“I Don’t Have Enough Time To Work Out”…. TRY AGAIN!
“I don’t have enough time to workout”. This is probably the #1 excuse there is for not wanting to sweat, experience temporary discomfort and bust your butt in the gym. And it’s also the lamest excuse. Just tell me you are lazy, you are afraid of sweating, you would rather watch TV…. ANYTHING except you don’t have enough time. 3 hours per week is all I ask from you. 3 hours out of 168 is all you have to spare me. In fact, we could do this whole “fitness thing” in three 45 minute sessions. So, are you really saying you can’t find 135 minutes a week out of your busy schedule? WOW!! You really are a busy person. You are actually busier than the President of the United States I guess. Please humor me for a second while we attempt to find time to work out for you……
I first got this little time graph idea from my friend David Faxon and I think the idea originally came from Thomas Plummer but I could be wrong.
There are 168 hours in a week. If you sleep 8 hours at night and worked up to 10 hours per day Monday-Friday that would leave you with 62 hours in the week.
Let’s assume you need 14 hours total to deal with taking your kids to baseball practice, etc.
This leaves you with 48 hours. How can we blow these?
Let’s be really generous and give you another 14 hours to sit on your butt, gorge yourself and watch TV. Now you only have 34 hours in the week to get your workouts in.
I’m going to be even nicer and give you ANOTHER 31 hours to do whatever you want to do….. YES 31 free hours to do ANYTHING!!
And guess what? You still have 3 hours reserved to get healthier, stronger, be happier and live a better life.
So please, never use the excuse of “not enough time” to workout.
Ps. The wonderful “Go Work Out” photo is a Michael Richeson original…. It is now a poster that hangs on the wall at IPT.
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