It can be hard trying to find the time to get exercise, go to work, go out and relax. But exercise doesn’t have to take up that much time. If you can’t afford to go to a gym or don’t have the time then its easy just to do a half hour run.
Do that 3-4 times a week and you shouldn’t have to worry too much about what you eat. I found a good time to exercise is before the day has started. Get up 40 minutes earlier than you would usually and go for a run, it will leave you refreshed, energetic and more ready for a hard days work. Plus this will increase your metabolism for the day allowing you to eat more.
No good at running? Don’t worry, a run need not be at sprint pace, just try a light jog for as long as you can and then build on it. I found a good way of improving my fitness was to create a small track, mine was about 400 meters. I would round the track say twice a night for the first week. Then the second week I added another lap and each week I would add a lap until I had reached about a half hour jog. I would then start working on my speed; once I had reduced the half hour jog to say 20 minutes while still covering the same distance I would then increase the distance so I was once again running for half an hour.
If you get bored just running round then try doing sprints in the run. I used lamp posts as marks and would say sprint 3 lampposts and then jog 3 and repeat until I couldn’t sprint anymore and then jog gently for say 15 minutes. I advise taking a Walkman with you too. I find that with music blurring down my ear holes I can run for over an hour without getting bored.
The most important thing to do when trying to improve your fitness is to keep record of what your doing. So write down how far you’ve run and in what time and then try to be constantly improving on this. Remember that you don’t have to improve hugely each time, just make sure you don’t go backwards.
Also you don’t have to run, you can get on your bike or your skates, just do something that increases your heart rate and keeps it at an increased level for a period of time.
Ok, so you can now run the London marathon in 10 minutes without breaking sweat but you can’t lift your own body weight and can’t afford a gym membership. There are plenty of strength building exercises you can do in the comfort of your room.
You can even do them naked in your room, which for some reason the gym wouldn’t let me do, not that I ever tried or anything. Anyway back to the point, or leaving the point in its pants, whatever. Press-ups, pull-ups, burpee’s, sit-ups, skipping, dips and masturbation can all be done at home with no cost. And just in case you don’t know what these are I’ll take the time to explain…
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