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“Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.”<\/p>\n

Alan Thicke<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you find exercise to be fun, boring, or miserable?<\/p>\n

If it’s one of the latter two, you’ve come to the right place.<\/p>\n

The popular way to\u00a0make exercise\u00a0fun is through competition, such as sports. Sports are great, but not\u00a0all<\/i>\u00a0people enjoy them\u00a0or can physically\u00a0play them. How can\u00a0they<\/i>\u00a0make exercise\u00a0more fun?<\/p>\n

Make Exercise\u00a0A Currency<\/h3>\n

Do you\u00a0enjoy\u00a0watching\u00a0TV or playing video games?\u00a0There is a huge amount of\u00a0untapped\u00a0power in\u00a0these types of “lazy” leisure activities. Let me explain:<\/p>\n

A\u00a0certain part of me would love\u00a0to play video games 24 hours a day. But playing video games doesn’t really advance my real life apart from improving my hand-eye coordination a little bit.\u00a0I can, however, leverage my\u00a0desire to play games\u00a0<\/i>in order to do things that actually do advance my personal growth (exercise).<\/p>\n

Think about money: these are pieces of paper and metal that we assign\u00a0value to. If I hold up a 100 dollar bill and another piece of paper of the same size with a dolphin on it, a person will react much more strongly to the money, because they don’t see it as “just paper.” They see it as a few nice meals, a day in Disney World (ok, maybe 1\/3 of a day), a hotel stay, a fun night out, or nice clothes. They know that they can exchange money for the things they want.<\/em><\/p>\n

We can do the same thing with exercise and assign additional value to it by making it a currency for fun activities.<\/p>\n

Set Up Your Exercise Shop!<\/h3>\n

Most people dislike working, but they do it to get money, which in turns gets them the things they want (food, homes, cars, goods, services).\u00a0Let’s\u00a0use this proven model to get ourselves to exercise! Unlike work, though, this\u00a0will have a tighter action-reward relationship, which is a big\u00a0plus for making exercise\u00a0into a\u00a0habit. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n