Dr. Gilewski offers helpful tips on taking responsibility for your own health through exercise. Like any other lifestyle or behavior change, exercise needs to be reinforced.
Persistence is the key to that reinforcement.
Although progress with exercise and weight loss tends to be slow when approached sensibly, the benefits are well worth the discipline. Try not to compare your progress with others. Remember the greatest benefit from exercise has been shown in inactive persons who began light exercise three times weekly for 20 minutes. Branches of neurons or cells connect to other nerve branches enabling repetition that allows for improving the activity. This is how good habits such as exercise are born, claims Dr. Michael Gilewski of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California.