Office Workouts Help You Find the Time for Fitness

Let’s be honest, when something is really important to us we find a way to fit it into our life, at least in small doses anyways. It's all about prioritizing. If your life right now is chronically busy and over scheduled, you need to decide whether or not it’s important to spend some time and energy on physical activity, even if that means taking time and energy away from other things you do. It can also mean finding those pockets of time during your day to fit fitness in your schedule. That can be as easy as utilizing one of the office workouts on Make It Fit during your lunch break or woking a walk into your morning or evening routine.

When you’re relaxed and clear-minded, use the following numbers to rate your motivation to get or stay active. (When you think about “regular” activity, envision a type and amount of exercise that feels realistic to you – even if it’s only a few minutes per day more than what you’re doing now.)

1: Definitely do not want to be more active
2: Not very motivated at all; low priority
3: A little motivated; low to medium priority
4: Somewhat motivated; low-medium priority
5: Fairly motivated, at least most of the time; med priority
6: Motivated; one of my high priorities
7: Very motivated; high priority
8: Extremely motivated: will do whatever it takes

If you rated yourself below a “5”, exercise may not be a big enough priority in your life for you to expect to be able to find time for it on a regular basis. Your best bet is to do some “thinking” work that may make you feel more emotionally committed to physical fitness before you set an action goal.

If you rated yourself a “5” or above, then you probably just need a few practical suggestions for fitting fitness into your busy schedule. Check back with us next time when we will give you some suggestions on how to find time and motivation for fitness based on your score in this exercise.