![]() It’s a personal preference, but I love to feel my muscles get really worked up in order to deem an exercise worth going back to again and again. Short workouts can be intense-in a good way. “Think big picture, as in total volume (minutes) per week, instead of putting so much pressure on yourself in a day-to-day scenario,” she says. You may have been tempted to skip it completely, but by focusing on the 10 minutes you do have, you’ve given your body some time to move instead of none.Įventually you may use those 10 minutes as a jumping off point to longer workouts-or you may stick with what’s working, Brittany Overstreet, Ph.D., a certified clinical exercise physiologist and assistant professor of kinesiology and applied physiology at the University of Delaware, tells SELF. Say, for instance, those days when life gets in the way and you don’t have the time available to devote to your normal workout. “People may opt out completely if they cannot meet that ‘requirement.’”īy saying “10 minutes is enough,” you open up more opportunities to get moving. “When we set the threshold at 30, 60, 90 minutes of movement, it can be overwhelming,” Lauren Leavell, a NASM-certified personal trainer and certified barre instructor in Philadelphia, tells SELF. A sustainable practice is easier to keep up long-term. I’d consider my test run a total win, especially at a time when looking forward to anything is an impossible task of its own. Now it’s my time, a space for me to connect with my body, give it what it needs without asking for anything more, and feel ready for the day ahead. It’s no longer a battle between me and my schedule, trying to block out a huge chunk of time to make enough minutes in the day for a circuit I wasn’t that into anyway. During this experiment (three months and counting!), I have now come to cherish and look forward to those 10 minutes in the morning. It’s a huge shift from how I felt before.
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