Warning, This Can Be Habit Forming

Up late, as usual, watching infomercials or as they call them these days “paid programming”. No, I don’t want the Colon Cleanse, I eat enough fiber, and no, I don’t want to buy a course to teach me how to sell on EBay, I do that already for free without your course thank you. But of course what always catches my eye are the exercise infomercials, oh sorry “paid programming”.

I sat through Slim in 6, Michael Thurmond’s Six Week Body Make Over and Kettleworx. They all were including, free of charge of course, a six week workout guide. I began to wonder why six weeks. Why not two, three or four weeks?

The idea behind the six weeks is that any activity, performed over and over and over again soon becomes a habit. Experts (how do I get on one of these expert panels, anyway?) have discovered that it takes six weeks of repetitive action to successfully form a habit. I guess this also applies to things that are bad for you so if I were you, I would not start any filthy repetitive activity that I don’t want to become a habit.

Now if you did not happen to be up late watching infomercials (damn, there I go again calling them infomercials) and did not get sucked into buying any of the fantastic exercise programs or the zero percent body fat models that were the “after” results of the program didn’t seal the deal for you to add another expense on your already close to maxed out credit card, then this means that you do not have the free six week workout guide that comes with said program.

Oh well, here is a trick, and I promise I don’t have many tricks in my magician’s hat anymore, but this trick is to take a regular calendar and choose a date that you want to begin your exercise program. Mark a BIG X on that date and an even BIGGER X on the date that is six weeks from that date. Make sure that you do your activity at least 3 times a week for the six weeks. Each week, mark that week off to show how much closer to your six week goal you are getting.

After you create your habit even if you take a break from it, you will find that picking it up again, is much easier than if you hadn’t established it at all, though taking a break from exercising I am not recommending (remember, you started this to become healthy not just to lose that stubborn ten pounds and then quit). This will be like riding a bike, even if your bike is buried in the garage under tons of crap, if you pull it out, you will get back on it and ride it like a pro.

TTFN
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You Can Ring My Kettle Bell

I am a collector of exercise DVDs and Videos (don't know whey some people still refuse to put their workouts on DVDs, please get into the 21st century) I have such an assortment that if I chose to workout every day for a month, I would never do the same workout twice in that month. Recently I found a new workout called Kettlentics that I have found to be my workout staple of the moment. Kettlenetics uses a weight that is called a KETTLEBELL or KBELL that is used for the muscle shaping benefits of resistance training, "Kettlenetics is a totally unique, dance-inspired exercise program that swings, slims and sculpts your entire body strong and slender, with easy, flowing moves set to incredible, upbeat music, for fast and fun, total body slimming!"

Though it is dance inspired ( a Miami City Ballet dancer by the name of Michelle Khai is the leading the workouts) you don't have to have rhythm to do it, so if you have been known to step on your own feet while doing the twist, don't let that scare you off. It is just lots of flowing movements while holding the kbell which increases the resistance and in turn burns fat without giving you bulky muscles like Arnold back in the day when he was in Conan the Barbarian, when he was looking like beefcake (not beef jerky like he is beginning to look now.) You can purchase the kettlebell kit which includes DVDs from the Kettlenetics website or pick it up from Amazon for much less than what the official website sells it for, that is if you think that it will be something that you might be interested in adding to your collection to use (or to give you one more thing that you have to blow the dust off of when you are cleaning).

Almost forgot, since KETTLEBELL workouts are the new craze in fitness now, the ever popular company known as THE FIRM also has a kit on the market. Again, you can find it for cheaper on Amazon if you look.

I want to hear your feedback on it if you do give it a try. Take care for today Diet Divas.

TTFN (ta ta for now)

Diet Diva 4 Life