{"id":103,"date":"2017-09-18T11:37:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesellgym.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2017-09-18T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:40:17","slug":"fitness-excuses-off-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wesellgym.com\/blog\/fitness-excuses-off-beam\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Excuses are off Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have had a hard time making exercise a habit, take heart. You aren\u2019t alone. Although activity levels are up across the country many of us still aren\u2019t active enough, if at all. We know we should, but excuses just keep getting in the way.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m too busy:<\/h3>\n

The bottom line is that we all make time for priorities. Steven Covey illustrates this very point with his big rocks exercise. In the exercise, the contributor is given a large container along with a number of big rocks and many, many small rocks. Her duty is to create the whole thing fit into the container. Firstly she places all the small rocks in the container and attempts to make room for the large rocks on top. Attempt as she might entirely the rocks will not fit. All of a sudden, it dawns on her to place all the large rocks in the container first and then transfer in the small rocks. Everything fit perfectly.<\/p>\n

To make exercise significance titled it a big rock and set it in your time bucket first. If there isn\u2019t enough room you will have to remove and replace small rocks until exercise fits. Here are some ideas:<\/p>\n