Working Exercise into Your Busy Schedule

Not having enough time in the day is probably one of the biggest excuses out there, when it comes to exercise. People who are trying to lose weight, or improve their overall health, state that they would love to be able to fit exercise into their day, but they just simply do not have the time. Well it's time for you to stop making excuses, and start getting creative and thinking of ways that you could fit exercise into your hectic schedule. I have come up with 5 different ways to squeeze exercises into your everyday life.

1. Walk instead of Driving when possible.
If you need to take a quick run to the supermarket, or down to the corner store and you decide to drive the 2 min instead of walking you're losing out on a perfect opportunity to get some much needed exercise.

2.Exercise while watching television
At some point during the day we all sit down and watch a couple of hours of television, why not get a stationary bike, or treadmill, and do just 30 min of exercise while watching your favorite shows. This is great because you are exercising and your shows will distract you so you wont even notice the time go by.

3.Take the stairs instead of the elevator
If you work at a building that has an elevator, instead of using it head for the stairs. This will give you a great bit of exercise especially first thing in the morning.

4.Use your break times to walk around
As soon as a break hits, we're off to the break room to sit down and read the paper. If your looking to squeeze some exercise into your day you can simply use these break times to walk around the office, or go outside and walk around the block.

5. Workout to an exercise video
A lot of people work all day and then by the time they get home are so wiped out that they no longer have the motivation to exercise. You can change this by simply waking up 10-15 min earlier in the day, slipping an aerobics/exercise tape/CD into the player and jump starting your morning with a good 15 min of medium intensity exercise.

These are just a few of the ideas that I came up with off the top of my head, just remember that where there is a will there is a way. Sometimes adding exercise into our schedules will require a little bit of sacrifice, but it should be nothing your not already used to by now.