?
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The Prerequisite Commitments. As a Transitioner, you are attempting a fundamental transformation from non-athlete to novice athlete, where being “athletic” is an emerging awareness that fitness exercise can be pleasant, rewarding, and fun.
Prerequisites attitudes include:
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- Develop a loving, nurturing, and respectful relationship with your body. Being infirmed and unable to perform is not your body’s fault; you have made it that way with years of dissolute behavior. You must commit to giving your body what it wants and needs.
- Becoming a novice athlete also means accepting your scary health and fitness circumstances. You should at least be willing to reverse years of sedentary living by starting exercise with non-injurious levels of exertion for short bouts several times a week.
- As important as your work or family is to you or others, you will be relatively ineffectual without first taking care of physical fitness: body composition, flexibility, strength, and stamina. You must balance passive-sedentary Me-Time with active-exercise Me-Time.
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