Thursday, September 6, 2012

How to Make Time for Fitness?

By Andrew van Ness


It seems like everyone is busy nowadays. The average US citizen works more than any other resident of an modern nation. This only adds extra stress on each other area of life too from family to health to fitness and exercise.



We eat fast food because it's quick and convenient in a time when everybody are exhausted and beat from work. We rarely spend some time with our families and bond as deep with the people we care about because we are always rushing to make progres on the continually expanding task list. And we often put off health and fitness in favor of momentary and instant comfort.



But that's not the right way to live your life. That's not how most of us envisioned our lives playing out.



Odds are you are fed up with your life. You're worn to the bone. You're fed up. And you do not really think that you have any spare time for exercising and fitness.



Well, you're wrong.



The way to make time is to turn something into a habit.



When something is a habit, you don't have to think about it. You do not have to work up the willpower to do it. You just do it.



There is not any effort concerned.



It's a bit like how you just wake up on Monday morning and go to your job regardless of whether or not you feel like it. You don't have to work up the effort to go to work. You do it.



And that's the way that you need to look at your fitness conditioning (or anything else that is important to you in your life). You treat it like a habit and simply automatically do it without trying to work up the motivation. Remove choice from the equation and commit to doing it.

Just make bodyweight training part of your routine.

Most people have a limited amount of will power and dicipline. We have a lot less than we think that we do. This implies that if you truly wish to do something consistently, you have got to make it a habit. You need to just do it automatically without thinking about it.



I'm of the opinion that it could appear like you are already stretched to the max, but we should be honest here. What quantity of the time you spend being "busy" is really just a form of procrastination or laziness?



If you can increase your real productive time by making other parts of your life a habit, you'll be able to turn fitness into a habit as well. Most people don't have a time problem, they have an energy and efficency problem.



Take breaks throughout the day to help you recenter yourself so you can keep your energy from dropping so that you can stay productive, consequently opening up more time to do other more critical things in your life. You'll probably also find that you have more energy when you take the time to exdercise and take care of your body.



If exercise is really something you think is important then prove it by turning it into a habit that you practice regularly.




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