“I haven’t got the time”

Make time for your family. Make time for your friends. Make time to get on at work, do the washing, walk the dog and answer the emails. Somewhere after all of that, make time to exercise.

It is the most common thing anybody says to us, and it is usually true rather than an excuse. So here is an honest answer rather than a lecture.

Where the hours actually go

There are twenty-four in a day. Seven or eight asleep if you are lucky. Eight to ten at work. Three or four running errands, seeing people, sorting out everybody else. If you have children or a sixty-hour week and still get out of the door on time, you are doing well already.

Against that, an hour for yourself can feel indulgent. It is not, but the feeling is real and pretending otherwise helps nobody.

Ten minutes is not nothing

On the days a session is impossible, ten minutes still counts. Pick two exercises that make you work. Fifty seconds on the first, ten seconds rest, forty on the second, twenty rest. Five rounds. That is seven and a half minutes of actual effort and you will know about it.

Do that on the mornings you cannot get to the park and you have kept the habit alive, which is the thing that matters. Habits do not survive gaps well.

Why a fixed session beats good intentions

The trouble with training when you find the time is that you never find the time. Something always fills it. A session at a set hour, with people expecting you, is protected in a way an intention never is.

That appointment is most of what a bootcamp membership actually buys you.

And if it slips

It will. Nobody trains every week of the year. Book back in for the Monday, say nothing, pick it up. The group is used to it and so are we.