Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up. My name is Brock Armstrong, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

I recently received an email from a listener who said, I just found your podcast and YouTube channel, and I really appreciate your work.

But here's the problem. I haven't really

exercised since I was in college, and I don't know where to start. Every time I have started a

workout program in the past few years, I have ended up injured or frustrated or both. Can you help?

I understand this listener's dilemma completely. It is a

complaint that I've encountered as an endurance coach and from the people who are just starting

the wayless program as well. They either haven't ever really been interested in exercise and are

suddenly faced with a doctor telling them that they need

to get in shape or else, or they were fit many years ago, but once their high school volleyball

team or their college hockey league was done, well, they never found a replacement for it.

Now these are similar but slightly different issues. Number one is never being fit or

interest in being fit, and that can lead to not knowing where to start, and the other one is

having been previously fit, but letting it slide for several years, and that can lead to trying to

jump back in where you left off. Now, the good news is that both of these

issues can be addressed by adopting the same mindsets. And the first mindset is start where you are.

In a previous Get Fit Guy podcast called How Functional Movement Screening can turn your

weaknesses into strengths, I wrote about a test that

can identify what areas of fitness you may want to work on first. Chances are, if you're listening

to this podcast right now, you aren't a complete couch potato, so me telling you to simply move

more is not going to help. So these types of tests can give you a good indication of where you need to start.

But even more important than physically identifying the gaps in your overall fitness

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