How To Make Exercise A Habit That Sticks

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Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

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🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Falling off the exercise wagon more than you'd like? These strategies, based on economics and the science of habit formation, can help. Plus, you get to binge-watch TV.

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0:00.0	You are committed to exercise. You've dusted off the gym shoes. You are going to bridge that divide between thinking about it and actually doing it regularly.
0:10.0	Oops, but that was Monday and Tuesday.
0:12.7	Oh, Wednesday's slipping by, and now it's Friday.
0:16.0	What is it going to take to build that habit?
0:18.9	Is that old saying two weeks or three weeks to make a habit?
0:22.2	Is that actually true?
0:23.2	Does the research bear that out?
0:25.4	And 10 seconds to break it.
0:27.0	Yeah.
0:30.0	This is your NPR Life Kit for Exercise.
0:32.8	In this episode, building an exercise habit
0:35.5	that really sticks, making it a regular part of your life,
0:39.0	whether that's a couple times a week or every day.
0:41.7	We've got six tips backed up by science including how
0:45.1	binging on your favorite Netflix show just might help you exercise more often.
0:50.1	Really I promise there's research on this.
0:53.0	That's coming up in a minute. Support for NPR and the following message come from LinkedIn Learning, which offers over
1:09.4	13,000 online courses to help you achieve your goals. You can take a course like
1:14.8	managing stress and learn from experts about the importance of mindfulness,
1:19.1	listening, thinking, and communicating positively and much more. LinkedIn learning videos are sure thinking and
1:24.0	communicating positively and much more.
1:23.0	LinkedIn learning videos are short so you can fit a lesson in between workouts
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