“Fitness Doesn’t Take a Vacation Because You Do.”
That was the title of a 2015 article on the Huffington Post, written by Kathy Buckworth, which raises important points about workouts and general busyness.
“Make room in your schedule and make it a meeting with yourself,” Buckworth says about exercise.
It kind of reminds me about responses I’ve heard from people about setting up an RRSP savings plan. They’ll say, for example, “No! I need that money.” And the wise investor will then say, “But it IS your money. It’s savings. Savings for you, for later, when you really need it.”
A regular workout program is just like that. It’s about investing time in a savings program for you, and your body, for later, when you really need it.
What happens when you become inactive? The experts say that it’s your cardio fitness that suffers the most – and the quickest – if you stop working out. After two weeks of inactivity, your VO2 max, which measures your ability to take in, transport and use oxygen during exercise, starts to noticeably decline.
According to the American College of Sports Medicine, people who exercise to feel good stick with workouts longer than those who do it to look good. I think we all agree that a Jazzercise workout makes us feel pretty darn good, which is why, even though a busy season is upon us, we’ll somehow, some way, find time to keep coming to class.
Submitted by Jazzercise London
