Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is that if you want to fit more
Speaker 1: activity into your life, you could try the equivalent of
Speaker 1: to a days. You might be able to use more
Speaker 1: spots of time for exercise and enjoy more variety overall. So,
Speaker 1: as some sports teams are ramping up for the season,
Speaker 1: they do what are known as two A days or
Speaker 1: two practices a day. I believe this was particularly common
Speaker 1: in football, though the NFL stopped doing them at one point.
Speaker 1: This might be because two normal practices a day would
Speaker 1: be twice as grueling as one.
Speaker 2: No thank you. However, the concept of exercising twice a
Speaker 2: day has some especially if you approach it right. Sometimes
Speaker 2: people assume they need to exercise for a long time,
Speaker 2: or it's just not worth it, or they think they
Speaker 2: only have time for one kind of exercise in life.
Speaker 2: But then that gets a little boring and perhaps they stop,
Speaker 2: so why not switch things up? This episode is first
Speaker 2: airing in summer, when it feels too hot to exercise
Speaker 2: during the day. For probably a lot of my listeners,
Speaker 2: mornings tend to be cooler people think, hey, I should
Speaker 2: get up to exercise. Of course, then they realize that
Speaker 2: waking up really early to do a long workout in
Speaker 2: the morning before work and feel like a pretty big ask.
Speaker 2: But maybe you could go for a twenty five minute
Speaker 2: run in the morning and then do a fifteen minute
Speaker 2: strength training session at night after your kids go to bed.
Speaker 2: That is forty minutes of activity, but you didn't need
Speaker 2: a forty minute chunk of time to do it. Plus
Speaker 2: you got to do some aerobic activity and some resistance training.
Speaker 2: That is a double win.
Speaker 1: Or maybe you can do.
Speaker 2: A fifteen minute yoga video over your lunch break and
Speaker 2: then you swim laps for twenty minutes during your kids
Speaker 2: thirty minutes swim lesson at night. The lesson isn't long
Speaker 2: enough to cover a long workout, but it can cover something,
Speaker 2: and you can do something different at a different point
Speaker 2: to get yourself up over thirty minutes a day. Or
Speaker 2: maybe you go for a family bike ride on a Saturday,
Speaker 2: but your family isn't particularly fast. You'll get some aerobic
Speaker 2: activity and then you could run sprints up and down
Speaker 2: your driveway while your kids are watching a show. Any
Speaker 2: exercise is better than no exercise. That said, I know
Speaker 2: some people find it hard to believe that twenty minutes
Speaker 2: will do much. Maybe, if you have big training goals,
Speaker 2: any given twenty minutes won't cover it all. But my
Speaker 2: experience is that people have a lot more twenty minute
Speaker 2: chunks during the day than they have hour long chunks.
Speaker 2: If you think you can only exercise during an hour
Speaker 2: long chunk, there may be a reasonable number of days
Speaker 2: when you don't exercise. If you start trying to use
Speaker 2: bits of time, though, you might exercise on more days,
Speaker 2: and by trying different things, you keep from getting bored
Speaker 2: by any one activity. Running forty minutes on a treadmill
Speaker 2: can feel like being on a hamster wheel. Twenty minutes
Speaker 2: might feel like it's just not that long, and then
Speaker 2: you do something else for another twenty minutes. Or maybe
Speaker 2: you even run for twenty minutes on that treadmill in
Speaker 2: the morning, go about your day and run for another
Speaker 2: twenty minutes after your chores at night. Neither session felt
Speaker 2: so long, but you still manage to run for forty
Speaker 2: minutes on a busy day, or maybe you try to
Speaker 2: find three slots in a day. I always love aiming
Speaker 2: for what I call try days in the summer, I
Speaker 2: run in the early morning, go for a bike ride
Speaker 2: as a break from work in the afternoon, and then
Speaker 2: do just a little swimming while I'm in the pool
Speaker 2: with the kids at night. It is not a real
Speaker 2: triathlon by any means, but it makes for a more
Speaker 2: interesting day of activity than I'd experience otherwise, and it
Speaker 2: can be surprising how many days allow it all to fit.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 2: here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for
Speaker 2: listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
Speaker 2: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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