What's the best exercise?

I get asked that all the time. My answer? The one you'll do. Your first goal should be to get moving. Once you have a form of movement on your schedule regularly, then we can talk about what else you can do to get the results that you want. I never assume that fat loss is my client's goal. Maybe it's stress release or a sense of well being or better sleep or better sex. All of those are great benefits of exercise which can be achieved by low intensity movement. Do you like to dance? Try a ballet barre class...or hip hop....of NIA. There are many, many choices. Do you like nature? Simply walking or riding a bike, for fun, will bring you those benefits. Bowling, square dancing, golf, roller-blading, etc - all those activities have many benefits BUT fat loss is not one of them. Maybe initially, if you haven't moved your body for a long time, but after a couple of weeks of regular activity you will need more. Especially if fat loss is a goal.

Research now shows that a body will get 'used to' an activity in as little as two weeks. That means that if you take up a walking program say, three days a week, you will intially see results but after about two weeks those changes will level out. Why? Because your body recognizes the activity and adjusts down. I know. That sucks. But your body is always in survival mode. It thinks 'if he/she does this all the time, I need to put out LESS energy in order to last (live) longer'. So now you add an extra day per week of walking. Again, you'll probably see a little results in the next couple of weeks, but then your body will adapt again. Adaption is a very good thing. That is one of the reasons we have survived this world/environment of ours over the years. People used to live to be 40 years old, now we live to be 80 or 85 or even 100. Statistic show that almost 50% of women today will live to be 100. 100!! That's incredible! Don't you want to make it the best 100 years ever?