We live in a very busy fast paced world and maintaining our health and wellness can be somewhat of a challenge. Staying healthy should be a one of our top priorities if we want to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle as we age but when you throw in kids, school, crazy work hours and demands as well as home life its sometimes hard to figure out how the hell exercise and being healthy is going to fit in. A lot of the time its just easier to let it take a back seat or put it in the to hard or will start when I have time basket!
This is the last thing you should do as there is plenty of research out there that shows exercise and being healthy increases energy, improves mood, wards off fatigue, helps with depression, lowers blood pressure and stress levels and helps you get through your day.
So how do we fit a health and fitness plan into our busy schedules and lives? Here are my top tips for adding a health and wellness plan into your daily life:
- Become a morning person. The benefits of exercising in the morning are endless, you get your metabolism cranking and you give yourself energy for the day ahead. Also exercising in the morning means nothing can come up during the day that will derail your exercise plans as it’s already done!! Not a morning person? Give it a try for 3 weeks and you will adjust as your body becomes used to the am and before long you will forget that you didn’t used to like getting up early to exercise!
- Workout more efficiently. You don’t need to go to the gym for 2 hours at a time and sit on the treadmill forever!! High Intensity exercise is the time poor persons savior, it can be done anywhere with any exercises and gets great results in minimal time. Elevating your heart rate above where your comfortable is the key and as little as 10min can have a great effect.
- Make a date…. exercise and being healthy is as important (if not more important) as work meetings and any other dates you have SO BLOCK IT IN YOUR DIARY OR CALENDAR and stick to it just like you would any other meeting or appointment you put in there. Spend a few minutes on Sunday planning and blocking out your times you will exercise or go to the gym and hold yourself accountable to them.
- Workout on the way to work. Instead of driving all the way to the car park or getting your train or tram as close to work as possible park or get off 10-15min before and walk the rest of the way. You have just added 30 min of exercise to your day without even needing to get to the gym. As a bonus when you get to work if you have stairs take them a few times for an added leg workout.
- Exercise during your lunch break. There are so many options for exercising during lunch and a lot of work places are pro this as it improves productivity. Hit the gym, do a quick session in the park or go for a walk especially now the weather is starting to improve. Get other people in your workplace involved and hold each other accountable as well! Hit your boss up about a work place health program if you don’t have one!
- Include the kids. Get the kids out side with you and have some fun, run around, play, laugh and just get moving. Strap the kids in a carrier as you go for a walk to add resistance and stop every now and then to do squats. You will adapt and get stronger and as the baby grows so will your resistance!!
What to take from this?
You don’t need hours and hours to exercise and fit being healthy into a busy schedule. There are so many people out there that juggle massive workloads and schedules and still find the time to stay healthy and exercise!
What do they all have in common? They make their health a priority and commit to fitting it in and being healthy no matter what and they reap the rewards. Commit to leading a healthier lifestyle and don’t settle for anything less than that!
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