??♂?How To Exercise Around A Busy Schedule
Fran Kilinski
Experienced Personal Trainer, Published Writer, Runner and Athlete | Founder and Advisor
When You Don’t Have A System In Place For Something, It Gets Hard
To keep it going.
Without a system, one bad day can derail everything, spiraling into multiple bad days in a row, or, at the very least, multiple missed days of exercise.
We’re all going to perpetually be “busy,” or find ourselves in the busy trap — finding work to do to feel productive even when some tasks can wait a bit.
Fortunately, you don’t have to let busyness make you slack off on exercise. I’ve got some ways for you to exercise even when your schedule gets out of your hands.
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??♂?How To Exercise Around A Busy Schedule
Everyone will have a different personality type.
Some are overachievers. Some will be “just-get-it-done”-ers. Some will be procrastinators. Most will have shades of all three that they cycle through.
All of these people schedule things differently and prioritize them differently.
I’ve ranted and raved about how Americans have struggled to meet the weekly exercise guidelines for some time now.
But I also haven’t gone into specific detail about how someone trying to hit these guidelines could feasibly do it.
Exercise snacks are a great way to work more movement into your day, but even a week’s worth of snacks may not be enough by itself.
For someone who is working a typical 9-5 job where they are seated most of the day and don’t get to break away much from their workday, here are some strategies I’d suggest.
The Myth About The “To-Do” List
Having a to-do list is something I recently reintroduced into my life.
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I learned in college after a famous alum came to give the student-athletes a talk that there’s power in writing things down.
Pretty quickly, I found that writing down my to-do list at the beginning of each day — sometimes the night before — made my days more productive because I’m someone who loves to check a box.
But I also had days where not every agenda item was crossed off.
I think to-do lists are great insofar as you can keep them realistic.
You learn a lot about yourself when you find out how much you want to write down on a to-do list.
More often than not, the more you write, the less likely it is you achieve everything.
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One could argue that a long list of to-do’s could still equal a net gain in productivity, but sometimes all it takes is one thing to go awry for someone to quit altogether.
“A to-do list is a fantasy. Most of them never get completed and we all know it. If tragedy strikes then I can drop everything and hide in a cocoon for a month.
While I might disagree that they’re a “fantasy,” I love the idea of making a solo list — with one action item — to get the thing done.
The myth about to-do lists is that they don’t always fuel productivity.
In fact, productivity might be overrated, depending on how you view this next quote about productivity debt from Oliver Burkeman.
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“And make no mistake: paying off your imaginary productivity debt completely – in other words, working so hard and so efficiently that you no longer feel like you're falling behind – is literally impossible, not just grueling and unpleasant.
In other words, don’t worry about working so hard all the time. There will always be tasks. Find time for things that are productive in other ways — fitness, relaxation, family time, and movement.
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