B's Three - Making Your Workout Fit Your Lifestyle

As we all are aware, one of the keys to staying fit is to work out consistently.  Often, having the discipline to work out consistently is difficult because “life gets in the way.”  The trick to preventing life blowing up your well-intentioned workout plans to choose a workout program schedule that fits your lifestyle.  Below are three ways to remove many of barriers / reasons / excuses we give ourselves for “falling off the wagon” when comes to exercise.     

1.       Choose the Right Venue – Although you may be hyper-motivated when you first start a new workout plan, don’t set yourself up for failure to choosing an inconvenient workout spot.  Ideally, the place you work out should be somewhere you have to go (or at least pass by) almost every day.  This will make it easier to exercise on the days your motivation is a little weak.  Also, if you work out home, you have to pick a space and time (see below) that your family can support as well.  If the “home team” is not happy with your workout program, you will not be able to stick with it consistently.  

2.       The Right Time - Don't convince yourself that you will behave against your nature to get your workouts in.  If you are a night owl, 4 am workouts will not work for you in the long term and “early birds” probably won’t have energy to stick with night workouts.  For those who have families and work out at home, you will need to choose a time that fits your family’s schedule as well.  Try to find that window of time that does not shake, rattle and roll the house while everyone is sleeping.  Also, you will want to choose a time in which your children cannot “participate” in your workouts.  My five-year old daughter is the cutest little girl in the world, but I find it difficult to do push-ups with her on my shoulders J 

 

3.       The Right Program – Finally, you should choose your workout program to fit not only the venue and time you have chosen, but also your schedule.  For example, if you travel a lot, your workout program can't rely on being in a specific place or using particular weights (unless you can bring them with you).  You will quickly become “too busy” to work out.    

Make it easier on yourself by choosing a workout program that works with you rather than against you.  Follow these tips and you will be well on your way to staying fit forever!