Short on Time?

This time of year exercise and fitness usually stays for those who really have made it a lifestyle. Yet, if you’ve experienced several hurdles strung together or a lot of travel or meetings disrupting your usual routine even the best of us get off track if we miss several days in a row. Here’s one fun way to cope and make this month one which gives you traction against your goals still. Dec to be an inspired exercise month i’ve oddly always found. I really like uplifted spirits and child-like twinkle in everyone’s optical eye. In January with the risk of more a few months of winter no vacation fun i struggle more!

Play the 20-minute exercise obstruct game beside me. Here’s how it operates you may use 20 minutes of your time any real way you want to utilize it. You nevertheless still need to plan your exercise with hard times, easy days, and off days. During these active times though using brief blocks of your time is a mental game that can help you earn the physical season. If you know you only have 20 minutes its a lot simpler to focus. If you’re feeling like you want to get the most out of it instead of you have at all times in the world you’re so much more likely to enjoy it. It reframes the whole experience.

Here’s how an hour might look:

20 of cardio

20 of yoga

20 of strength training

But that’s just one option.

You can do 60 minutes of any one activity. You can break up your exercise up in different times of day.

You can do 20 minutes of intervals, 20 minutes of strength, and later in the day do 20 minutes of yoga (or a combination of core and stretching).

Just plan your exercise intention and purpose for each 20 minutes.

If you’re focused on making the most of 20 minutes your time will fly. You also will make the absolute most of it.

Have you noticed as you have an hour to workout you tend to chat away or approach it with far less intensity and focus?

When you play this mental game you will makes every full minute count number and each exercise and repetition, whether it is an interval or a lifting weights exercise, you’re focused and far better.

20+20+20

20+40

40+20

20 only

40 only

60 - this is leaner intensity aerobic activity ideally, yoga or a more complete strength training session with an sufficient warm up longer, core work, and cool off of a bit more length

e.g.

5 minute cardio movement

5 minute leg swings or functional movement

ten minutes of Leg, Force, Draw exercises in rotation x 3

ten minutes of new leg, force, draw exercises in rotation x 3

ten minutes of biceps, triceps, shoulder exercises x 2 and any corrective ex.

ten minutes of core balance and exercises

ten minutes of light cardio cool off

I really do get asked what I really do. So here’s actually what I’ve done within the last two days because of some limited scheduling.

Yesterday I had developed an early visit so I did 20 minutes of intervals on the treadmill machine before 7am. Then I snuck in 20 minutes of an aerobic break from my home office at noon before lunch time. At the end of the afternoon while the fish was baking I did 20 minutes of yoga exercise.

This morning was another early one. I got in 40 minutes total of treadmill machine and core. I hope to lift weights for 20 minutes this evening but there’s a pile of work waiting on me and a snowy drive between me and the golf club that tells me it isn’t the best use of my time today.

Cheers to your intervals! Are you in? A Dec game for fitting it in do you will need?