If you typically can’t find time or motivation for workout sessions, perhaps you can split your daily activity into “exercise snacks”—5-minute chunks of working out that you can practice several times a day.
If the pandemic has you working from home and having more free time than ever, you may find it difficult to organize your workout schedule once things go back to normal. When things go back to normal you’ll lose plenty of time commuting every day and you won’t be able to use your work breaks to tidy up around the house, so workout time may be the first thing you sacrifice. It’s okay to give yourself some time to adapt and find balance, but if you continue not making time for exercising, perhaps you need a different approach.
“Exercise snacking” may solve your problems as it doesn’t mean stopping in the middle of the workout and grabbing a snack; it means doing 5-minute workouts whenever you find time during the day. Surely you can step away from the desk for five or ten minutes and do some squats or push-ups, or if you have the place to store them, lift some weights for five minutes.
Any activity is better than none and it can be even better to regularly take breaks from sitting than to sit for 8+ hours in a row then do a 1-hour workout.
