Not Enough Time to Exercise?

For those of you who follow me on Instagram, you’ve already seen my post about this but I want to dig deeper here. (If you want to be up to date on my daily life, check out my Instagram here.) Today, it’s all about the worst excuse of them all: “I haven’t got time to work out!”

I don’t get sick very often. Actually, I promised myself to never catch a cold again. Unfortunately, this didn’t work so well last Christmas. Let’s blame the stress but who cares. The point is that I couldn’t exercise these couple of days. Even though I missed it, I loved how much more time I had.
Now, I can understand the excuse of not having enough time a bit better. Just a bit – because time isn’t a good reason not to work out.

Yes, exercising takes some time but every activity does.
I’m pretty busy (and so are you) but I refuse to think that sport steals my time. And exactly this is the key to another attitude.

Exercising (or being active) is not wasted time. It is time you invest. That’s what most people don’t understand.

Money that you spend on useless things is wasted money. But money that you use to buy a property is an investment.

Try to apply this way of thinking to the sports topic.

Time spent in front of the TV is wasted time. Time you spend doing a workout is an investment of time.

Why?

→Time spent in front of the TV gets you nowhere. In contrast, sport rewards you.
Firstly, you are healthier und therefore have a bigger chance to maintain that health. Who doesn’t fear diseases and death? You become fit and strong and your immune system does so, too.

→Furthermore, exercising clears your mind. Sometimes the thoughts in your head can get a bit overwhelming. Everybody deals with that problem. We need to silence them and everybody has their own way to do so. Find yours, but find a healthy one! Some people escape reality with the help of drugs. But sport can have the same effect like medicine and it is healthy though! Sport isn’t just a physical thing; in most parts it’s mental.

→Last but not least, exercising makes you more productive. Your concentration and performance in general gets better.

Sport Is an Investment of Time

Let’s hop back to our TV metaphor: I don’t want to say that you shouldn’t own a TV anymore. The point is to set your priorities correctly. Thinking that you haven’t got time for a workout is just wrong.
You can’t get everything done that you should in one day. But that’s not what it’s about. It’s about doing the things that are important! Rearrange your priorities. Of course, we can’t make time for a workout if our phone and TV is more important to us than our health.
But when you rearrange things correctly, you can do the most important things smoothly in one day.

Write ‚activity‘ on your to-do list every day – even when you’re sick! Of course, you can’t smash out a super intense workout then but a walk will do it as well.

And for those of you, who still think they struggle with time management (and of course for everyone else as well), I recommend HIIT. If you are interested in this topic, you can read more about HIIT here.