6 Ways To Put Your Health in Your Hands | 93.3 The Beat
Obesity rates are at an all-time high in America. Our work-life balance is heavily skewed in favor of work. Between work, errands, dealing with kids, and your home life.Living a healthy lifestyle seems next-to-impossible leading many to place their health on the back burner.
However, it doesn’t have to be this way.
Achieving optimum health, improving your fitness and nutrition doesn’t require you to obsess over fad diets or attempt those crazy Instagram workouts (reminder: that’s their full-time gig), but instead these objectives require a focus on efficiency and effectiveness.
You can succeed in fitness without the rest of your life falling into chaos. No matter how hectic your schedule is, implement these six core principles to integrate health and fitness into your busy life.
- Know your why
Everything starts with a why. All missions and goals in life start with a why.
Your fitness isn’t any different. Without a why, your mission doesn’t stand a chance of succeeding. Your why is here to remind you that what you’re trying to achieve isn’t worth sacrificing for temporary pleasures (i.e. happy hours, excess TV time and office cookies). Want help with your why? Text me at 904.236.5858 for an appointment.
2. Forecast ahead
After figuring out your why, this is the next most important element to integrating fitness into your busy lifestyle. Whether it’s work, meetings, family events, or unavoidable obligations for the upcoming week–taking time to map out your events ahead of time is a game changer.
Most people’s workweek starts on Monday, therefore on Sunday, take out a notebook or use Google calendar to fill all your concrete dates in.
Here’s a chronological checklist you can use:
1. Write down all your employment work hours for each day since that’s permanent.
2. Jot down what times you wake up and sleep.
3. Think about how much time traffic takes from your life.
4. When is lunch break?
5. Jot down other miscellaneous events that are concrete (watching new TV episodes doesn’t count)
6. Now after your concrete events are scheduled in, determine how many days you want to exercise and see which days it makes the most sense to head to the gym and put those days in the calendar.
Don’t expect perfection in week one, but now you at least have a working plan to get started (you can always make adjustments later)
3. Make sleep your top priority
In a society where hustling into the wee hours earns us a badge of honor, it’s easy to see why sleep is brushed aside.
But, without sleep, all our exercising efforts are futile. Sleep is what helps us recover from workouts, helps with food decisions, helps us think clearly, and helps our weight loss efforts. Sleep manages our stress hormone cortisol, which when left unattended can slow fat loss.