Joan Price: Book Review: Fitness Instinct

"Fitness trainers and exercise experts have made fitness harder than it really is, thus robbing you of your own intuitive know- how," writes Peg Jordan, fitness expert, editor of American Fitness magazine, and columnist for iVillage. In this book, she aims to help connect us with our own intuitive understanding about how our bodies want to move, introduce us to movement styles of different cultures, and integrate it all with modern research.

Fitness Instinct helps you put "the 'fit' back in fitness." Jordan presents an 11-step plan that will help you individualize your movement plan so that it gives you joy and satisfaction:

Get to know yourself: Different movement modes suit different people.
Learn the truth: Let go of distorted body perceptions, unrealistic expectations, and myths about fitness.
Believe in yourself: Let go of self-sabotaging thinking.
Relax, rest, and rejuvenate: Learn how to get into a mindful, centered, restful, contemplative state.
Listen to your body: Awaken your "seventh sense," which is "your natural instinct for movement."
Let time move you: Learn your own energy cycle and which moves are best for which times.
Move with flow: Learn how to "tap into flow states while you're moving."
Move in spurts: Instead of devoting one vigorous half-hour or hour a day to exercise, learn to move in "spurts" all day long.
Find hidden inspiration: Use your "natural inspiration and intuition" to guide your moves.
Overflow with motivation: Learn to use rewards, goals, and mindfulness to get yourself moving.
Stay realistic: Forego wishful thinking and learn which quick fixes really work.