Review: Exercise Change: Build, Strengthen & Maintain Motivation to Exercise - Awesome book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2014
Matt Williams book "Exercise Change: Build, Strengthen & Maintain Motivation to Exercise" is the first book I've ever read that doesn't stuff all the typical "why's and how's" of exercising down my throat.It takes a new approach and looks at the root of why so many people eagerly and excitedly start an exercise routine but never finish it and achieve their goals. They give up shortly after they start or somewhere in the middle and they remain at square one over and over again.Williams book is written on the premise that it's not what you are doing, but how you are thinking about what you are doing that's the problem. He explains that people stop exercising not because of the exercise itself, but rather because of a lack of knowledge about motivation and a lack of insight into the stages we go through when making a change.The book goes on to explain the ins and outs of motivation, habits, goals and change. I like to think of Williams approach toward exercise habits as an iceberg.Choosing to exercise and then giving up is the tip of the iceberg, the part that you can see. Below the surface however is the bulk of the iceberg and in the case of exercise, the part that causes you to start and then give up over and over again. To simply look at the tip of the iceberg doesn't give you much. It's what's below the surface that trips you up time and time again.In order to fix the part that you can see, you have to work on the part that you can't see. Until you do this, you will stay stuck in the same redundant cycle of failure.I recommend this book to anyone that has a sincere desire to change. It is an excellent, well-written, inspired book that will help you understand how to control your mind and life. When you do this you WILL get what you really want out of it.Excellent, informative book!