ROSIE - FInd motivation!!

So, this is something that we've written about at least a couple of times over the last 6 months on Bingham Girls but, from my experience, both personal and professional, it is the BIG one when it comes to exercise. The biggest excuse for not doing exercise is "I don't have time". I've uttered it to myself more times than I care to admit - and I LOVE exercise.

We live in such busy times; jobs, families, children, pets, socialising, housework, DIY, holidays - there are a million and one things that usually come higher up the list than exercise, and usually not because you want them to but because they HAVE to be higher.

So, how to motivate yourself? I think the biggest thing is to ask yourself how important it is to you to exercise. How does it make you feel? What do you want to achieve? What health factors make you need to exercise? How do you feel when you DON'T exercise?

Time passes by so quickly and if you think to yourself, well, I'll do 4 workout sessions this week and suddenly it's Sunday evening and you've only got one in, it can be very demoralising.

Sit down, write a list (yes, I'm a list girl) of all the good and bad things about exercise. What excuses do you use to avoid it? Why does it not happen? You need to analyse your life and maybe why it doesn't happen. I think you will honestly find that when you do that, there will be a lot of things that can be cut out of your life, or done more efficiently to create time. It doesn't have to be about dropping something from your life to make more time for it, it's just about making the time.

Do it - if you're finding that your exercise is falling by the wayside through no control of your own - it usually IS in your control, you just need to find a way to control your time better.