How to Be Consistent with Exercise When Your Schedule is Inconsistent!

One of the toughest challenges people face with exercise consistency is a schedule that is constantly changing. If you're a lady boss, you probably have frequent and unexpected meetings. If you're a doctor, you likely have evening hours or early morning patients on certain days of the week. If you are a busy parent, you're likely shuffling your kids around to different daily activities. I am a victim myself of someone who has certain days that start extremely early, and others that go very late. People ask me all the time how I stay so consistent with 5-6 days of exercise per week. Here's a great tip for you to try that I utilize myself daily!

We all rely on cell phone calendars to block out appointments and time slots for daily tasks, right? Some of us still like the good old fashioned paper calendar as well! No matter what type of calendar you are using, I highly recommend treating your workout as an APPOINTMENT with yourself. Take 5 minutes with your morning coffee to block out the time for your workout in your schedule and don't overlook it! Think about it, if you had a 2:00 P.M. doctor's appointment for your yearly physical, would you miss it?? Absolutely not, and the same rules should apply for your workouts! Take a few minutes to sit down with your calendar in front of you, and schedule "workout appointments" with yourself. Write them down, and treat them like you would any other appointment!

After a few weeks of this, the schedule might become second nature to you, but if your schedule is constantly changing on a week to week basis, your workout appointment schedule can change each week! Getting yourself set up for the week with a workout schedule ahead of time prevents you from realizing on Friday that you only got one workout in that week!. And the REAL game changer is using your "NO" muscles so that you can stick to the plan!

• If someone asks you to bring the class snack during your workout, you say "Sorry I can't. I have an appointment."
• If someone asks you to meet after work to go over their project, you say "Sorry I can't. I have an appointment."
• When your kid wants you to pick them up from their friends house later than they first said, you say "Sorry, you can't stay. I have an appointment."

Are you catching my drift here?! Set boundaries with yourself and others and stick to your appointment schedule and you can't fail!

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🧡Kristie

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