The one thing I hear the most from people is just how little time they have to exercise. How we spend our time is just a reflection of where our priorities are. If there is the will you will always find the way. The desire has to just be for what the workout provides you rather than hoping to just get excited about the workout it’s self.

During my 5 years in the military I spent just about everyday doing some sort of workout. I learned that if you didn’t have access to the gym or time to go to the gym you simply got to be creative. I think everyone in the military is taught to improvise, adapt and overcome.

I do know I got very tired of doing hundreds of push-ups. It wasn’t long before I found ways to spice things up. Instead of just regular boring push-ups I would mix push-ups with other exercises. I would do push-ups on dumbbells so that I could add exercises between push-ups like rows, kickbacks, concentration curls, and front raises all from a push-up position. Fun stuff and the other exercise made the push-ups much more difficult.

I used to bring my dumbbells back and forth from home and work using my sea bag and one day I wanted to run with my pack and needed some weight so I took the weights from my sea bag to add to my pack. After running a couple of miles I realized just how painful the weights had become as they slapped against my back. Perhaps I should have just sucked up, but I felt I could find an easier way to add weight.