Right Time, Right Move

Exercise has become a very interesting part of our lives. Even if you are not getting as much exercise as you want, it is not actually a part of your routine, it will always be part of your life. Exercise is something that we need. We did it daily as kids, it got more challenging as we got older and for most people it became something that we never do as adults.

This is a sad story. Not just because of the issues that follow when we don’t make exercise part of the day. We all know that weight is increasing, disease is becoming more common and healthcare is costing more and more every year. This is no coincidence. We all know that exercise can mean the difference between continuing this trend and making it a thing of the past.

The choice is yours. That doesn’t make it easy. What makes exercise so difficult? I hear a lot of excuses for not getting enough into each day. The most common reason given when the question is asked is:
“I don’t have time to exercise.”

I’m not surprised when I hear this. Not only do I hear it from many people, but I also understand just how busy everyone is. I am that busy myself. There are not enough hours in the day for everything that we need to do in our lives, let alone enough time to do everything that we want to do. The needs are hard enough, so the wants are a significant challenge.

It is hard to “find time” for anything in our lives. When it comes to exercise, we are constantly battling within. There is the part of you that knows you should do it and the part that sees the rest of the schedule and thinks that it is not possible. The battle rages daily for many of us and unfortunately it is a lop-sided battle with one side winning far more frequently than the other.

What’s worse is that many of us give up the battle completely after a certain point. It becomes more and more difficult to make exercise part of the day, so we simply give up. We figure that it won’t happen, so why try? Well, trying is not the problem. Even when you are losing the battle internally, if you are having the battle, you are trying.

Trying is an important key to the success of any plan. You can’t just come up with a plan and expect it to happen. You have to try. You have to execute in order for anything to happen. What that being said, execution seems to be the main problem with exercise.

When you put these two terms together, it actually makes exercise even simpler:
1. Trying is the most important key to success (of any plan)
2. Execution is the main problem (with any plan)

If trying is the key to success, all you have to do is be willing to give it some effort. Any effort should be enough to get something going. Especially with exercise, it doesn’t take much. Just look at the recommendations: 30 minutes of exercise is recommended to maintain a healthy weight, lowering risk of heart disease (cuts risk in half!) and other factors. 30 minutes is the length of one sitcom. 30 minutes is a lunch break or half of a lunch break if you get an hour. 30 minutes is not very much time. We find 30 minutes to surf the web. We find 30 minutes to watch TV. We find 30 minutes to drive to and from fast food restaurants. We find 30minutes to do all kinds of things, but we can’t find 30 minutes to get a little exercise?

Trying does not mean waiting to find time, trying means making time. When it comes to exercise, if we don’t make time, it won’t get done. There is nothing more clear to me in my journey as the fact that if we don’t make time, it won’t get done. Trying simply means making time, setting time aside and getting SOME exercise in.

The rest of that equation involves execution. The big problem with execution is the fact that we think we have to do it all before we even get started. When it comes to execution of exercise, many people are arguing that what they have time for is not enough or what they have access to is not the right kind of exercise for the results they want. Not true.

If you try to fit exercise in and you execute a plan, you can live healthy. This sounds overly simple, but it is true. Trying: looking for time, making time to fit exercise in. Execution: doing something, anything that is physically more active than sitting in a chair all day.

What is the right time to exercise?
When you can

What is the right amount of exercise?
As much as you can get

What is the right move?
The move that you do

These questions are clear and the answers are even clearer. If you can make time, you can exercise. We all make time for things we are told to do. We all make time for things that we don’t want to do, but simply think that they have to be part of the day. Exercise is something that we all want. Health, the result of our exercise is something we really want.

Any time you can devote to something you want is time well-spent. Any move you make toward something you want is the right move, especially when you are talking about something as simple as exercise. Do something active today. It will be the right time and it will be the right move.