You say you want to increase your fitness and lose weight, but does your lifestyle reflect that? Do you have every intention to exercise when you wake up thinking today will be the day to get started, yet, still find yourself going to bed disappointed in yourself?

You are not alone, for many, it can seem impossible to find time to exercise. This might be a good time to examine that it is not just a question of time rather than that self care is not a priority for you. After all it is likely that lots of people who are busier than you are exercising right now.

The activities we choose in life are based on what we consider our highest priorities. Most people when asked what their number one top priority is state their health is top of the list. If this is so how is it that we each manage to watch television for an average of three hours per day but have no time to exercise?

Proper exercise is so beneficial to ones health and long term quality of life and so instrumental in helping decrease many disease risk factors, that it is hard to believe that anyone would make time in their day for television watching but not for workout time.

Somehow there has been a shift and a conscious choice to make health and fitness such a low priority that it doesn't even make the short list. Maybe it is time to take a look at what other items are high on your priority list that may need to be re-evaluated. If time for exercise is not making your short list, then its time to be honest with yourself - are there really that many activities that should be considered more important than one that improves your health?

Maybe you could take a few minutes and write down what occupies your time every hour of the day for a week. This will give you an overview of where your time is being spent and maybe even wasted. Hopefully this will help you find ways to de-prioritize some items in order to find just two hours per week to fit in something so important to your life that you will not believe you let it slip off your personal priority list.

The reason that you only need two hours is that if you start a proper exercise program that includes strength training exercise you will not be wasting time performing activities that will do little to nothing to improve your fitness and strength. Only the right exercise, performed at the right intensity for the right duration and frequency will give you outstanding results in a minimum of time spent each week.

To get the most out of your time it is also important to enlist the help of a fitness professional to set up your program and teach you how to perform it properly. It is also important that this program is changed regularly and your progress monitored. Your program may need to be tweaked and changed to personalize it for you.

A bonus for you will be you will find that with your improved strength and fitness you will have more endurance, stamina and energy. You will be able to fly through the rest of your daily tasks and activities with ease. In other words the time spent on your exercise program will give you more time not take it away from you.

Although it is not the easiest thing in the world making exercise a habit, it does not have to be the equivalent of moving a mountain either. It simply starts with making a decision and is followed by taking an action. That action may mean picking up the phone and making an appointment at your local gym or fitness center to get started and there is no better time to start than now.