How to be more consistent with your Fitness...

There's no question you already know you should be working out on a regular basis. After all, exercise will not only keep you fit and feeling full of energy, it'll also help you live a long, healthy and active life.

But if you're like most people, you're also probably really good at making excuses not to work out. Because let's face it: you're busy. And although you know that working out should be a top priority, life too often gets in the way. So, here are some tricks to keep a consistent workout schedule :

1. Do shorter workouts

If you belief that you need to spend an hour or more in the gym to get in shape is the reason you're not working out consistently, here's some good news: it doesn't actually take that long. All you really need is 10 or 15 minutes of exercise. Role of exercise is just 20% in your fitness rest is Healthy eating habits and your lifestyle.

2. Commit for just 21 days

Another way to create a lifelong exercise habit is to start by committing to just 21 days of consistent exercise. Pick a number of days you want to work out, then tell yourself you'll stick to that.. giving yourself permission that if you don't like it at the end, you don't have to continue. More likely than not, at the end of the 21 days you'll notice you feel stronger, more energized and like the way your clothes fit better, and you won't want to stop working out. If you get to this point, congratulations — you've created an exercise habit.

3. Schedule it

If you're still having trouble working out consistently, another trick is to actually build your workouts into your schedule. This should come naturally to you if you're already used to scheduling your time in meetings, soccer practices, appointments and other activities. So if you ideally want to work out three times a week, but life always seems to get in the way, just take out your calendar, your phone, or whatever you use to keep track of your time and actually schedule your workouts. Put it in a time slot, then treat it just as you would any other appointment: as non-negotiable. This will make it much more likely that you don't let something else get in the way of your workouts, and eventually help you build a workout habit for life.