Is your easiest excuse for not exercising better than mine?

Maryville
Sun sinking low in Maryville, TN, near Knoxville

The easiest excuse I know of for not exercising is “I travel for a living. Travel is too hectic and time consuming to fit in exercise“. Beat that?!

Delta Airlines. Orlando to Atlanta. Atlanta to Knoxville. After the sound check in Maryville (TN), the sun nearly down…..dinner or a run? When you’re tired, hungry and anxious to get a good night’s rest, dinner is the obvious choice. And so it goes.

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Exercise and travel can work

exercise while traveling
Virtually everyone allows travel to be an excuse

Heading home to Disney World this morning. Up at 4am with an hour before the cab arrives to get me to a 6:19am flight to Memphis. Know what this means? No run, no exercise. There was none yesterday either. Professional speakers are usually the first in the classroom and the last to leave.

But we have to figure it out. If we don’t, we’ll quit. So I ran two days ago in the morning before flying from Orlando to Missouri, making yesterday and today “rest days”. Perfect, creative plan to keep moving forward. Got it?

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I Planned On Two Days Of No Running, But Not Three

A morning run in Greensboro, North Carolina

Knowing and working with (and around) our personal habits is an overlooked exercise and wellness tip. Exploit our good habits, say focus and discipline. Mitigate our undesirable habits, say not planning ahead.

Knowing it was literally impossible, because of my travel and teaching schedule, to run for two straight days, I knew there was an opportunity yesterday morning….

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