1. Exercise
• Maybe your grandparents or your parents didn't exercise for health.
• In the 1940's a well-known writer joked, "If I have an urge to exercise, I lie down,
until the urge goes away."
• Then, people were advised to rest for their health, especially if they had heart
problems.

2. Exercise
• Resting was supposed to be better for your health than exercise.
• Couch potatoes existed before TV was invented.
• In the 1940's, few people went to gyms.
• A gym was a dark smoky place where fighters worked out.

3. Exercise
• Times change.
• In the 1960's President Kennedy urged the nation to get up off the couch and
run for health and fitness.
• Cardiologists began recommending at least twenty minutes of daily exercise
for heart health.
• Lots of people began running for their health.

4. Exercise
• In the 1990's gyms began springing up like mushrooms.
• Gyms offered fitness classes.
• Personal trainers became popular.
• Gyms put in pools so people could swim laps and do water aerobics.
• People began thinking about the importance of exercise.

5. Exercise
• People enrolled in gyms or exercised on their own.
• Research shows that men who exercises lose more weight that women do.
• Too bad. Women have to be more careful about their calorie intake to lose
weight.
• Luckily, women who exercise keep weight off.

6. Exercise
• People have become very exercise conscious.
• Exercise videos are now widely available.
• Fitness programs are shown on television.
• You can exercise in front of the TV for free.
• Exercise is calming.

7. Exercise
• Doctors say exercise protects the heart, strengthens bones, helps stay ahead of
arthritis and relieves stress.
• The human body needs exercise just as dogs and horses do.
• Yet people make lots of excuses for not exercising.

8. Exercise
• Some people say, "My family never exercised."
• But, even if I wanted to exercise I don't have time in the morning.
• I have to get the kids off to school.
• I have to go to work.
• I don't have time after work.

9. Exercise
• I have to carpool the kids.
• I have to get dinner.
• If I exercise before bed, it keeps me awake.
• It's boring.
• I don't think I have the energy for it.
• I don't really enjoy it.

10. Exercise
• It bothers my knees.
• I don't have a companion.
• I am embarrassed because I don't know how to use the equipment in the gym.
• I don't run because I'm afraid of the dogs on the street.
• My bike needs to be fixed.
• Will I be the first in my family to exercise routinely?

11. Exercise
• Could you be giving yourself negative self-suggestions?
• Hmmm!
• Ever think you might get to enjoy exercise?
• Kids exercise when they play.
• They enjoy play.
• They don't call it exercise.

12. Exercise
• Wonder if you are missing something enjoyable?
• Maybe you can begin to think about exercise a little more "flexibly," more
"positively?."
• Take a moment to check out your attitudes toward exercise.
• Positive self-suggestions can lead to action!

13. Exercise
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14. Exercise