Making Time To Workout

I was looking over my appointments for the upcoming week and there are lots of them. I have lots of personal training sessions with clients, business meetings, eye doctor appointment, etc. When I see my schedule getting totally full like that I know that there are a few more appointments I need to add. I need to make an appointment with myself for my workouts and that is exactly what I do.

I workout regularly but even I have to reevaluate when my schedule is full of appointments. It is very easy to look at all the things you have to do in a day or a week and simply say ‘I’m too busy to workout’. The fact of the matter is that it is the times when you are busy that you need to schedule your exercise and not blow it off. If you allow yourself to use this excuse than you may open the floodgates and start excusing off your workouts every time you have something else to do in a day.

Let’s think about it, if your child needs to go the doctor you make time and schedule it. Any given week we make sure we schedule time for relaxation, cleaning, TV shows, shopping, etc. so please someone tell me why we can’t use that same mindset to make sure we exercise.

I don’t want to sound like a cliché but if you don’t have enough time for exercise than you don’t have enough time. Also, lets not forget that exercise creates energy, it fuels our tank, we are capable of much more when we work out versus when we don’t. I know for a fact that I would not be able to handle everything I have to do in a week if I was not eating healthy food and getting in my exercise. I would be dragging.

In this business, I think that this is the hardest concept to drive home to people who are just getting started. People think that if they are busy then squeezing in a workout will only overwhelm them. The truth is that by squeezing in whatever exercise you can you will be in a better state of mind to tackle the rest of you day. Also, in a day full of stuff you have to do, shouldn’t you be doing something for yourself? Exercise is the perfect thing.

People new to exercise also do not seem to get the concept that if you are tired, exercise will make you feel better and more energized. I guess I can understand why people feel that way. Logically, you think that if you are tired you can’t work out. Once you do this for a while you realize that the exact opposite is true. This is something that is played out right before our eyes each and every day at the gym. People come in tired having just gotten out of bed at 5:00 in the morning or they come dragging in after a hard days work at 6:00 at night. But guess what? When these people leave the gym they are not dragging, they are no longer tired. It is like magic and it works every time.

So I would like to challenge you to really think about what you’ve been doing and what you could be doing. Look at your schedule and see where you can insert a couple of workouts per week and don’t say you are too busy! My circuit training workouts only take 30 minutes. I know you have 30 minutes! Visist www.exerciseforeverybody.com to check them out!