GenoVive is excited to be featured on the award-winning fitness series Get Fit With Leslie with Leslie Hoffman. For years, Leslie has inspired people to look and feel their best with upbeat exercise routines, interviews with medical experts and nutrition segments.  On upcoming episodes of Get Fit With Leslie, you'll get an in-depth look at how GenoVive's weight loss program works as Leslie goes inside the lab with Dr. San San Ng to learn why DNA is an important factor in weight loss success and how easy it is to do the cheek swab DNA test.  Along with Leslie you'll learn about GenoVive's meal program and the benefits of all-natural foods and see how GenoVive inspired long-term health and fitness goals for one local mom.

You'll also see Leslie's fun weekly workout routines.  Watch Get Fit With Leslie weekdays on Cox 4 and twice per week on CST. 

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Exercise would have been a weird concept to people hundreds of  years ago. The average life of a worker was very difficult before great advances in industry and technology. Merely staying alive and healthy required an enormous amount of physical effort. Some people barely grew or found enough food to support themselves. Most of us still work just as hard as we did back then, but not in a physical way. Now we have jobs that require enormous amounts of mental energy. We feel just as exhausted at the end of a long day at work, but our bodies don’t burn nearly as many calories as they used to during the day.

This busy but sedentary lifestyle leads to problems when it comes to losing weight. We’re eating the same amount of calories on average as we did many years ago, but we’re moving around a lot less. This leads to a pandemic of weight gain. People who want to maintain a healthy weight really have no choice but to exercise, but since we’re just as busy as we’ve always been, that can be a difficult task. You need to be able to make room in your schedule for exercise while still having time for work, family, household tasks and commuting. There are lots of different ways to do this even though it may require sacrifice.

One of the most popular ways to fit in exercise is to do it right before or after work. This way you can stop off at the gym to or from the office. If you exercise at home like you can on our customized exercise program, fitting in time for exercise can be even easier. You can do your routine while watching the morning news to start your day or listen to your favorite music. Don’t let your busy schedule be an excuse for not staying thin and healthy. Exercise will make you feel great, relieve depression, produce better sleep and help keep your mind focused during the day. Don’t fall into the sedentary trap that modern technology offers you, keep exercising!

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Boredom is one of the leading reasons that people quit their exercise routines. The logic behind this is quite simple. Absent any entertainment or distractions, exercise is boring. Running on a treadmill or using an exercise bike in the same place hour after hour can get very tedious. Thankfully, we live in a technological age where we can bring entertainment with us wherever we go. MP3 players give us access to nearly limitless music while smart phones and tablets let us watch our favorite shows and movies wherever we happen to be. There is simply no excuse in modern times to be bored while exercising.

There are two types of entertainment when it comes to exercising: accompaniment and distraction. Most music can be placed in the category of accompaniment. This is because music can be used to create rhythm and flow during an exercise routine. For example, when you are on a treadmill or elliptical and a good song comes on you often feel the desire to exercise at the same beat as the song.  The music also creates a sense of purpose to your workout routine, as if you were Rocky Balboa training to the Eye of the Tiger. Music creates a soundtrack to your routine that gives you the motivation to continue to the end.

Movies and television are in the category of distraction. Rather than becoming integrated in the workout like music does, video has the tendency to distract us from what is going on around us. It forces us to use both our sense of sight and sound to focus on what is happening on screen. Watching a television show or a movie helps us ignore the thumping of a treadmill or our own thoughts of wanting to quit because it’s too hard. Most custom exercise routines can be finished within the scope of a single television episode. You can also break up a movie into three different days of exercise.

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Jody hated to exercise. Her trainer advised her to work out three days a week, and each of those days proved to be an enormous struggle. She often made excuses not to go, such as not getting enough sleep, not feeling quite right or having too much work to do. While she was able to stick to her routine during the first few weeks, she eventually found herself skipping work outs more and more often before she ended up quitting altogether.

Jody’s problem wasn’t that the exercise was too difficult. In fact, she thrived during the most intense portions of her routine, and afterwards she always said she felt like a million bucks. The problem for her was getting the motivation to go in the first place. This was because she was looking at her exercise routine as if it were a job. She felt as if the gain she was getting out of her routines wasn’t worth the effort that she was putting into it. She needed an additional source of motivation that wasn’t coming from the simple promise to lose weight.

Jody’s trainer advised her to find a workout partner, someone she could enjoy working out with and who she could be accountable too.  After talking to several of her friends, she found someone who was not only on a similar type of custom exercise routine, but was trying to exercise through a very similar schedule. Almost immediately Jody started her workout program once again, this time with the company of her friend.  Rather than feel the dread of future workouts as if it were a bad job, Jody found herself constantly looking forward to her exercise days. She and her friend often found themselves smiling and laughing throughout their work outs and discussing them fondly after they were over. For the first time she discovered something that not only made her healthier and happier, but something she loved to do as well.

Your GenoVive exercise program has the right level of intensity to match your calorie burning potential according to your genetic profile.  The routines are easy to learn from watching the online videos and you can do them at home (with your favorite music or even while you watch TV) or at the gym.

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The modern life is a busy one, fully of phone calls, video conferences, driving to and from appointments, meetings, social gatherings, sleep, eat quick meals and all the other ways we’ve adapted to the conditions of modern life. With all of these things going on, it may seem difficult to create time in your schedule for exercise. But just like with most things, when there is a will there is a way. You’ll have to decide whether or not exercise is important enough to push some of the other things out of the way, and if your goal is to lose weight and get healthy, it should be important enough.

