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When it comes to starting an exercise program, there are many factors that go into deciding what it is you are going to do. You need to consider if you are able to pay a monthly or yearly membership fee (if you are considering joining a gym). You have to decide if you want to buy your own exercise equipment for your home. You have to consider if you like to exercise around other people. And, most importantly, you have to find something that you like.

Regardless of all the other factors, if the exercise you pick is something you don’t like doing, you simply aren’t going to keep doing it for very long. For example, imagine you decided your exercise of choice was jogging, but you don’t actually like jogging. No matter how good your intentions, you aren’t going to keep getting up at 6 AM to go running regularly.

If you can’t find an exercise you enjoy, choose an exercise that you hate the least. In most cases, this will be walking.

There are many reasons why walking is a great exercise. It suits all levels of fitness. You can start a walking program at any time. You don’t need any special equipment to do it. And if you don’t like exercising alone, walking is a good social exercise. It usually isn’t difficult to find a friend or family member who is willing to join in with you and chat as you both exercise. Best of all, walking with a partner will make the time seem to go by much faster.

Walking is a great exercise, but it is still exercise. If you are in bad shape, you should start off slowly by walking just 10 minutes each day. As you slowly get fitter, you should increase the duration by 5 minutes every 2 weeks. And try to keep the walk more interesting by walking a different course every few days, just to give yourself a change in scenery. If you know several friends who want to get fit, you could create a changing roster between you so you’re walking with a different friend each day of the week.

Of course, walking isn’t for everyone. For a more controlled environment, you may want to try a fitness center. The are a huge range of exercise programs available, and they normally have trainers readily on hand to answer any questions you may have.

But before you join the first fitness center you find, make sure that they give good service to their members. A really simple test is to see how they treat you when you first arrive to look at their facilities - if they don’t treat you well before you join (when you’re a potential customer with money), then they certainly won’t treat you well after you join. Another thing you should check while you are looking around is to make sure the equipment they use is well maintained. This is really easy to tell - simply listen to the machines as they are being used. If they squeak a lot or they’re making a lot of noise, it’s likely that the fitness center isn’t looking after their equipment very well.

If you’re still not sure what form of exercise to do, consider golf or tennis. Tennis is great for improving your fitness, but it isn’t a sport for someone who hasn’t been doing any exercise for a long time. If you’re very unfit then golf may be the best activity for you.

In the end, no matter what exercise you decide on, to avoid the risk of injury you should start at a low level of intensity and build it up over a period of weeks. If you don’t, and start off too hard, you could end up with an injury. This will mean you need to take time off from exercising to heal, and undo all the good work you’ve already done.