Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is about one way you can cut down
Speaker 1: on time spent in traffic and make time for exercise too.
Speaker 1: If you're ever on the roads between about seven and
Speaker 1: nine am or four to six pm, you've probably noticed
Speaker 1: that you're not the only one. I don't have a
Speaker 1: regular daily commute, but I do drive to Philadelphia's thirtieth
Speaker 1: Street station from my house quite frequently. I've learned that
Speaker 1: a trip that takes sixteen minutes with no traffic can
Speaker 1: take as long as forty five minutes during rush hour.
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people are listening to this
Speaker 1: podcast in the car, so I don't have to tell
Speaker 1: you that taking ninety minutes a day to drive something
Speaker 1: that would take thirty two minutes round trip at a
Speaker 1: different time is frustrating. It's particularly frustrating since one of
Speaker 1: the first things people drop when they've got along comet
Speaker 1: is that mood boosting activity known as exercise. One analysis
Speaker 1: of data from the American Time You Survey found that
Speaker 1: people who spent more time commuting consistently spent less time exercising.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a commuting SAPs willpower, or maybe it's a
Speaker 1: simple time logistics problem. If you plan to eat dinner
Speaker 1: around six thirty and the drive from work takes an hour,
Speaker 1: leaving it five fifteen means there isn't really time to
Speaker 1: fit in a run. If the drive takes twenty minutes, though,
Speaker 1: well you'd have thirty minutes for exercise plus time for changing. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's possible to address both problems. I received a
Speaker 1: note recently from a listener who had long wanted time
Speaker 1: to exercise, but wasn't sure how to fit it in
Speaker 1: with his commute. But then he thought about the situation
Speaker 1: and realized that the problem was that he was thinking
Speaker 1: about exercising right by his house, or maybe during the
Speaker 1: work day, when it was harder to fit in. So
Speaker 1: if he was going to exercise by his house in
Speaker 1: the morning or after work, he either had to get
Speaker 1: up incredibly early to go before battling traffic, or he'd
Speaker 1: be too tired to go by the time he got home.
Speaker 1: So he decided to go to a gym right by
Speaker 1: his office. He started leaving about an hour or so earlier.
Speaker 1: He traveled to the gym and get a workout in
Speaker 1: and discovered that even after doing fairly extensive workouts, he'd
Speaker 1: still arrive at work before he had been getting there.
Speaker 1: That's because traffic is so much better at six am
Speaker 1: than at seven am, So anyone doing this will get
Speaker 1: more than an extra hour in his or her life.
Speaker 1: Rather than get to work frazzled at eight am, you
Speaker 1: get to work at seven thirty feeling pumped up after
Speaker 1: working out for thirty to forty five minutes. We could
Speaker 1: picture our listener waving to his colleagues as they're coming in.
Speaker 1: With everyone seeing him there early, he could possibly leave
Speaker 1: a little earlier sometimes and feel no guilt about it.
Speaker 1: I know he's not the only one thinking about this.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine with a commute that took sixty
Speaker 1: minutes or more at rush hour, started going to a
Speaker 1: gym by her workplace right after work. By the time
Speaker 1: her favorite fifty minute class was over, the roads had
Speaker 1: cleared considerably. She figured she could leave work at six
Speaker 1: and get home at seven if she was lucky, or
Speaker 1: she could hit a six fifteen class, be in her
Speaker 1: car by seven, and be home well before eight. Now
Speaker 1: obviously shifting a drive time to build an exercise won't
Speaker 1: work for everyone. Someone with a strict daycare pickup time,
Speaker 1: for instance, can't just decide to get there later because
Speaker 1: he or she wants to hit the gym. But if
Speaker 1: you are co parenting with someone, it might be worth
Speaker 1: trading off pickups or early morning coverage so each parent
Speaker 1: can get at least one night a week skipping the
Speaker 1: traffic and getting some exercise to or doing it before work.
Speaker 1: Exercise makes people feel good and traffic makes them feel bad,
Speaker 1: so anything that increases the former and decreases time spent
Speaker 1: in the ladder is a win in my book. Do
Speaker 1: you shift your schedule to skip traffic? What do you
Speaker 1: do with this time? You can let me know at
Speaker 1: Before Breakfast podcast at iHeart media dot com. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to
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