Almost everyone who is not a professional athlete has this problem: keeping to a tight schedule of exercise that you can work your day around. 

Well it’s tough for various reasons. You lack the time allotment to do it each day, or you don’t have any scheduled workout session.

Many people won’t need to set up a specific time to workout, but how often have you said you’ll do it on the weekend or when you feel like it, and actually gone through with it? If the answer doesn’t fill you with any measure of pride, give this method a chance:

Step 1: Look at your schedule. You need to figure out how to properly portion out your exercising periods in a way that can be flexible if necessary. A good standard for many people is working out in the mornings if time allows, and doing exercises for 30 minutes each day. If you can’t work out every day, you could repackage this time into workouts of one hour every other day. I don’t recommend working out only on the weekends; that’s too much inactivity for your muscles. Once you get an exercise system going regularly, your muscles will get more used to the strain. With only weekend sessions, your muscles have plenty of time to stiffen up and make getting back into exercise a hassle, which can discourage you.

Step 2: Write down your regimen. If you know what you’re going to do before you do it, you just jump right into it, and it becomes habitual over time. Choose exercises that are related to which muscles you need to strengthen or specific areas of body fat, and find small things to make yourself more comfortable. Listen to music while you work out, and if needed, go outside just for the sake of exercise if being indoors diverts your attention to other things in the house.

Step 3: Ease into it. You need to stick with it for the first few weeks, which are going to be the hardest weeks, and power through the strain and tension. Often when people can’t do an exercise they feel the need to explain that they are incapable of that exercise. Unless you have some medical condition that creates this issue, it’s your brain, your best friend and your worst enemy, that’s holding you back. You may not be able to do the exercise, or you may not be able to do it just yet. 

This can help you get a well scheduled workout, though one of the most helpful ways to get into regular exercise is just finding something active you enjoy. Just be sure to realize that whatever sport or activity you enjoy, it likely won’t work out everything, so cover the other areas as well. By trying this method, you may find yourself enjoying better health within a matter of weeks.