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Exercise for Life Series Part III
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Tips and tricks for balancing work, home and health.
Spindaroos presents a helpful series that emphasizes the importance of creating
an exercise routine for life. We want to motivate you to do something regularly
to encourage strength, health and flexibility. Getting and staying fit is
important for long-term health both physically and mentally. We’ve been
offering information about getting your routine set up, and keeping you
motivated for the long-haul. Now, we’ll be discussing
tips and tricks for
balancing work, home and health
, The series is meant to encourage you and
your family to create and stick to a routine, not as just part of your week’s
schedule, but as a part of your lifestyle, something that just naturally fits
into your everyday life.
We are fully aware that it can be a tricky beast
to try to deal with balancing work, home and health. We’re here to give you some pointers on how
to best balance each aspect of your life so that you’re getting fulfilled in
every aspect. Many of us are being
pulled in multiple directions each day. Between job(s), extracurricular activities,
volunteering at school or other places in your community, making meals,
managing homework assignments, etc., life can get overwhelming. Thinking of
adding another item to your schedule seems almost impossible, especially
something that typically requires an hour several times per week to do to make
it most effective.
When some folks think of a daily workout routine,
they may not consider that a workout doesn’t have to be done all at once! If
you can find 15 minutes in the morning to do some stretching, 15 minutes during
your lunch break to take a brisk walk and 15 minutes in the evening to work on
strength training, that’s 45 minutes…done and done! And it’s done on your own
time and doing things you enjoy doing. Even if it’s one activity done
throughout the day in intervals, breaking it up like this helps to make it feel
less overwhelming to your daily schedule and manageable for your lifestyle.
If you would prefer to do your workout all at one
time so that it’s ‘done for the day’, picking the right time of day is
important. If you’re a morning person, waking up and getting your workout
groove on early is probably best for you. If you are a night owl, maybe a
workout after dinner is best. However, it’s important to not workout too late
if you’re doing more strenuous exercises because a boost of adrenalin later in
the evening may impact your ability to have a restful sleep.
Other options to making sure your workout is
seamlessly incorporated into your everyday life is to include your kids in part
or all of your routine. Taking a walk with your kids at night after dinner
benefits you and them in so many ways!
Not only are you getting fit together, it opens up opportunities to chat
about your days, whether it be cracking up about something funny that happened,
talking about a class they may be struggling with or more serious issues like
bullying or feeling pressured. If they know they always have an opportunity to
talk to you, it helps them on so many levels. They may even put it in the back
of their minds during the day that they’d like to talk to you about ‘something’
during your nightly exercise activity.
If you’re still having a hard time incorporating
a workout into your daily routine, don’t be distraught or give up. Be patient
with yourself. You don’t have to do a 600 calorie burning, heart racing, muscle
soreness workout every day of the week, or at all for that matter. As long as you’re
moving your body regularly while doing something you enjoy, that’s what matters
most. And that’s the recipe for long-term success!
We hope you’ve enjoyed this series and have
benefited from it in some way. One of our missions here at Spindaroos is to
encourage and motivate families to move. That’s why we do what we do in making
dynamic, unique cycling gear for kids. If children see their parents leading a
healthy lifestyle and taking part in movement each day, they’ll be more opt to
copy! While you’re building good habits for yourself, you’ll be helping them
build good habits simply by following your example.
It’s a never-ending
cycle of good.
Our next blog,
Creating
a Food Diary
, accompanies our Exercise for Life series. Look for it soon!