From My Office To The Gym – How My Running Belt Helps Me Workout
As a PA to a very busy woman, I am on the go and fully occupied 9 hours of the working day (and sometimes a few more hours than that!), giving me little time for other activities during the week. After two years on this hectic schedule, and not having enough time to need my personal fitness needs, I decided enough was enough and begun to look for solutions to help me along my way.
Among my vast and varied research I had fallen upon various preparation shortcuts and hacks that would help me prepare for my transition between work and fitness. My running belt was one of those items that has kept me from becoming a “lazy Lizzie” so to speak.
Having to be on call most of the day, I tend to become paranoid if I can’t reach my phone within 3 rings, so my running belt really came in handy when it came to ease of storage and access of my android phone. It also helped me store my car keys as I locked up everything in my car, and began my job straight away from the office’s basement parking, all the way to downtown, which is approx. 3 kilometres each way.
Busy life Vs Active life with a running belt
Keeping busy is easy, nowadays between work, family, social life, and the world wide web, we are constantly busy or entertained in some way. Keeping busy this way doesn’t mean you are keeping healthy or fit – but merely means that you are occupying your time, most probably sitting down to talk, work or chill out.
Just two years of this unhealthy lifestyle and I had left myself in a very unhealthy state, with aching hip joints, poor posture and back pain from top to bottom, literally! So I set about to change my bad habits and repeated to myself, that a busy life isn’t a healthy life. To become healthy and lead a balanced life, I needed to get myself back into gear and back into a healthy diet and lifestyle.
With my running belt I had no only saved myself time and worry, but I also began to feel confident in letting go of the same old excuses we use to “let ourselves off” having to workout.
The beginning wasn’t easy, I could hardly walk 2 kilometres, let alone jog 3 each way! But slowly and surely, I pushed myself just enough to get my limbs working right and within 3 months I was well on my way to getting fit again.
Having my running belt meant I didn’t have to worry about my personal items being lost or stolen, and they were easily accessible to me when I needed them. Thankfully it rarely occurs that my boss calls me while I am out on a jog, but just having access to my phone is really comforting to me – especially in the case on an emergency.
All in all, this was one of the best decisions of my life, and having the time to help myself get in shape and run away the stress of the day a part of my daily routine I look forward to the most.