10 Tips for Getting Started

If you’re over 40 and have gotten out of shape, it may feel like you’ve wandered down a maze and can’t find your way back. Your body has become as soft as a marshmallow, you find yourself winded when you climb a flight of stairs or walk around the block and you may have started wearing plus size clothes.

Wanting to begin to get fit after 40 is easier said than done. For one thing, results are often not noticeable right away. Changing your diet and beginning to exercise may seem like they’re getting you nowhere. Many people become discouraged with lack of quick results and quit trying. Or exercise may lead to soreness and discomfort, making it more difficult to try again the next day.

Don’t give up! Others before you have transformed out-of-shape middle-aged bodies and you can too.

Here are 10 tips for beginning to get fit after 40.

1) Decide that you’re going to commit to getting fit. Make a list of the reasons that you have to make changes in your life. Maybe you have gotten a wake up call from your doctor. Maybe you are just tired of not being able to walk around the block without needing to lie down. The bottom line is continuing with poor health habits may lead to heart attack, stroke, or other stress-related illness. Remember that the longer you wait, the harder it’s going to be.

2) Let your family and friends know what you’ve decided. By letting those close to you know that you are committed to your goal, you are making yourself accountable.

3) Find a role model. There is nothing more inspiring that the story of someone who lost over a hundred pounds or someone who transformed their body through weight training in their seventies. Find a success story; know that that person succeeded and you will too.

4) Create a mental picture of how you want to look and how you want to feel. Picture yourself the way you will be when you meet your goal. See yourself with more flexibility and strength, wearing clothes that fit. Bring up this image in your mind every day.

5) Start slowly, but do get started. Many people abandon fitness plans because they try to do too much too soon. It’s better to complete five minutes on the treadmill your first day and gradually increase your workout time than to do thirty minutes your first day and then not go back because you were too sore the next day.

6) Schedule your fitness time. Set a time to workout and give it the same priority as any other appointment.

7) Get a buddy. By having a buddy pursuing the same goal, you will be less inclined to quit at the first sign of discouragement.

8) Pay attention to your progress. Keep a journal and record pounds or inches lost. A half pound or a half inch may not be noticeable at first, but if you’re keeping track, you will know that what you are doing is paying off.

9) Reward yourself for each small goal. This could mean a night out with a friend if you complete your first week exercising, or it could mean a new outfit when you lose the first five pounds.

10) Don’t give up. Above all, keep being persistent. Even when it seems you aren’t making progress, you are. Baby steps to progress add up.

Above all, get started. If your body is soft and out of shape, it’s only going to get worse from here. You can transform your body and your life, if you get started today.

Getting Fit Over 40

If you need to get fit over 40, knowing where to get started can be the hardest part. Sure you can join a gym, but if you’re out of shape, you’ll find hour long exercise classes will be impossible, and if you do manage to get through the classes you’ll be so sore the next day, you won’t want to go back. Weight training without guidance is downright dangerous.

Then there is dieting. There is so much conflicting information that you may not know where to begin. As you have gotten older, you have probably noticed that starving yourself no longer works. Many diet plans are so complicated that they’re like having a second job.

The worst part about needing to get fit over 40 is the clock is ticking. Your health is at risk if you don’t get started. You may feel puzzled as to where to begin in you’ve gotten very out of shape, and you may feel discouraged at programs you’ve tried before that don’t work.

Jon Benson and Tom Benuto have designed a plan to get fit over 40 that will show you exactly what to do step by step. Tom Benuto is the author of Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. Jon Benson speaks from the experience of a person who was so at risk from lifelong poor health habits that his life literally depended on making dramatic changes. The changes that transformed his life are available to you in his program “Fit Over 40” and can do the same for you.

The benefits of this program include the following:

1) This program shows you the fastest and easiest way to lose weight and reverse the aging process. He will show you the way to boost your metabolism, gain muscle and lose weight.

2) Learn how to literally melt pounds and inches off your body.

3) Learn to slash 15-20 years off your looks without surgery. Wouldn’t you love to not only feel better but look younger?

4) Learn to increase your attractiveness to the opposite sex.

5) One problem a lot of people over 40 experience is lack of energy. With Jon’s program, you will experience an energy explosion! Your sluggish metabolism will be supercharged and you will burn calories at a faster rate.

6) Tighten up the sagging, flabby spots on your body by gaining muscle

7) Boost your immune system and build your body’s ability to defend itself against colds, flus and viruses.

8) Improve your bone density and avoid osteoporosis. No more leg stiffness, muscle cramps or neck and back pain

9) Restore mental function. Experience greater mental clarity and increase your
self-confidence.

10) Get motivated from day 1 and stay super motivated to make these healing changes in your life.

"Fit Over 40" offers not only guidance for transforming your life, but also inspiring success stories of those who have succeeded, people who had major health problems and turned their lives around, people who were morbidly obese and now are fit. You’ll read their stories and say, “If they can do it, I can do it.”

No matter what shape you’re in today, you can transform your body and your life. Learn how you can get fit over 40 by people who have done it. Learn to be the best person you can be.