Low Investment Workout Tips

Fight your busyness trap and pick a low-investment workout. Mihika Pai makes every minute count.

- Mihika Pai

Justifying the lack of a regimented fitness routine is as easy as rolling off a log. We’re all well-equipped with excuses, the most popular of which — and one that requires zero creativity — is the lack of time. But let’s be honest for a second. If you were to add up all the hours spent watching reruns of Grey’s Anatomy, sprucing up Pinterest boards, stalking high school nemeses on Instagram or even getting a blowout at the salon, you’d see that time isn’t really the problem.

The blame falls on our idea of exercise — a time-slowing, zero-fun routine that delays its benefits by far too long. In reality, it’s almost exactly the opposite. Exercise is all about instant gratification; the happy endorphins a workout releases make you more energetic, help battle anxiety and bring an overall feeling of positivity. “Any workout is better that no workout,” says Pilates expert Namrata Purohit in her book