The #1 Excuse I hear for Not Exercising is… “But Anne, I’m so busy! I have no time to workout!”
Finding extra time in your day for working out might be one of those challenges that you have given up on. I mean, how can you eliminate or decrease the demands of your job, your children, your spouse…and your life in general? Sure you can adjust your life here and there for a few extra minutes of breathing room.
…But what can you do to free up a significant chunk of time?
…And are you ready to use that time for a workout?
Since I have also been looking to eliminate tasks that were chewing up my own precious time, I decided to do a little self-analysis to show you how it’s done…and also reveal the outcome from all my changes. (Plus, I’ll admit, I wanted to play with my Keynote presentation software to do that!)
Check out this video and find out how I identified my top time wasting tasks and automated or streamlined each one of them…and ended up with chunks of time that I could use doing the things that I’m really passionate about–or play around with new software!
Too Busy To Workout? from Anne Samoilov on Vimeo.
So, now you’ve seen what I did to increase the “free” time in my day…
Now, it’s your turn to create time for your workout.
Here are some likely offenders that are filling up your time but you could be doing differently….(notice how I didn’t say STOP DOING THIS!)
- Checking Email & Responding All The Time
- Checking/Updating Facebook, Twitter, MySpace All The Time
- Going to the Grocery store every single day for 1 or 2 items
- Paying bills piecemeal over the month instead of in chunks or online.
- Watching too much tv…anyone thought of working out in front of the tv?
If you decrease each of these items by even 5 or 10 minutes, (in no time) you’ll have 30 minutes to use for working out or some other physical activity!
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Looking forward to hearing your feedback and finding out how much time you created!
Very good ideas. Hopefully I can work these ideas into other areas I am trying to change.
You gotta make time for yourself. No excuses. I know it’s easy for me to say, but even I have to remind myself to get away from the computer, go for a walk or just get some fresh air!
I totally agree with you on the excuse front, but wouldn't you also agree that after 8 hour work day we do need to unwind and don't necessarily want to work more? You are right though saying that taking a bare 5-10 minutes from each of that unwinding activity we would end up with a good 30mins for a workout.
So many people do work those long hours…including my husband…so I know how it is when you get home and just don't have it in you to workout or do anything but collapse. I used to do the same thing… I should have added that getting the activity in when you have the energy — earlier in the day — might help for someone who works longs hours. And the side effect will be, more energy to make it through the crazy schedule for film production. Sometimes just taking those 5 minutes and stretching gets you through the rest of the day too!
great article,i got a lot of useful information. will let you know how it works out.