Guest post today, MizFit! Ya’ll remember her? She stopped by to share insight, wisdom, advice thoughts & comments. On with the show:
Question Posed by Annabel @ Feed Me I’m Cranky!:
Dear MizFit,
Ok, the days are getting shorter and my life is getting crazier. I can only fit in a work-out in 3 different 20-minute slots per day. What is the best way to maximize this time?
I love this question for so many reasons.
First is that I totally get you’re not being able to spare 60 minutes at one time and, in a way, I think it’s a good thing!
My philosophy is we all need to set ourselves up for success (in all of life. I‘m a one-time life-coach after all).
Sure your life (uh, one’s life. We’ve already established this isn’t you 
) may “support” your being able to work out for hours on end *now* but my philosophy is why start something you can’t realistically keep up for the long haul (please also to see Biggest Loser workout routines & cross reference under Oprah when she did Optifast).
I don’t work out a great deal every day (at all) but I have done the same not-too-long routines for a while now. For almost sixteen years.
In my opinion it is all about consistency. Moving a little every single day. Period.
Finding a plan now that works in bits & pieces will set you up for long term success as we can ALL FIND a few spurts 
throughout the day to exercise.)
Studies show that if you’re not training for an athletic competition, breaking up your workout is just fine! The phrase many trainers throw around is that 10 plus 10 plus 10 DOES equal 30. If you find three ten-minute segments during your day to do cardiovascular exercise by sundown it is as if you’d done one thirty-minute bout.
Now, not knowing your specific goals, I’d recommend this:
Morning and evening cardio sessions.
I figure you can SWEAT then and it wont matter as it would if you did cardio during your lunch hour.
DVDs, recorded On Demand exercise shows, running, walking, jump rope—-ANYTHING for the twenty minutes you have before and after work. I tend to do cardio more frequently but less of it. I might do 20 minutes in the morning and then ten minutes/stretching after work.
20 minutes at lunch. I’d love to know more here. Is there any way this can be your resistance training time? Do you work near a gym? Even if you don’t belong, you might wanna see if you
could get a month membership and try it out. Do you have an office (you could shut the door and EASILY do many of these exercises in the privacy of your office)?
If you do decide that this is your resistance training time you could break up your body into five parts (chest, back, biceps, tricep/shoulders, legs) and EASILY be finished in 20 minutes.
You could also do a full body routine three times a week and just relax or meditate on the other two days.
I hope this helped some.
I’m a big believer that by starting out not over-exercising but planning a routine you can do for the long haul you will be able to easily maintain your weight loss.
AND..there ya have it friends – any other idea’s on how to get your workouts in?
Tonight, we are picking up Carlos’ neice from the airport – she is going to spend the weekend with us. I’m very nervous about trying to stay healthy because lets face it, this week has been pretty flippin‘ tough on me healthy-wise.
Tomorrow, I have a sad sad SAD story to tell you, breaks my heart – come back okay?
