What is the most common fitness mistake?

What is the most common fitness mistake?

John Spencer Ellis (Author, TV Show Host, Trainer and CEO, National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association) gives expert video advice on: What is the most common fitness mistake?; What is the difference between fitness and physical activity?; Why is exercise so important? and more...

The biggest mistake that I've seen again and again, year after year, is that people indulge in exercise because they have a specific task - "It's my 1 year reunion, my 2 year reunion, I have a wedding to go to, I'm going on a cruise" - and they get all excited and they say "I have to get in shape for this, I have to look good." That's not fitness, that's not what it's about; that's overindulging in an activity to attain an aesthetic difference. That may be important to them; however, in the grand scheme of things it's not that important. It's about understanding how to live a lifestyle to where you have an enhanced state of being everyday because you've done the right thing: you've slept right, you've eaten correctly, and you've exercised right. And everything comes together and you just live a higher state of self. Until someone gets there they have no idea how far they can go.