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Subject:
no time to workout
Submitted by:
Nicole
King, Wylie, TX
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I wanted to know
if you could make some suggestions for my busy schedule.
For two years I was an amateur figure competitor, just for
fun, but I had the time to spend in the gym. I recently
lost my job, had to get a new one with grueling hours and
I'm taking 18 hours this semester at school. Thank god one
of my classes is a physical fitness class or I wouldn’t be
getting any exercise. Is there anything you can suggest I
do. I have lost 7 pounds of hard earned muscle and its
looking like I wont be able to get back into hard core until
December.
Help!!! |
Your predicament of “will but no way” to
exercise is the mirror opposite of the more common predicament of “way
but no will” to exercise. In some instances more pressing obligations
must be given precedence over exercise. If you’re taking 18 credits this
semester and working grueling hours at your job, you’re maxed-out. My
advice is to apply all of your efforts and energy to coping with your
current situation. Make sure you’re getting enough sleep and nutrition
is sound - if so, then see if you can do a brief workout at home in the
morning consisting of pushups, stretching, abs, rope skipping,
unweighted squats, side and plie lunge, or some combination of these
exercises. If you have weights at home, then there’s additional options
available. Of all the exercise variables – frequency, intensity,
duration, load – duration is the least significant. Especially where the
objective is to maintain rather than gain, working-out three times per
week for 15 minutes is infinitely better than no workouts. Duration can
be exchanged for intensity, and you can make up in consistency what you
lack in opportunity to go to the gym.
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