Experiment with different options and see what works best for you. Maybe you’ll love working out at lunchtime or at night. #3: Experiment to find the workout time that’s best for youĮverybody’s got different work/life schedules and different rhythms to their daily energy and motivation. If I haven’t already done my exercise, I will put in a quick 30 minutes to make sure I have something to log in my workout sheet. I keep track on my phone throughout the day, and update the log in the evening. I actually have a spreadsheet that I complete every day that has my income, investments, appointments, diet and exercise log on it. And the best way to do that is to schedule your workouts on your calendar and treat them like doctor’s appointments. If you want time to exercise, you have to make time for it. #2: Put your training schedule on your calendar My personal workout routines involve a few things: walking (minimum of 90 minutes per day on days off, 60 minutes per day on work days), rowing machine (I row while I watch movies or sports on TV), weight lifting (I have a bench and free weights in my apartment so I don’t have to go out to a gym), bicycling (though, honestly, Bangkok makes this too stressful much of the time), and swimming (convenient, if small, rooftop pool in my building). If you do that, you’ll be 90% there to becoming a man who exercises religiously. But all exercise is good for you, any exercise is better than none, and if you choose the right form of it - the form that’s right for you - it can in fact hurt so good and be a source of great pleasure.īottom line: if you want to make exercise a habit, start off by picking an activity you enjoy. And it’s true that certain kinds of exercise are more or less effective than others. It’s true that to be effective all exercise will involve some discomfort. Eventually, their dislike for their chosen regimen overpowers their will, and they stop working out altogether. Yet while these folks can flog themselves to exercise for a few weeks or even a few months out of a sense of dour obedience, they’re ultimately kicking against the pricks. They think exercise is like eating Brussels sprouts you may not like the taste, but you’ve got to get ‘em down because they’re good for you. When it comes to exercise, people tend to think that for it to work, it has to be unpleasant. I thought I might share the highlights with you. It’s the perfect city for Crocs.īut I felt like I struck gold with an article in the Health & Sports Archives: The 10 Best Ways to Make Exercise an Unbreakable Habit. Beyond the lack of choice, there’s the weather to consider Bangkok is a sweltering pit of smog and humidity that doesn’t allow for a ton of fashion choices beyond cargo shorts and slightly damp tee shirts. I decided to look at the Style & Grooming section, and spent a few minutes on A Man’s Guide to Dressing Sharp and Casual in His 50s, and really liked what the article had to say, but realized that - being 6’ 2” and well over 250 pounds and living in Thailand - my sartorial choices are simply too limited in this city for me to affect a “look” that I’d really like to achieve. I skimmed The Importance of a Good Start: Using Temporal Landmarks to Achieve Your Goals, but didn’t really feel like it gave me anything useful. I hadn’t actually visited the Art of Manliness website in a while, so I spent some time perusing the articles on offer. I sent a link to my pal, thinking it might help him with those office lunchtime power naps we were talking about. Today I saw an article with the title “ How to fall asleep in 2 minutes or less”, which turned out to be a real beneficial read. Basically, just tilt the chair back and grab a “power nap”. The other day at work, a friend of mine and I were discussing how beneficial it can be to grab a short two or three minute nap at lunchtime in our office chairs. The site itself has a sense of humor about what it is there’s a sense of always being a little tongue-in-cheek, but at the same time, it’s chock full of information. The Art of Manliness website had articles that were really useful, such as how to shine your shoes, how to tuck in your shirt, and how to tie a necktie perfectly. I first discovered it several years ago when I was trying to give my students some tips on preparing for job interviews. One of my favorite websites is the Art of Manliness. Feel free to introduce topics that interest you in the comments below. The 5 o’clock club aims to provide a forum for reader-driven discussion at a time of day when there isn’t much NFL news being published.
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