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Have you ever thought or said that you don’t have time to workout? That your work, family, social life, hobbies or anything else consumes a lot of your time and because of that you don’t have time for yourself?
With the fast pace of life today, it’s normal that good management of our free time is a challenge.
Sometimes, to have time, we just need to be flexible and change our routine.
Exercise is key, and you shouldn’t stop doing it just because you have little time, a tight schedule or a busy life.
In this article I’ll give you the 10 best tips that will help you to find the time to workout and to optimize your time!
Are you ready?
10 tips to find the time to workout
Set your alarm clock earlier
Sleeping is fundamental for our body to recover. During this time, several fundamental biological processes occur, to ensure the proper functioning of our body.
Without sacrificing a good night’s sleep (by lying down a little earlier, for example) why not set the alarm clock to do sit-ups, crunches, or a morning run? Or why not do a HIIT training, which doesn’t take up too much time and is possible to do at home or on the street?
See what HIIT training is and what you can do!
This way, you start your day with more energy (the so-called morning boost) and accelerate your metabolism in the morning.
Mark the calendar and make exercise part of your daily routine
Not having time is one of the most common excuses in our day-to-day life.
To prevent this from happening, organize your time and mark on the calendar (or on your phone) one hour of your day to workout. You can always set a reminder or use a sports application that reminds you that it’s time to workout.
Define your goals
Having goals is a way to have extra motivation to workout. Training can’t just be to “spend time”, because it would be more difficult to stay motivated.
Why not try to improve training after training? Increase the number of repetitions, increase the weight that you lift, increase the running time on the treadmill … or do a Cross Training training, for example!
It’s becoming more fashionable and is a good way to overcome yourself. Find out everything you need to know about Cross Training before starting!
Take advantage of lunch time to workout
Do you have about an hour for lunch?
During this time you can always go to the gym to do an intense yet fast workout or running, walking … After an intense workout your body will continue to burn calories even while you’re at rest, which means that you’ll burn calories and recover while you’re working.
Did you know that only 30 minutes of exercise per day allows a significant improvement in your health?
Enjoy the outdoors
If you already spend many hours at work, at school, at home, or elsewhere, or if the gym is far away from your work or home and you want to exercise but you don’t have much time or you don’t want to go to a gym, then the street is a great option.
Training outdoors, among other things, is healthier, gives you more freedom, allows you to get to know new places, enjoy the landscape, helps to combat depressive feelings, increases energy levels and is more economical.
Find out more about this in the article about the difference between street training and gym training!
Even if you don’t have a Personal Trainer, you can always use an application that allows you to count the steps and miles that you’ve already done, or to record a training, so that you can overcome yourself.
Workout in the living room
If you can’t, or don’t like to go to the gym, or if you don’t want to miss an episode of that series that you like so much, then you can always workout at home while watching television (during the show, or you can always do it during the break).
The options are several: you can do push ups, couch tricep dips, squats, sit ups, jumps, concentration curl or you can even do a Tabata training, which is one of the most famous HIIT trainings, as you can see in the article about HIIT training.
Avoid the elevator. Use the stairs
By abdicating the elevator or moving staircases, you are exercising your body more than you think.
You are training your cardiovascular endurance and several muscles, such as the quadriceps, glutes, or hamstrings.
Do you want to make it even harder? Try to take two steps at a time!
Walk faster and faster
If you don’t like to run or if you can’t run (due to some pathology, for example) then it’s an option to walk faster (it will help you to improve your cardiovascular endurance).
Walking is a good alternative to transports! Therefore, during your journeys, walk whenever you can.
Try to go for a walk alternating 1 minute of walking at a normal pace and 3 minutes of walking fast. You’ll see the results appear!
If you have pathologies that prevent you from doing certain exercises, talk to a personal trainer or a health professional who can help you!
Seize opportunities to workout in a short period of time
The so-called dead times, such as the times when we’re waiting for public transport, hitchhiking, or waiting for the light to turn green to cross the street, are good opportunities to exercise.
Don’t worry about what others might think when they see you doing lunges or squats or lifting and lowering your heels off the ground, more important is that you’re in shape and feeling good!
Socialize while exercising
Having a social life is important. And you shouldn’t stop doing it because you have little time, nor should you stop doing it to workout.
If you don’t want to compromise your social life but want to exercise and have little time, why not share the workout experience? You can always combine a trip to the gym, or take a group lesson or a street run with friends.
Or instead of just going out to dinner, why not train an hour before, and then enjoy your meal?
As you can see, finding time to workout is a challenge, but it’s simple, isn’t it?
When you identify a problem, don’t make excuses, always give solutions!
Lack of time is very common, but don’t let it be a problem without solution!
Even if you can’t follow all these advices, depending on the situation you’re in, there’s always an alternative.
As you could see regarding physical exercise, we can always improve our health or physical condition. At home, at the gym, outdoors, with friends, more quickly and intensely, changing some routines, we must always invest in ourselves to stay healthy and to feel good while the years go by.
Even if the results don’t appear quickly because your body has to adapt, sooner or later your body will get used to it, it will start working in unison and you will see the results appear.
Good training ?
