No matter how busy your life is, finding room in it for exercise will help you cope and make you feel better. That doesn’t mean you have to find the money to join a gym and be down there crunching and pressing and running and squatting every day. Nothing wrong with that if it works for you, but nothing wrong with you if it doesn’t work. Or just doesn’t happen.
It’s easy to fall prey to the feeling that large chunks of your life must be devoted to formal exercise of some kind. But while that’s certainly one option, there are lots of other ways to make exercise work for you, and not the other way around. And there are Rules worth bearing in mind even if you do run every morning before breakfast and then go to the gym for an hour after work.
Some of us just don’t enjoy running or aerobics or lifting weights, and some of us would love to do it but can’t find time between kids and work and running the house and looking after our ageing parents or whatever. And that’s all fine. It’s perfectly possible to get the exercise you need regardless of your life and your enjoyment – or otherwise – of taking exercise. You just need to approach it in the way that works for you, which is what these next few Rules are all about.