The good news is that the GenoVive custom exercise program does not need to take up that much of your time, only up to an hour a day. Most of the exercises can be done in the comfort of your own home by walking in your neighborhood or adapted for use at your gym. Not only that, but they are customized to work at your own level of fitness and designed to teach you about the right intensity of exercise that works best for you. If you have concerns about your ability to do a particular exercise, you should skip it or start slowly with other exercises as you build strength. And always speak with your physician first before starting a new exercise routine.

If you still think that you don’t have the time in your schedule to exercise, it’s time to evaluate the time you spend more carefully. Write down everything that you do in a day on a daily planner or spreadsheet. Evaluate each item and give it a level of importance. Obviously items like sleep, eating, and working are essential, but there are probably some things on there that you simply can do without. Maybe cut out that daily trip to the coffee shop. Or instead of watching your favorite show on the couch, watch it while walking on the treadmill.

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Exercise can be fun, and if you don’t believe it, you’ve probably been going about it the wrong way. The reason that exercise can be a chore for many people is because they approach it as a job they hate. They go out to the gym or out for a run and they hate every minute of it, but they keep going because it is helping them lose weight and get in shape. For some people, that is the only motivation they need to keep exercising, but for others, the prospect of losing weight alone isn’t enough to get them through the rigors that exercise often comes with.

The best way to create motivation is to make exercise fun. What makes a fun physical activity is usually pretty unique amongst individuals. For some people, simply doing their custom exercise program with a friend or family member is enough to keep them entertained and motivated. For others, joining an aerobic or cycling class at a gym is a great opportunity to create structure and motivation to keep coming back. Active sports like soccer, tennis and skating can be a powerful motivator through aspects of competition and team camaraderie.

Some people have a hard time staying motivated to exercise because they simply don’t know if they are going in the right direction. This is especially true of many people joining the gym for the first time. With so many exercise machines, weight machines, free weights and other mechanisms around, it’s hard to know where to begin. What works for one person in the gym may not work for another. That is why the customized exercise program from GenoVive is an invaluable tool in helping you on the path of exercise that will actually help you see results.

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We as humans are very social creatures. Any activity we participate in is inherently more entertaining and motivating when we participate in it with others. Exercise is especially affected by this. When we work out with other people who have similar fitness goals to ourselves, it provides the motivation and accountability to keep going through all of the difficult times and instances when we would just rather quit and sit back down on the couch.

Finding a fitness partner can be difficult, however. If you want to play sports, finding a team and being part of a group of people with similar goals is easy, but if you plan on doing traditional exercises in a gym or at home, finding others requires a bit more planning and effort. If you have friends or family who are also trying to lose weight and are going to gym, make arrangements to go together. Having someone you care about and that cares about you while you work out will make the experience fun and will keep you motivated.

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Getting enough exercise within a daily routine is a struggle for a lot of people. Between work, chores and errands there is sometimes just not enough time in the day to get a good workout. Thankfully with the rise of modern technology, specifically video, exercising at home has become easier and more fun than ever. Nearly every game console on the market today has fitness games that allow people to get a great workout in the comfort of their own home. Exercise games come in a variety of styles and mechanics.

Video games might offer several solutions to the problems people have with exercise, motivation being the most important. Games give an additional source of motivation that don't exist within traditional modes of exercise. This motivation comes through the excitement within the game, visual tracking and goals within the game universe and immediate rewards that don't directly correspond with weight loss. All of these factors greatly increase the chance that you will be motivated to exercise because you will be losing weight and having fun at the same time.

If video games aren't your thing there are still lots of workout videos on the market to suit your needs. Try to find a program that includes most of the exercises you learned through your customized exercise plan through Genovive. Those particular exercises are optimized to help you get fit and lose weight and will help you see the best results. Exercise video can be used in conjunction with certain equipment or with just yourself, a wall and a floor mat. A good workout video should be entertaining and keep you motivated so that you can stay consistent with your exercise.

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Don't cut your workout routine short by skipping the cool down - it's important.  GenoVive's fitness expert, Travis Steffen of Workout Box explains the benefits of the cool down in this video.

One of the principal laws of nature is that it is much harder to get something started than it is to keep it going. This exhibits itself all throughout our lives. For example, it takes more energy to get a car going from stop that it does to go a steady speed.  It’s also much harder for most people to start a project than to keep it going. This concept is just as true for exercising as it is for other things. Starting an exercise routine can be a bit difficult, but once you get going exercise can become a normal and easy going part of life.

You custom exercise program should become part of your normal routine so that it becomes habit. The first few days or weeks can be difficult, but the custom exercise plans developed by Genovive take into account all sorts of fitness levels, allowing even the most novice exerciser access to a system that will allow them to get in shape.  The program is designed to gradually but effectively introduce you to exercise that will have you feeling great and burning fat. Plans also account for people who consider themselves advanced as well with lots of high intensity exercises that will make you sweat and burn lots of calories.

Once you start working out on a regular basis, exercise becomes a slippery slope. You will be shocked at how fast you get into shape and start doing more and more intense exercises for longer and longer times. You’ll also be amazed at how good exercise makes you feel, especially right after a workout. Endorphins in the body get created when you have an intense workout and tickle a lot of pleasure centers in your brain. You’ll be surprised at how quickly you become addicted to working out and you will find yourself craving workouts even on your day off. This is when the pounds really start to come off.

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