Exercise 3 - Start NOW

Exercise 3 - When to Start

Most exercise programs suggest that the best time to start is “NOW”. Unfortunately what they omit to mention is that generally before you can start you need to do one of the following:

Wait until you have time and money to join a gym,
Wait until you have time and money to buy the required shoes,
Wait until you have time and money to buy the right (their) equipment,
Wait until the next morning because you first have to read the book to know what to do.
Etc.

All of these reasons to delay starting the program is often the reason that most people just read the book and the next morning (wisely) decide they don’t feel like making the effort.

My exercise program has the advantage that you can start it NOW. As you are reading this sentence you are probably already following my program, all you will need to do is to continue doing what you are doing now.

The reason I am so sure that you are already doing the basics of my exercise routine is that it is highly unlikely that you are reading this book while shuffling alongside the road in a crunched up posture telling yourself you are lengthening your life by jogging.

There is only one circumstance I can conceive where you should not start my program NOW. If you are reading this book inside a bookstore and the sales assistant is glaring at you then you first need to buy the book NOW.

Obviously there are some ways that are better than others to start the program.

I would recommend that you go to your favourite chair with a glass of whiskey or beer (leave the wine and the water for the joggers – they deserve it.)

If you have started to read the book in the morning and you feel that having a whiskey or beer is going to be frowned upon by your spouse you have three options:
Explain to her that you have started a new exercise routine which involves not feeling guilty about what you drink. To demonstrate that you are serious you don’t care what you drink in the morning because if it is good for you after noon, then it has to be good for you before noon. Tell her/him that in due course she/he will notice you have a much more pleasant don’t care attitude to life, you won’t even care that she/he is overweight. Start to prepare her/him for the new you.
Wait until after noon.
Divorce your spouse. She/he is obviously not willing to take the journey towards being a pleasanter person with you.

If you can then take the book outside so you can continuously remind yourself about what nature is about. You will find this inspirational since the whole concept of this exercise program is built around being natural.

If you do go outside in your own garden then before you read further have a look around and identify a place where you can build a private corner with a chair on which you can contemplate nature. Think of how this can be enhanced with a few shrubs that require low maintenance and which brings nature closer to you and provide some privacy for you to drink your whiskey or beer in. Dream about this place for a while before you start to read my book. You will find this inspirational.

Having thought about this place make it your BIG DREAM. You will see that much of the exercise program is based on you having BIG DREAMS for yourself and about yourself.

Now that you have your first BIG DREAM think about who will build your dream: your gardener? Your Wife (unlikely, but some people are lucky)? Your children (less likely)? If you can, then settle on the gardener. Only if you are a real handyman should you decide to do this yourself – and this is another basic belief about my exercise program: don’t get roped into doing things you don’t enjoy and therefore things you are not good at.

So now you know when to start. In case you fell asleep while dreaming of building your own exercise space in the corner of your garden, with a comfortable chair and a fridge for your whiskey and beer and shrubs for privacy, let me repeat: START NOW.

Unlike other programs suggesting that you ‘start now’ and you will feel the benefits in three months time after a lot of pain and deprivation, I can guarantee you that if you start my program now, you will feel the benefits NOW.