Steveer Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is how to make time to work out.

The quick and dirty tip is to make your workouts a priority.

It's scarier than it sounds.

Mark from Los Angeles writes in. Do you have any suggestions for how

to get in shape? It's a time management issue. Work-life balance is a juggling act. Exercising has gone

out the window. It's almost a choice between sleeping or exercising. I sure do have some ideas.

Oh, Mark, I feel your pain. I too once would ooze into my chair when I sat down, content and fluffy with an ever-expanding

waistline. And why change? I grew rounder and rounder. After all, isn't a circle the most divine of all

shapes? Eventually, whether seen from above and front behind or the side, I would have the perfect shape,

a beautiful, unbroken circle. Then I outgrew my suit. My zipper wouldn't zip? Now I was faced with a choice.

Do I own up to my age and buy bigger polyester pants with a waistline that comes up to my nipples?

Or do I lose weight,

tone up and return to the spectacular body of my geeky youth? Well, duh, I worship superficial appearances just as much as the next person. Off to the gym. And golly, workouts are hard.

I went once and I still didn't fit into my suit. This was not promising. I put on my get-it-done

hat and came to a horrifying realization. You can't streamline exercise. You can't delegate it.

Since using momentum means less muscle effort, you can't just go pump, pump, pump,

and double-time your way through. And then to add insult injury, you need recovery time

between sets. So there's no getting

around it taking time. Here's what worked. Make the gym top priority. Really, top priority. It goes on

your schedule before any other commitments, even above work, family and sleep. Only for the gravest

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