How to Schedule a Daily Routine Workout for Losing Weight

Healthy weight loss is a matter of changing your day-to-day habits on a long-term basis. One of these habits is regular exercise, which will burn calories, increase muscle tone and speed up your metabolism -- making your body's systems more efficient. However, it's often challenging to fit exercise into your daily routine, especially if you're busy. A plan will help you find or create intervals in your schedule to fill with exercise.

Instructions

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Look for gaps in your schedule. For example, if you usually finish work at 5 p.m. but do not have to pick up your spouse until 6:15 p.m., you could slot a workout in this gap.

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Work out at lunch time if your gym is close. This will energize you for the rest of the day. To save on time, eat at your desk either before or after your workout.

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Exercise at the same time each day. This will make it a daily habit rather than an occasional chore, and will therefore be easier to do.

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Work out with a friend on the same schedule. This will make it harder to miss workouts and make excuses, as there will be someone else you have to be accountable to.

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Perform exercise that is short duration and high intensity rather than exercise that is the opposite. For example, rather than jog for 40 minutes, sprint for one minute, jog for two minutes, and repeat for 20 minutes. This burns more calories than jogging alone.

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Perform regular resistance training that uses compound movements and focuses on strength. This means that you should be doing a lot of squats, deadlifts, bench presses and overhead presses with a high enough weight that you can only do five repetitions. If you do this, you can work your whole body in approximately 45 minutes.