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How to balance fitness with work?

  • 29-09-2008 9:14pm
    #1
    cuaifeadh
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    I'm in college/working and have a lot of take home work. I figure I'm not alone in this! I find it hard to consistently give myself time for the gym or pool, even thought these are the things that give me a lot of energy and leave me feeling good about myself. Still, I keep finding myself choosing work and some other deadline over fitness. Has anyone had a similar experience and how did you overcome it?


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  • #2
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Functional exercise, commute to college, walk or cycle, and walk or cycle EVERYWHERE, it is faster to cycle in dublin for me these days, sometimes I would be faster walking!

    Exercise really wake me up in the morning, others say this too.


  • #3
    Wood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭Wood


    I hit the gym on my lunch break, and again after work 5-6 days a week. Still have time for a job, a girlfriend, a band, eating properly, hanging out with friends, going out, holidays, everything.

    It depends on how much you want it.

    Start off with 30 mins after college twice/three times per week, or maybe on a saturday morning. It's a lot easier than you think. I decided to get a bus an hour later in the evenings, which gets me home 30 minutes later with traffic and managed to get another 40 minute session in per day.

    I found that once i set a time to do it, it became part of a routine and it was harder to get out of it than it was to start it. Now I subconsciously organise my day within the parameters i seem to have set myself.

    If you do it once, it's a hell of a lot easier to do it again. Just try to get 30 minutes in somewhere, either before, during, or after college and you're set.


  • #4
    Petrolium Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭Petrolium Hat


    I agree with what's been said couple of key things when you're busy:

    You dont have to be in a pair of shorts and a tshirt in a gym to be excersising, if you have 45 mins free for lunch walk for half an hour eat lunch for 15.

    I find doing cardio first thing in the morning(and im talking 6am) really helps, doesnt have to be for an awful long time. I just get up through on any traning gear and run for half an hour. You mentioned swimming, maybe start building a routine of going for a swim every second day before work? Get a routine going where you feel like youve missed lunch if you havent excersised in a couple of days. Routine is important. You have to feel like it's part of your every day life rather than an added bonus if you have more time.

    Hope that helps.


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