Finding Time to Exercise - Fitting Exercise Into a Busy Life

Some days it feels like you barely have time to stop and breath, let alone to fit in a workout! With the fast-paced lifestyle that so many of us live today finding time to exercise often gets pushed to the back burner. The good news is that you can still squeeze a workout in now matter how busy your day. Here are some tips on fitting exercise into a busy life.

Break Up Your Workout

Working out for 5-10 minutes at a time several times a day can still give you as good of results as doing one bigger workout all at once. A lot of times it is much easier to find a few small chunks of time each day rather than one large one. See if you can squeeze in a quick 5 minute workout in the morning, one when you get home from work and another fast one before bed.

Move More

You can still get the benefit of exercise without having to have a set workout time or routine that you do each day. Instead, focus on making yourself move more during the day. Simple things like parking further away from the store so you have to walk a little more and taking the stairs at work can really make a big difference in your daily calorie burn.

Stuck in traffic? Try squeezing and holding your stomach muscles or your buttocks. You can even do this at the office while you are sitting in your chair at your desk. Really focus on using those muscles and you can get a great isometric workout that can start to lift your rear and shape your stomach.

When you take a bathroom break during the day take a minute to do some bicep curls. Even without weights you can really work the muscle as long as you concentrate and have good form.
While you are standing at the counter cooking or making dinner in the evening try doing some of these really effective butt/outer thigh moves: Standing straight, take one of your feet and place it behind the heel of the other foot so that your arch is touching the heel of the front foot. Your feet should form the shape of a "T" with the outside of the back ankle pointing almost toward the wall behind you. Gently lift your back leg out toward the wall behind you and squeeze your butt muscles at the same time. Return back to your starting position. Repeat until it starts to burn pretty good and then switch to the other leg. This is a great way to multi-task - you get dinner made and at the same time you get a nice, tight rear view!

You don't need a set time each day to workout to get the benefits of exercise. By becoming more active in your day-to-day life and adding small bursts of exercise throughout the day you can still start to see the results you have been wanting. Really push yourself to see just how much "extra" you can fit into each day and use your creativity to find fun ways to incorporate easy moves you can do anywhere.

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