As I’ve mentioned in the previous lessons, it’s easy to become overwhelmed with your fitness regime and the daily tasks involved.

Treat your Workouts and Meal Times etc as you would with any other appointment or task that you need to carry out or keep during the week / and or on a regular basis.

This could be in your electronic organiser, daily business / appointment journal, your calendar / timetable on the wall or fridge at home. Book in your resistance workouts, your cardio workouts, meal times and even what you’re having for those meals. If it’s a Monday and you’re doing a full body workout at 9.30am (just an example) then book it in as “full body workout”, or “20 mins cardio ” etc .

It’s always good to share this timetable with your family, partner, friends – whoever you’re living with etc or spending time with, so they can see what commitments you’ve got and so they also don’t double book you.

If say, your workout time coincides with something that can’t be helped, then book yourself in for an “emergency plan b” workout for that day. Even a smaller version of your workout. So you don’t feel like you’re back-tracking. You can do a 10-15 min workout if you need too.

You can also combine quality family time with exercise. And do two of your workouts as an activity at home, in the backyard or at the local park with your kids. Make it fun. And log it into your appointments as a regular booking – “family time”. If you’re hubby or wife isn’t interested then do it on your own, find a local community group that you can join or even get a group of mom’s and dad’s together and start your own regular fun time with kids.

Example:
Depending on their age… Throw the ball to each other, do 20 or 50 meter jogs or sprints, jump rope, do squats, do planks, pushups from your knees or toes, help each other do pull-ups or chin-ups on the monkey bars.

Find out what your kids like to do eg… it might be running around kicking the ball to each other. Playing chasey. Indoor rock climbing. Get them to design their own funky dance moves – and yep, you have to join in! There ARE SOOOOOOOOOOO many fun things you can do to not only get your own training in, but have quality time with the kids as well.

Find some cool fun healthy recipes that the kids are keen to help make. Get them involved in the process and appointment booking. Example… when the kids look on the fridge calendar they know Tuesday’s is family fun time and Friday night’s is kids cook-up night , 9.30am is Mom’s workout time and Dad’s workout time is 6pm on certain days. You get my drift.

The more enthusiastic you are about sticking with your time-table the sooner you’ll see the results from your efforts.

Weigh it up…

Kicking yourself: you’re feeling swamped, overwhelmed, your exercise and nutrition is out of whack and you want to just give up.

OR

Being organised: less stress, having more fun, knowing your getting your workouts in, spending time with family or pets, having your meals fall into place.

Bit of news for you…

As part of VFT’s New “Fun, Hot, No B.S. Fitness” Online & Email Magazine, one of our awesome featured fitness experts will be offering some fantastic advice on “fitness for kids”. So stay tuned!

In your next lesson we’re going to go a little deeper with:
“Tips To Nip Those Bad Habits in the Bud NOW!”

Take care…
Mandy
VirtualFitnessTrainer.com
VFT – NO BS Fitness!