"My Endurance has Decreased?"

Last week I spoke with a handful of people determined to get into shape before the summer is over.

I was there to answer their questions and explain to them how a balanced approach to health & fitness yields a life-time of healthy weight maintenance.

One person asked me an interesting question, though.

He was wondering why his cardiovascular endurance has dropped from a year ago?

I began asking him questions about his current workout program to see if we could figure it out together.

Here's what we found.

Over the last year he was becoming busier at work and started to drop off days of his exercise program. He felt that in order to make up for it, he would just exercise longer on the weekends. The problem was he was used to working out every other day for 45 minutes and now he was just going 2 days in a row for a little over an hour.

That means he was going 5 straight days just sitting at a desk and not exercising…

So the lesson is not to go too long without keeping your body active. Even if it is only a daily walk or a 20 minute body weight workout, just make sure you fit it in.