{"id":790,"date":"2009-12-15T18:57:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T01:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-12-15T18:57:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T01:57:51","slug":"being-active-its-all-in-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/being-active-its-all-in-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Active: It&#8217;s All in Your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is overwhelming scientific evidence that being active and exercising regularly is essential for good health. Yet many, if not most, Americans remain relatively inactive. Fewer than 20% of Americans exercise intensely for an hour four times a week. Being active and exercising regularly though,\u00a0are not necessarily the same thing. Exercising regularly involves discipline and the conscious decision to make exercise a priority in life. We exercise because we want to&#8230;..we want to be stronger, look\/feel better, perform better,\u00a0improve our\u00a0flexibilty, fit into a new pair of pants, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Being active is a way of life&#8212;-it is what humans are designed for. An inactive lifestyle is a learned activity,\u00a0an accumulation of bad habits. Perhaps, whether a person makes exercise a priority is determined by the subconscious mind. How do you know if you have a subconscious mind that favors exercise?<\/p>\n<p>I have developed a list of ten actions that a person with an &#8220;active&#8221; mind-set might perform. See how many you perform on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>take the stairs whenever possible, especially if it is a matter of\u00a0 only 1-3 flights.<\/li>\n<li>walk or bike for short-distance errands (1-3 blocks)<\/li>\n<li>walk a golf course\u00a0instead of\u00a0using a cart<\/li>\n<li>take your dog or cat for a walk\u00a0instead of\u00a0letting them run around the neighborhood off-leash<\/li>\n<li>park in the first available parking spot\u00a0instead of\u00a0circling the area until you find a closer parking spot<\/li>\n<li>getting out of your car and going to the front door\u00a0of a house\u00a0instead of\u00a0honking your horn and expecting that person to run out to your car<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0carrying your luggage\u00a0instead of\u00a0pulling\/rolling your bags<\/li>\n<li>carrying your grocery bags to your car\u00a0instead of\u00a0using a cart<\/li>\n<li>bringing your grocery cart back to the store or cart area vs. leaving the cart next to your parking spot<\/li>\n<li>clean your home on a regular basis vs. hiring a cleaning service&#8212;-same thing with yard work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How &#8220;active&#8221; is your mind-set? If you perform 7 or more of these actions on a regular basis, then you are internally motivated to exercise daily\u00a0. If you perform 3-6 regularly, then you have an &#8220;active&#8221; mind-set but may need a little motivation to exercise regularly. If you infrequently perform any of these actions,\u00a0you probably need a lot of motivation to exercise&#8230;if you exercise at all.<\/p>\n<p>Being active is a personal choice&#8212;it really is &#8220;all in your head&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is overwhelming scientific evidence that being active and exercising regularly is essential for good&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/being-active-its-all-in-your-head\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast-physical-therapy-services.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}