Health & Wellbeing

Life in lockdown

How to boost your exercise motivation

By Bethany Elliott-Hutton

Struggling with motivation to exercise? Here are 5 top tips on how to keep fit, focused and moving during lockdown, regardless of which tier you are in!

As COVID-19 persists and the country remains in tiered lockdown, it’s not surprising that many of us have lost interest in our home workouts and exercise routines. As lockdown continues we ask ourselves how do we stop our motivation to exercise from dwindling? Exercise has been proven to have many benefits, here’s a few that might entice you to dust off your running trainers and yoga mats. Exercise not only benefits our physical health but also plays a key role in maintaining good mental health. During and after exercising hormones known as endorphins are released. This hormone helps us deal with stress, pain and boosts our mood! As well as an increase in circulating endorphins, your body also experiences a healthy spike in the amount of oxygenated blood circulating post exercise. Increased levels of oxygen in your blood is a natural energizer that will help make those looming work tasks and tricky conversations with your boss a little bit more manageable. So you may be saying, yes this all sounds great, but how do I keep myself motivated to exercise?

Here are 5 top tips to keep yourself motivated to exercise during lockdown.

For more information on how to effectively boost your exercise motivation please feel free to contact bodytonic clinic at bodytonicclinic.co.uk and one of our team members will be happy to answer any of your questions.

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It’s important to plan any pass up on.workouts into your daily schedule. A workout first thing 4. Mix it up - don’t think that in the morning may work best every workout has to be a for those struggling to start the high intensity, heart pumping, day with a spring in their step. energetic endeavour. Mix

The endorphins released during up your workout routines exercise can dramatically help by adding in some gentle increase energy levels for the yoga, meditation or breathing day ahead. Make sure to give sessions. Slowing down our yourself some accountability by breath and taking time out of writing down how and when you plan to exercise, this will make you more likely to do it! our day to relax can help calm our nervous system down. 2. Pre workout prep - set up your workout area at the beginning of the day. Make sure you have enough space for those side lunges or burpees! There is nothing more annoying than hitting your hand on a lampshade during a set of jumping jacks. Ensuring your 5. Little and often - an hours exercise a day can sometimes feel a little bit daunting. If you haven’t got enough time, you may want to think about breaking up your workouts into 3x20 min sessions a day. This will make it feel more manageable. space is ready to use gets you in the workout mindset and gives you less excuse not to get stuck in. If you are injured, in pain or need some guidance on returning to exercise then the team at bodytonic clinic are here to help. 3. Keep it social - sometimes We have a team of experienced exercising on our own can osteopaths, physiotherapists and get monotonous and boring. clinical pilates instructors who are

Try and make your sessions here to help you return to your more interesting by working optimal health and get back to out with someone in your the exercise that you love.