The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marxist and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

The 10 Rules of Successful Exercise.

Regular physical activity is important and everyone pretty much agrees, but life gets in the way.

Most of us end up trying to fit exercise in around a busy schedule, rich and sedentary behaviors.

We are sitting all the time. We are spending countless hours at jobs we may not necessarily love. Responsibilities

pile up and time slips away before we notice it was even here. We need to make our exercise count.

We need to get it right. So today, I'm going to lay out the 10 most important rules for successful exercise.

These are the rules I use to form my exercise philosophy.

These 10 items have helped me get fitter, healthier, and happier than I ever was as a professional athlete.

And I think they'll help you out, too.

You might not need to follow all 10 rules, and not all rules apply to all training regimes.

That's fine.

But in my experience, both personally and as a coach, the people who get the most out of their workouts

adhere to most of these rules.

Do the thing you love.

Some fitness people like to talk tough.

They'll say things like pain is weakness, leaving the body, or if you're enjoying yourself,

you're not training.

I get where they're coming from, because hitting the truly elite levels of performance

does require enduring pain

and sacrifice and unpleasantness and, frankly, momentary bouts of abject misery. But even the triathletes

subjecting themselves to crippling pain do so out of love. There's some hate there too,

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