How to Stay Motivated to Exercise Tips for Busy Parents

Aravind Padmaraju teaches busy parents how to build an exercise habit through three steps: daily affirmations to reprogram your mind, micro-workouts starting at 1-2 minutes and growing weekly, and flexible goals that allow for lapses without guilt.
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Hey busy parents, I know that I can really understand the pain what you are going through, that, you know, motivation for your exercise is the biggest. The tips which is going to be life-changing and how you can shift your perception about your exercise and how you can make your exercises a habit. How you brush your teeth, you will be able to do exercise every single day if you watch this video till the end of the day. Okay, and also at the end of the video, I have amazing gift for you. Health and wellness coach, and I'm here to help you how you can make health as a habit as part of your lifestyle is what I'm here for. And let's dive deep into— first of all, um, let's understand why, um, why do you feel like you don't feel like exercising it? You take that as, um, automatically that, that that becomes as a habit and it becomes as an automatic action. Do you agree or not? Tell me, how many of you here brush your teeth irrespective of what kind of condition you are, whether you are lazy, whether you are traveling, whether you are in busy schedule, whether your bosses did something, whether you don't— what is going to be from the people, right? The same thing when it comes to exercise. You don't have that strong purpose. You always did exercise. Tell me, how many of you here who was watching this video, you do exercise only to lose weight? You do exercise only when you have certain kind of a goal to achieve, but after you're achieving your goal, you leave. 3 days, and we will go deep dive into each of the point right now. But before that, you need to set this mindset that exercise is going to be part of my lifestyle, and you need to start programming that into your mind. Because all these years, what you've been, been programmed, exercise will only do when— a simple affirmation which you're going to say multiple times every single time when you're exercising it. We do certain kind of 4 to 5 different affirmations which will make sure that you will be able to exercise irrespective of what is your situation, what is your— not if you can— when you will make exercise as a priority? When your time, when you are able to give money, and when you are able to focus, and when you are able to give the place for it. So I want you to repeat this affirmation every single day. I exercise so easily and effortlessly. This is the first affirmation. Second of it, this is the amazing— if you see anything which you give priority, by default you give these 4 things. You give time, you invest money, you invest focus, you invest space to exercise. So I want you to keep repeating that. The third important thing, which— yes, it is painful. Yes. So when you start programming this, you will say, no, no, no, I have to exercise, because you will start putting that fear and pain into your mind so that your mind start taking action. The next important thing, the next affirmation is called as a pleasure affirmation. This is the NLP affirmations which will actually change the way you take action about your exercise. Okay, what is the first thing? First thing is easy and effortless. The second thing is— what's that? What is the second thing? Making your exercise as a priority. The third thing is talking about one every single day, 5 to 6 times. Keep repeating every single day, whatever it takes. I am going to exercise. It's very easy. I have energy to exercise. I have energy to exercise. I I have energy to exercise. Repeat this 5 times before you exercise every single day. If you really wanted to take it to the next level, dance and just jump for, say, 1 minute, 2 minutes' time and see the energy levels. And then automatically, uh, you start taking action. 90% of the time, why you're not taking action? Because you don't have energy to exercise. What you need the first and foremost is energy. And all these affirmations repeat before every single day you exercise. Okay, this is the first and foremost step. The second important step— so 90% of the time you have a complex, complex, and most complicated exercise plan ever. You plan it before you start. That is the biggest problem. Start with 1 to 2 minutes of exercise. That's all you need to do. You need to make it so effortless at the start. Just do a 10 or 1 minute jumping jacks. That's all you do for 1 week. Then add another week, uh, 1 more minute. Add another week, 1 more minute. Add another week, 1 more minute until you reach to 5 minutes, 10 minutes. Do a combination of exercises, really what you love. See, what is most important is you are complicating before even you're starting your journey, before even starting making exercise as a habit. So how you can make exercise a habit? By using this. Take small steps, do 1-minute or 2-minute routine consistently for 1 week. Then add 1 more minute, then add 1 more minute. Over a period of 5 to 6 weeks, you get to 5 to 10 minutes or 15 minutes or 20 minutes. That's why I created a program, uh, it's a 30 minutes, 30 days challenge. The link is in the below this description. It's called as a Daily Warrior Practice. You can practice with me daily a simple 7 minutes workout routine along with conditioning of your mind. Whatever I told, the statements we condition every single day before we exercise. How many of you think it is amazing? And I want to take opportunity, click on the link and join the Daily Warrior Practice. It's going to change the way you exercise. Okay, the second important point was you need to make exercise as a habit by taking small, small steps. The third important thing, uh, step you need to take is set a realistic goal. So don't make, uh, change your mindset and make a realistic goal that every single day, it doesn't matter what time you, you give 5 minutes. When you say 5 minutes, it doesn't matter whether morning you do, afternoon you do, evening you do. You fix up your time, 2 to 3 slots in a day, so that you will be able to do it, whatever it takes. Yes. So if you can follow these 3 steps— making, um, just conditioning your mind every single time before you start, and energizing your body before exercising. Second thing is Making it as small, small, small, small steps over a period of time, you can add up the steps, add up the time so that you can do it for at least 5 to 15 minutes, or you can even do it for half an hour if you start enjoying. The third important step is be flexible with your plan. Some days if you are not able to do it, that's absolutely fine, and you can able to fall back every single time whenever you want it. Okay, so until and unless you don't make it as a lifestyle, it's not going to happen. Okay, so just follow this and let me know whether what is the energy you're carrying after doing these small tips. This is literally changes, guys, I'm telling you. Some of my clients, they're able to exercise so energetically after doing these 3 steps. Okay, so I want you to try it and let me know in the comment section whether these tips are useful. And if you're still new to our channel, click on the subscribe button and click on the bell icon. I will be coming to you. I will be, uh, you will be notified whenever I post a new video. And if you're still new to our community, and there is a 30 days challenge which I do which is called as Daily Warrior Practice, where we can literally follow whatever I have been shared within this, uh, this video, and we can, you can follow for next 30 days. Yeah, so see you guys, and thank you so much for following and doing all the love and support which you're giving, and I'm so blessed and let's all together build a healthier and happier world. Take care, guys. Love you all. See you with one more new video. Bye-bye.
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