If it’s hard for you to block out a chunk of time in your day to walk or do any other exercise, try spending just a few minutes every hour exercising, suggests McDonald.
“If you can get five minutes every hour, that’s going to add up throughout the day,” she says.
Just add it to your calendar and set a timer for five minutes, she adds. If you’re working an eight-hour-day, it adds up to 40 minutes a day.
“That’s 40 minutes that you did something, and it wasn’t a 40-minute chunk that you had to pull out of your day,” she says. Health guidelines recommend at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise every week. And those 40-minute daily activities will help add to the weekly goal, she adds.
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