12 Sneaky Ways to Stay Fit When You’re Too Busy to Work Out

Check your mindset

Too busy to exercise? Or not motivated enough? A recent U.K. study analyzed what happened when healthy people took a break from physical activity for two weeks (they reduced their daily step count from 10,000 a day to 1,500 per day). They discovered that their new sedentary habits lead to a loss of muscle, more fat, and reduced cardio fitness. But it doesn’t have to be that way. One way to minimize fitness losses when you can’t exercise as much is to adopt the right mindset, says Cris Dobrosielski, spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise and owner of Monumental Results in San Diego. Forget the “all or nothing” approach that keeps you thinking that one or two days a week isn’t good enough—so you might not get in any activity at all. “That’s an unfortunate cognitive approach that leads to destructive behavior,” he says.

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