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Pls help a smoking fitness virgin!!

  • 25-01-2010 10:31am
    #1
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    Morning all,

    I'm hoping someone can help me out here, as the title suggests i'm a smoking fitness virgin and really need help getting fit.

    A little about me, i'm 29, 5 11 and about 8 and a half stone, i also have endometriosis which leaves me exhausted most days but i can't and won't let this beat me!! Ideally i want to quit smoking too but a little at a time i say! I walk for about an hour a day but yet can become breathless pretty easy due to the smoking.

    Can someone point me in the right direction as i feel now is the time to make these changes. Any help would be great as i'm thinking being fit could also help my endometriosis :)


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  • #2
    Unreg Today
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭Unreg Today


    99 views and no advice, jeez i'm very surprised!! thanks a lot guys :rolleyes:


  • #3
    cmyk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,366 ✭✭✭cmyk


    Use quitting smoking as an incentive for getting fitter at the same time! That's pretty much how I quit.

    Do what you like doing, if you like walking, walk further and with more intensity the fitter you become. Setting yourself some goals will help too.


  • #4
    delop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 490 ✭✭delop


    When I was giving up smoking.. every time I fell off the wagon and smoked a cigg I kept a little log, and ran around the block for every cigg I had...

    but everyone is different, you have to find what suits you


  • #5
    Goldenlady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 342 ✭✭Goldenlady


    You are definitely right to only focus on one at a time - I believe your best to try and get the fitness levels up, naturally as your fitness levels increase you will want to push yourself harder which will mean the cigarettes will have to either go or be reduced!!
    Im currently training for the Limerick Half Marathon - its my second Half Marathon and have done a few 10Ks - I gave up cigarettes last year( Actually had to give them up after a health scare!) and I got a personal trainer for a couple of weeks and there was a definite improvement in my fitness - I am however back smoking and really trying to train hard!
    What I am trying to say in a long winded way is - have a purpose! Why do you want to become fit? Otherwise its so easy to just stop - My boyfriend always say "No excuses" and it works for me (Most of the time!!)
    So firstly sign up for something - weather its a charity run/walk , Spinning classes etc... an hour a day like ur doing is a great start and you dont have weight to lose which will help you also. :)


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