Discover How Less Exercise Can Keep You Healthier and Leaner.

That's right, sometimes less is better. Lifestyle is basically divided up into four components. Physical - Exercise, diet, flexibility and recovery. Mental - Reading, learning new skills, planning and visualisation. Spiritual - Determining your true values and direction in this life and aligning your actions with those values and goals. Lastly is the emotional side - awareness of your self talk and emotional thoughts because these thoughts materialise in behaviours which are detrimental or constructive in creating internal harmony for you. So if you are lacking in any of these areas, there is a fair chance you are over compensating in another component of your lifestyle.

In most cases if any component of the lifestyle puzzle is over done it is exercise. You need to realise that exercise is a stress on your body. So if your lifestyle is already out of balance, over compensating with exercise can be detrimental to your health. It will be adding more stress to an out of balance system taking it even further away from optimum health. This lifestyle can't be maintained long term. So eradicate the disastrous thought processes that tell you it is ok to drink and eat myself silly as long as I exercise harder to make up for it. This is a sure fire way to create more muscle eating, body fat protecting stress hormone in your body. Does this explain why you are not losing any body fat even though you are exercising harder than ever.

This is why an exercise routine needs to now be tailored to match other aspects of your life. And I have no hesitation in advising people to stop exercising so much, relax more and spend more time with your family, friends. When the lifestyle scales start to balance up, sure ramp up the exercise. But not at the expense of other components of your lifestyle. You need to think holistic when thinking lifestyle, otherwise you will spend more time recovering from flus, colds, sore throats and the list goes on.

Get more bang for your buck when exercising. With all of the studies in sport science being conducted you are truly wasting time doing hours on hours of exercise. It truly is counter productive. My lifestyle organisation Lifestyle Improvers considers all of these factors when prescribing exercise for our valuable members, so make sure you do to.