Finding Time For Exercise Just Got Easier, with I Free Time For Fitness

Adults need at least 2 and a half hours a week of moderate intensity aerobic activity and muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days a week, according the Center for Disease Control. Pushing a lawn mower in your garden, to taking a dance class, to cycling to the store – all of these count as aerobic activity. As long as you're doing them at a moderate or vigorous intensity for at least 10 minutes at a time.

With the intensive muscle-strengthening actives, these include lifting weights, resistance work, and any other type of heavy lifting or push ups and lift ups.

Busy lifestyles put pressure on us to perform multiple roles in the workplace and in the home, with barely enough time to fit exercise in the schedule. Statistics show that at least 40% of us do not exercise on a regular basis. If you’ve ever had difficulty finding the time to exercise, then there could be options to free up some time.

On average we’re spending over 10 hours a week online during leisure times, according to Nielsen. Much of this time is spent communicating with friends and family, and doing vital shopping, banking and other activities that are nowadays done online to save money. There could be room to ask yourself the question "do I really need ten more minutes of reading the news, or being on Facebook, or on any of my favourite sites?"

A recent survey of students in the UK found that 43% of them felt they were spending too much time online, to the detriment of their studies. There is research showing that across different generations, we have become addicted to information. The Internet feeds this habit, but at what cost? If you’re not exercising as much as you could, then could there be room to cut internet time?

A new application called I Free Time for Fitness has been developed to enable PC users to block any type of distraction, including websites, games and email. The net effect is to improve focus whilst on the computer, so that time is freed for other activities including exercise. As the CDC points out, even ten minutes of vigorous exercise helps, so with I Free Time for Fitness, every minute counts.