The word on the street or streets (I don’t know any more, found out this week I am not all that hip with it any more) is that people don’t have enough time to get in shape. I have been told that the biggest reason that people don’t get a workout in each week is because of time. Now I have not looked that statistic up, but it sounds about right.
One thing I took from an economics class back in my college days was that time is the most valuable commodity out there. Time is something that you don’t get back. There are 24 hours in a day and 8 of those hours go to sleep and 8 more for work and for the fun of it lets say you have to travel and you stay a little late at work because, well you like it so much, so lets say that’s another 2 hours. If my math is correct that only leaves 6 hours of free time for “you time”.
And that’s assuming you are living the bachelor or bachelorette life style, if you have kids, I am guessing it’s somewhere between 2 and 0 hours of free time (I don’t have kids so if you do let me know if I am correct on this one). And if I have episodes of Golden Girls (put in favorite TV show) to catch up on, then how in the hell am I supposed to find time to watch TV, eat, shit, and workout?
Since I study, eat and breathe all that is steel plates and barbells, you would think I wouldn’t have this problem of finding time to lift. Well, it is true that I am at a gym for a good 9 hours out of my day. But the last thing I want to do is workout after a long day at the place I was just at for the last 9 hours.
It’s not because I don’t like being there, in fact I love my job, have not worked a day yet. So how do I find time, well I don’t find time, I make time. I do this by shear magic and having the ability to make small miracles happen, like creating more time.
Even though the ability to create time would be awesome I unfortunately can’t, sorry for getting your hopes up, but what I can do is make it a priority. That is why it is one of the first things I do before going to work (wait, that does not make sense because I workout at my work, forget it, you know what I mean). If you care about something you love you don’t just find time, you make time.
In this case that something you love is you, If you don’t love you some you then there is something wrong with you.
If your significant other asked to go out to eat do you say, “I’ll find sometime to do it” or do you say, “I’ll make time to do it”. Which one sounds better? It should be a no brainer. Of course it’s the second answer. It’s saying that you care about them and if it’s something you care about, you will put aside everything else just to be with them.
If your health and quality of life is something that you care about, you make time. To get the benefits of an exercise program all you really need is 30 minutes three times a week. A whopping 90 minutes a week. This isn’t to say you will look like a fitness model if you do this but you
will be healthier for it.
We all have 30 minutes in our day to do something that will help out our heath in the long run. If you can’t find time then make time, if that does not work then congratulations you must be the busiest most productive person on the face of this luscious green planet, and I would like to meet you.
Next week I will give you a few different ways that you can get a kick ass workout in less than 30 minutes. In the mean time, make some time in your busy schedules to get out and do something good for you and your health.
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