Morning comes way too soon, at least in my book. Am I the only one who has to drag herself out of bed each day? I’d much rather stay asleep. But duty calls, so I get up. I can definitely say that early mornings are not the best time for me to exercise.
There might be some physical reasons why kicking each day off with aerobics is a good idea, but I’m afraid my psychological reasons trump everything. I don’t want to do anything for the first hour I’m awake! If I set that kind of demand on myself, I’d give up too soon.
Exercise is very important. Our bodies crave movement. Still exercise doesn’t easily happen in our modern world like it did for thousands of years before us. As a general rule we don’t walk, we drive; we don’t grow our food, we buy it; we don’t scrub our clothes clean, we drop them into the washer. Our age is geared toward convenience and how to get out of physical work as much as possible. Then in a contrived way, we invent ways to work our bodies, like go on walks around and around a track or drive to a gym.
In order to guarantee that exercise is a consistent pattern in our lives we really need to make it convenient. Everything else in our lives is! It still takes plain old hard work, don’t get me wrong. But we need to let exercise be enjoyable and stress-free if we want to keep it a life-long commitment.
This is exactly why I don’t exercise in the early morning. That time a day is not convenient for me. I’m going to pick a time that I know I’ll be able to stay committed to.
I totally agree with this. I know that exercise is good for me, but there is NO WAY I can do it consistently in the morning. Early evening is best for me.
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