When you’re living a hectic lifestyle, keeping fit can seem like an unachievable goal especially if you are constantly ‘time poor’. If running a business, climbing the career ladder or caring for the people around you means you rarely have any time for yourself, it’s essential to find effective ways to stay fit…even when you’re super busy!
No matter how packed your schedule is, the health benefits associated with staying fit can’t be overlooked. To make sure you can prioritise your wellbeing AND fulfill your other obligations, take a look at these top tips for staying fit when you’re super busy:
Set clear goals
As the saying goes, ‘If you want something done, ask a busy person’. People who are always on the go invariably get a lot done, so setting clear fitness goals will enable you to factor the relevant training into your schedule.
For entrepreneurs and Type A personalities, this approach can be one of the most effective ways to prioritise staying fit. When you’re striving towards a particular fitness objective, incorporating regular exercise into your routine won’t seem like something you can avoid. Instead, you’ll be motivated to embrace the challenges and inspired to achieve your goals.
Train the right way
If you don’t notice any positive benefits when you exercise, you might be training in the wrong way. Although any type of exercise can be beneficial, you’ll need to engage in the right type of training if you want to enhance particular areas of your health or achieve certain goals. With personal training, you can access bespoke advice and training plans, which are tailored towards your lifestyle and your unique aims. What’s more, individual training enables you to compress longer workouts into a shorter timeframe. If you need to make fitness work with a busy schedule, this is a sure-fire way to do it.
Stay hydrated
We all know that drinking water is good for us but staying hydrated can be tricky, particularly if you’re busy running a business, for example, throughout the day and it isn’t always the first thing on your mind. However, drinking too little can result in feelings of sluggishness and headaches, so it’s important to increase your water intake and consume a healthy amount each day. With a reusable, insulated water bottle, you can ensure you’ve got a cool, refreshing drink with you wherever you go and added fruit infusions make it even easier to stay healthy.
Get some rest
When you’re constantly busy, your body doesn’t have time to repair itself from the everyday strain it’s under. If poor quality sleep is affecting you, it’s vital to take steps to remedy it. Try yoga, mindfulness or meditation to help you relax in the evening and switch your screens off at least an hour before you want to fall asleep. With an improved sleep hygiene routine, you can enhance the quality of your sleep and help your body to stay fitter for longer.
Carry healthy snacks
If you’re regularly running from one meeting to another or you find that you’re too busy to eat, you could inadvertently be harming your health. When we go for long periods of time without consuming anything, it affects our blood sugar levels and can cause you to feel shaky, faint and tired. What’s more, failing to eat regularly means you’re more likely to binge on junk food when you do get the chance to eat. By carrying healthy snacks with you, however, you can keep your body topped up with goodness throughout the day. As well as ensuring you get your recommended daily intake of essential nutrients and vitamins, having healthy snacks at hand will mean you won’t run out of energy quite so often. We tend to think and function better when our bodies have the fuel they need, so eating healthy snacks can help you to operate more effectively in all areas of your life. In addition to this, consuming a healthy snack can count towards your daily intake of fruit and veggies, which means you’ll be embracing a healthier diet at the same time.
Make Fitness a Top Priority
Overlooking your health and well being doesn’t mean you’ll have more time to focus on other areas of your life. In fact, the opposite is true. When you prioritise fitness and health, you’ll feel more able to cope with anything else that’s going on in your life. As a result, regular training sessions will give you the energy, focus and motivation to stay alert, active and accountable at work, at home and at play.
TDP x
