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Sponsored posts can be eye-roll inducing, don't I know, which is why I only agree to write one if it's a topic I'd write about anyway. For instance, when Clever Girls and Tervis asked if I'd write about smart and healthy lifestyle tips, I jumped at the chance because this is something I've wanted to write about for a while.
I have a few tips, you see, that I've gathered after finally incorporating work-outs into my ridiculously busy schedule (and we all have busy schedules, am I right?). It can be done. You can work out and focus on healthy habits while also commuting and parenting and squeezing in date nights and paying bills and doing laundry and maintaining a social life.
- Find a work-out partner or organize a work-out group. This might be my top fitness tip of all time, actually, because it's been the one thing to completely change my attitude about exercising. When you have someone waiting for you at 6am at the gym across town, you just back out a lot less often, and you enjoy the work-outs a lot more.
- Embrace early work-outs. Okay, this sounds a little awful, I know, but after a few months of frequent early morning work-outs, I can genuinely say I've never regretted a single one. It's the work-outs I skip that I regret. You feel fantastic afterward, you've started your day on a healthy foot, and you come home after work without any guilt about collapsing onto the couch.
{Early morning trail run}
- Accessorize. This sounds like a strange tip, but if you have the right music, the right shoes, the right-fitting and most-comfortable clothes, and a few other right things, you can focus on the exercise and very little else.
- Schedule, schedule, schedule. I usually plan all of my weekly work-outs on Sunday evening. I mark them on my Google Calendar and also on a Google doc I keep. This is invaluable to me. When I don't have every last work-out planned, I spiral into an "I'll just think about it tomorrow!" train of thought. Sure, I sometimes bail and things come up, but this schedule keeps me honest more than ever before.
So, tell me, what are your healthy living tips for the busiest among us?
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