Home again… finally

When I’m on the road, I think a lot about balance in my life, losing weight and replenishing my own energy. You’d think, since I visit Willow Stream spas around the world, I could do all that easily. It’s what our spa experts are best at, after all.

The problem is that you have to make the time to get there as they don’t do it in meetings and I seem to spend to spend most of my time at Willow Stream spas in meetings.

So now that I’m home for a week or so. Once again I am trying to find new ways to motivate and inspire myself to make time to take care of me.

This time, I’ve decided to figure out how to stay motivated to stay fit on while traveling or anytime when time is pressed. I’ve found a great trainer and he worked out a program I can do just about anywhere, when I’m traveling, stressed, or just plain lazy (which I am sometimes).

He mentioned a workout tidbit that might interest you. In order to help you lose weight, your total cardio workout time should be 220 to 240 minutes (about 4 hours) a week. That’s 35 minutes a day, which sounds doable, doesn’t it? You can get on a treadmill, an elliptical machine, or just go for a run. According to his research it also doesn’t matter how long each session is. So I’ve even tried walking on the treadmill during the 15 minutes I have to dial into a conference call.

I am very goal oriented. Trainers seem to work for me as you have to make an appointment. So now my goal is the number of minutes a week of cardio and somehow 35 minutes a day seems so much easier for me.

I’ll let you know how it goes. (My husband just came back from a trainer who specializes in helping professional golfers. The stretches he learned were awesome. I am going to try those too).