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.
