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First Steps From Sedentary Lifestyle To Exercise By Richard Clarke On January 04, 2012 The first few steps from a sedentary lifestyle to exercise are the hardest. For many people activities such as walking to the chip shop can be seen as daunting and difficult. So to change that attitude from lounging round the house watching TV mixed with a bad diet of fast foot and to an improved diet made up of good meals and healthy snacks along with actually going out and exercising may seem unlikely. The good thing is you are viewing this content as a member of Fit Body Academy so clearly something has changed if you did fall under the sedentary bracket! So first of all Well done! So why the change? I will touch upon a model known as the Behaviour change model, this is made up of 5 distinct phases in most cases: 1. Pre-contemplation 2. Contemplation 3. Preparation 4. Action 5. Maintenance I will discuss the first few stages as we are only in month 1 and you don’t want to be swamped with ...