10 Reasons to Be Thankful for Fitness

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

06 Nov 2006 06:55 AM

Good morning and Happy Monday! We've got a little over two weeks left till thanksgiving and today I want to talk to you about the 10 reasons I am thankful for fitness. As I have often said here in the fitness blog, our fitness is contingent on more than just our physical well being, but also our spiritual, emotional and mental well-being. I am thankful for:

• Daily cardiovascular exercise because it helps me cope with stress and anger, I always had an anger management problem as a child, but daily exercise seems to release a lot of that tension and keeps my anger in check
• Daily exercise because it helps me to feel better about myself and combat illness. For a few years there it seemed that I caught a cold any time someone around me sniffled, regular exercise prevents that
• Exercising and playing with my daughter, something that brings me real joy - it's a hoot when she comes to me and reminds me we haven't exercised together today and that we need to sit down and do our stretching workouts together
• Puzzles, word games and board games that challenge me mentally, there is something about getting my mind revved up every day that helps me get back into the game of writing every day
• Holidays that reinforce fitness or why we need to be thankful for it - despite the relationship between over-eating and Thanksgiving, there's more to it than that including lists like this
• Weight training because it helped to build up my upper body strength which means picking up my fifty-pound daughter isn't a real effort and I can actually carry her if I need to
• Hobbies that are related to physical fitness like equestrian sports, biking and hiking
• Personal trainers and articles on fitness that offer me more challenges to meet and ideas to put into practice
• This blog that helps me maintain my own inspiration and motivation and my readers and their own tales of success are more inspiring than anything else
• My workouts because I feel a sense of personal success and completion in meeting personal challenges whether I am ramping up my weight training, my cardio or my endurance

What are you thankful for about your fitness this holiday season?

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Learn more about Heather Long

Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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