Are You Really Too Busy For Your Fitness Goals?
Okay let’s be honest if you are living in a big city like London, New York, Singapore, Madrid etc.
The chances are that you always feel like you are busy.
It’s the nature of modern life.
Even with lockdown in place, you probably work 50-60 hours per week.
This hectic busyness, starts off initially as a pride point, a badge of honour that you work harder than the next person but after a while chronic busyness can easily become the norm until we know no other way.
Before you know it you’ve become a victim of time and circumstances.
You might be telling yourself:
- ‘I’m too busy, I don’t have time to workout.’
- Or ‘I don’t have the time to think about food.’
Let’s unpack this right away.
Myth 1 – Time or Priorities?
You have the time, you know this already 🙂
You just choose to prioritise other things over your own health and wellbeing.
Sometimes it’s blatantly obvious things like giving too much attention to your Netflix subscription.
Other times it’s more subtle like not creating boundaries for what your working hours are and letting it just take over.
OR sometimes it’s randomly deciding that cleaning the house right away is the number 1 priority. Conveniently, this happened just as you were about to take some action towards your fitness & health 🙂
Now, it’s cool if you want to prioritise work/ financial income over your health. It is your life and you have the right to choose whatever makes you happy.
However, unfortunately when it comes to health it does eventually come to bite you in the bum and its always better to work towards health sooner rather than later.
Most of the people I work with are still pretty young so while you are probably not limping away due to a bad back, I bet you are starting to feel the early signs, with a few niggles here and there. Not to mention the mental lethargy from not moving as much as you’d like to.
I’m yet to meet a single person that once in the rhythm of things, doesn’t feel so much better as a result of their newly developed healthy habits.
The truth is, that if you don’t look after you now then you’ll be forced to do so later.
The difference is it will be harder to fix it the longer you leave it.
A longer journey with more unhealthy habits to break.
Still think you don’t have enough time?
Myth 2 – Overestimating how much time it takes to get results.
Whenever speaking with new clients about getting into shape, there is such a big misconception about how much time is needed per week to get results.
They think I spend hours on end every day training or am in the kitchen all day cooking.
This is what many people associate with optimum health.
No wonder you might be feeling overwhelmed with taking action.
What it actually comes down to is a classic case of quality over quantity.
For most people 3 quality sessions at 45 mins is plenty, IF done correctly and at a good intensity. (There’s training sorted)
Now food/ cooking, If you’re not spending all your money on deliveroo 🙂..then I bet you’re the type of person that will cook nearly every meal you eat; breakfast, lunch and dinner, that’s at least 60-90 minutes a day!
Super inefficient this is killing your time.
You’ve got 2 options:
- Order everything from Deliveroo ($$)
- Or learn to be more efficient and cook in batches
I won’t go into specific details in this blog but you get the idea.
As you can see after little digging. The time is there!
We just don’t manage it well, waste a lot of it and seriously overestimate how little of it we actually need to take control of our health & fitness.
Let’s break it down.
Every week has 168 hours.
I ask my clients for 3 of them.
That leaves 165 hours a week for everything else.
Let’s say you work 60 hours – you don’t, but let’s say you do, 56 hours for sleep (8 hours a day).
That still gives you 46 hours of precious free time.
And you’re looking after your body and mind.
So, if you’re someone that’s been thinking about getting started with your fitness for ages but still haven’t taken action.
I have 1 question for you.
Do you have 3 hours per week?
I think we know the answer is yes 🙂
If you’re overwhelmed and don’t know what to do let me help you.
Let’s have a conversation
Have a great day,
Alex
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