QUOTE: Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.

- Erma Bombeck

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Gaining and maintaining your fitness can be fun and should be fun.

Anything that is seen as a chore is something that most people will try to avoid and it will make it difficult to maintain for any period of time.

Unlike a job where we get paid for doing something that we might not always enjoy, the rewards from fitness are something that are difficult to place a value on.

Obviously the value of good health is more important than most things in life but it is so easy to discount, that we need to look at the fitness program that we will be using to ensure it will be fun and we will continue to use it.

There are so many different ways of keeping fit and many of these can be as enjoyable as a walk in the park with your dog or a swim in the pool every day, a bike ride with your family.

If you are starting on a fitness program that you find difficult and unappealing from day one then there is a good possibility that you will not follow through and get the benefits that you expect from the program

You would be better off choosing a program that might not deliver the same results in the same time but one that you know you will follow through until the end.

If you can find some form of fitness training that you really enjoy doing then you can make it a lifetime activity and enjoy improved health for as long as possible.

Your fitness program should be something that you look forward to when you wake each day.

The fitter you get, and the more benefits that you see from your fitness the more likely you are going to enjoy what you are doing.

Your perspective of training will change, as you get fitter, so you might find that you need to reassess the program you are on and change it as your fitness level increases.