Fitness Tips: Need More Hours in Your Day?

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

07 Aug 2006 10:30 AM

One of the largest complaints that most individuals (including myself) have about their workout is they don't have time to get their workout done. The following five tips are designed to help you achieve the impossible: more hours in your day.

• Running Errands - Many of us often have several errands to run on a regular basis. Some errands require more time than others and some errands can send you clear across time. Cluster your errands into groups that allow you the minimum amount of travel time
• Catching Up Family and Friends to your Current Situation - Your husband is being deployed. Your daughter tested and obtained admission to AP classes. Your youngest is now walking and talking. These are all worthy topics that your family and friends are going to care about. Instead of making individual calls - put together a message with all the details and address it in a friendly, conversational manner and then send it out as a mass email to all-important parties. You can even do it as a blind (bcc) communication so that no one feels like they are receiving a mass letter
• Blow drying your hair - Seriously, people with very long or thick hair can spend as much as 20 minutes a day blow-drying their hair in the manner they like. Invest in an ionic dryer - it can blow dry your hair much faster
• Driving the kids to and from various activities and going back and forth to work - enjoy the quiet time in the car while you can. Put in an audio book, self-help CD and let that time become quality, personal time instead of just a commute
• Constantly Waiting for the kids at dance, soccer practice or other - if you're near a grocery store - do your grocery shopping while your children are occupied. There is a nail place right next door to my daughter's dance class and I have take the time while she is in her class to get a pedicure before - it's always good to kill two birds with one stone, figuratively speaking

What other time-saver tips can you think of?

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Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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