Luxurious

Many of us are pressed for time.  My industry is full of ideas on How to Be Super Double Awesome in Ten Seconds A Day!!!!  The struggle is real.  We all have to figure out how to commute, work, take care of the kids, eat, run errands, maybe sleep sometimes, and, oh yeah, be human.  Time for fitness seems like some kind of myth, either the good kind, like an escape to a desert island with yummy coconuts, or the bad kind, like some sort of punishment with flames and an endless lack of parking spaces.

It is absolutely true that fitness doesn’t have to take forever.  Half an hour a day, even in ten-minute chunks, is enough.  Just move.

However, it can be incredibly luxurious to have a real chunk of time for fitness.  Maybe, by some miracle, we find a free weekend morning.  I’m sure we can all think of things we could or should do with that time, but if we choose fitness, we have a real opportunity.

There is a satisfaction to be had in doing all the steps.  So often we skimp on the warm-up or the stretching.  We have to choose between our cardio and our weight lifting.  Even during our weight lifting, we don’t want to “waste” time resting between sets.

Maybe, every once in a while, it’s worth it to grab a buddy and go.  Do the cardio and then trade off sets of lifting.  Egg each other on and spot each other.  Help each other do those little things we all know we are supposed to be doing (hello there, myofascial release!) but continually put off.  Take turns stretching each other.

It could be fun.