{"id":7725,"date":"2017-02-06T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2017-02-06T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T23:32:53","slug":"getting-over-the-fear-of-exercise-thestruggleisreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/getting-over-the-fear-of-exercise-thestruggleisreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Over The Fear Of Exercise \u2013 #TheStruggleIsReal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone that knows me is aware that I do NOT like to exercise. In fact I often jokingly tell people that sweating is against my religion in attempt to avoid it.\u00a0 You see, I am that girl that would rather diet than exercise any day of the week, which I fully admit is a terrible attitude to have, but I am all about honesty and that is simply the truth.<\/p>\n<p>I think part of the reason I don\u2019t like exercise is because I genuinely have a fear of exercising. I have a fear that if I start it I will have to maintain it\u2026and the thought of that is terrifying!\u00a0 It means I will have to add something else to my already crazy schedule. It feels like adding one more stress onto the pile. And it means I have to change into workout clothes and risk having other people notice all my unsightly bulges\u2026yikes!\u00a0 The thought is too much to endure!<\/p>\n<p>That being said &#8211; I want to be better. I really do. I realize that exercise is incredibly important for my health, let alone being good for my weight.\u00a0 And given that I want to live a long life so I can enjoy taking my future grandchildren boating and to Disneyland and on all kinds of exciting adventures with me, I have come to accept that I am going to have to get over my fear of exercise!<\/p>\n<p>And so, as I do in all things in life, I find someone I can look to as an example who excels in their field. When I thought about who I admire as an expert in exercise, Heidi Pestana was the first person that came to mind. Heidi is like the queen of exercising in my book! The woman is an exercise machine! She has six packs for days\u2026literally\u2026 I don\u2019t know anyone who is as passionate and dedicated to exercising as she is, and what amazes me is that she genuinely and truly seems to LOVE it! In addition, she also really loves helping other people find a love for it.<\/p>\n<p>The other day Heidi sent me a link to her new website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixpackguineapigs.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sixpackguineapigs.com\/<\/a> where she allows anyone to sign up to receive a daily workout routine emailed right to them \u2013 and it\u2019s totally free! It reminded me that we are never too old to start getting in shape&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As much as I admittedly hate exercising I am going to give a few of her exercises a try. At least the easier ones&#8230;baby steps people&#8230;baby steps&#8230; I may never have a six pack like Heidi but maybe her routines can help me can get a little less jiggle in my wiggle \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Take a second to check out her website because everyone knows that misery loves company and if I am going to try exercising then it would be nice to know everyone else will be out there doing it right along with me \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day!<\/p>\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone that knows me is aware that I do NOT like to exercise. In fact I often jokingly tell people that sweating is against my religion in attempt to avoid it.\u00a0 You see, I am that girl that would rather diet than exercise any day of the week, which I fully admit is a terrible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,1475,12442,12440,91,6323,12436,12429,3048,4422,615,1951,171,3047,12432,12434,10287,364,9669,476,2970,3728,246,325,4057,12446,12426,3730,12443,8301,12444,12437,193,12445,12438,651,5677,12427,12428,12441,275,1585,7211,172,12439,12433,9232,12430,12435,12431],"class_list":["post-7725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-attempt","tag-avoid-it","tag-bulges","tag-change","tag-clothes","tag-crazy-schedule","tag-daily-workout","tag-diet","tag-endurance","tag-endure","tag-exercise","tag-fail","tag-fat","tag-get-in-shape","tag-getting-in-shape","tag-give-it-a-try","tag-goal","tag-grandchild","tag-grandma","tag-grandparent","tag-habit","tag-health","tag-healthy","tag-healthy-eating","tag-heart-health","tag-heidi-pestana","tag-in-shape","tag-live-long","tag-look-good","tag-maintain","tag-one-more-thing","tag-recipe","tag-regular","tag-ripped","tag-routine","tag-sexy","tag-six-pack","tag-six-pack-guinea-pigs","tag-spare-tire","tag-stress","tag-sweat","tag-terrifying","tag-try","tag-unsightly-bulge","tag-work-a-body","tag-working-out","tag-workout","tag-workout-clothes","tag-workout-routine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7738,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions\/7738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}