Need A Little Motivation?

I bet you can think of at least 5 excuses to not exercise without even breaking a sweat…pun intended!

Need an excuse to keep going? See if any of these ideas will help you step up your exercise routine.

Triathlon participants were recently interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, which asked for time-saving exercise and training tips. Here are a few.

★Stay in the living room. Triathletes often train inside on a bike trainer. They say using their brain while on a stationary bike improves their ability to do mental work. Sometimes their biking coincides with favorite

TV shows or movies. And it’s also time spent with family.

• ★  Work on the phone. One athlete thinks of work ideas while running and uses the phone’s voice memo feature to save them. Or he goes over phone notes for a meeting so he’s prepared. Then he showers and goes into the meeting.
• ★  Get help with busy work. When training for a triathlon, one mom sorts clean clothes into a basket for each of her children. They are responsible for folding them or hanging them up.
• ★  Exercise outside on/around the practice field. This same mom drives her kids to football or soccer practice, then spends their practice time jogging around the field or in the neighborhood.
• ★  If you have time for only one thing, run. Experts say it will build endurance for several other sports.
• ★  Make one-dish meals. Many athletes use spare time to cut up vegetables and dinner ingredients so they can just put them into the slow cooker.Maybe one of these suggestions will help you when your feeling lazy or like you just “don’t have time”.