f our day to escape school, chores, or homework and go out to play. As adults, however, exercise has become the dreaded workout that we schedule, dread, and force ourselves to do. What happened tDo you face workouts and exercise with dread and misery? Do you avoid them whenever possible, or perhaps altogether? Do you pass your mirror quickly to avoid those feelings of guilt that come when you see how out of shape you have become? Unfortunately, you are among thousands of Americans who have come to view hard work and exercise with such feelings. As our nation becomes more and more obese, more adults view exercise as just too much work. But, I would like to remind you that you didn’t always feel that way about exercise . . .

Remember recess? Remember playtime outside? Remember hours of running and climbing, swimming and playing ball? Talk about exercise!!! Yet, you didn’t call that work . . . you called it play! In fact, for many of us, it was the highlight of our day to escape school, chores, or homework and go out to play. As adults, however, exercise has become the dreaded workout that we schedule, dread, and force ourselves to do. What happened to

n you see how out of shape you have become? Unfortunately, you are among thousands of Americans who have come to view hard work and exercise with such feelings. As our nation becomes more and more obese, more adults view exercise as just too much work. But, I would like to remind you that you didn’t always feel that way about exercise . . .

Remember recess? Remember playtime outside? Remember hours of running and climbing, swimming and playing ball? Talk about exercise!!! Yet, you didn’t call that work . . . you called it play! In fact, for many of us, it was the highlight of our day to escape school, chores, or homework and go out to play. As adults, however, exercise has become the dreaded workout that we schedule, dread, and force ourselves to do. What happened t

obese, more adults view exercise as just too much work. But, I would like to remind you that you didn’t always feel that way about exercise . . .

Remember recess? Remember playtime outside? Remember hours of running and climbing, swimming and playing ball? Talk about exercise!!! Yet, you didn’t call that work . . . you called it play! In fact, for many of us, it was the highlight of our day to escape school, chores, or homework and go out to play. As adults, however, exercise has become the dreaded workout that we schedule, dread, and force ourselves to do. What happened t

? Remember hours of running and climbing, swimming and playing ball? Talk about exercise!!! Yet, you didn’t call that work . . . you called it play! In fact, for many of us, it was the highlight of our day to escape school, chores, or homework and go out to play. As adults, however, exercise has become the dreaded workout that we schedule, dread, and force ourselves to do. What happened tf our day to escape school, chores, or homework and go out to play. As adults, however, exercise has become the dreaded workout that we schedule, dread, and force ourselves to do. What happened to the pleasure of play, of outdoor exercise, of companionship in outdoor games? Somewhere along the way, it became the hated gym class, then dreary 1-2-3-4 exercises done alone in your room, then the dreaded visits to the nearby gym with sweaty spandex, tired muscles, and the defeatism of watching those perfect bodies across the room effortlessly running through their maintenance routines.

Forcing yourself to diligently face the 1-2-3-4’s, the sweaty gyms, the lonely hours of driving yourself to complete that exercise program may finally get you in shape, but could there be a more cheery way to get there? Must you face exercise as you would face a dreaded foe, full of guilt, dread, and defeatism? Could you accomplish your goals with the same pleasure and enjoyable co