Beginner's Fitness Programs

You are at work at 7 o’clock in the morning for breakfast meeting, then you have to finish three reports, and your boss is asking you to finish another; by 6pm at you are totally exhausted and in no mood to go to the gym to work out. You say to yourself, “well, I cannot put my energy into working out tonight. I will work out twice as hard tomorrow.” You know, however, that tomorrow never comes…

A new research study, unfortunately in some sense, has confirmed this. One study published in Psychology and Health found that if you use up all your willpower on one task, it depletes your reservoir of willpower, and then you can’t use your willpower for something else, even in a totally different field.

What can we do, if we are busy at work every day, as most of us are in the rat race? The researchers suggested that if you make a specific plan for working out, and set a specific time slot and location (such as the gym), your chances of achieving your workout goal are much higher. I also suggest that even if you don’t feel like working out, just go to your gym every day. You don’t even need to do a full workout. Just go there, change clothes and pick up some weights for even 10 – 15 min. Then go home. Eventually, you can give your willpower a “workout,” and you can actually start working out even after a hard day at work. Yes, for your health, work out your body and mind every day!

Source: McMaster University (2009, September 25). Rough Day At Work? You Won’t Feel Like Exercising.

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