Burning calories

Trainers are often incorrect when "prescribing" 30-45 minutes of cardio a day.  Yes this is beneficial for weight loss and general health but the common misconception is that it must be all performed in one shot (ie: 30 minutes straight).  In reality, long durations of aerobic exercise do induce more fat burning but calories are calories.  If you can only dedicate 3 separate 10 minute jogs throughout the day then you are still burning the same amount of calories had you jogged for 30 minutes one time.

This is a good instance to initiate "commercial workouts" with youself, your family, and your kids.  If you have tv time at night then it would be beneficial to exercise when the commercials come on.  Push-ups, squats, crunches, running around the room, or even jumping rope.

When doing this you will still accumulate the same amount of calories burned in a standard workout but it was just broken up over a longer timeframe.

Calories are calories!

Simplifying workouts

If you get easily overwhelmed when entering the gym and don't even know where to start your workout because of all of the different equipment then just focus on one type of thing to use for the entire workout.

Example:

Do a BOSU only workout.  Everything is centered around the BOSU.  You stand on it to do your bicep curls and shoulder raises, you jump on and off of it for cardio, you squat on it, you do your pushups on it, and you do your crunches and planks on it.   You have used the BOSU ball to simplify a complex workout by maintaining focus on one type of equipment the entire time and not straying from it.

Juicing oranges

Using a potato peeler to lightly skin the colored peel off of an orange will remove the outermost layer and leave the white pulpy flesh of the rind still intact and on the orange.  This part of the rind contains a lot of nutrition that we can utilize when juicing without the bitterness contributed by the outermost peel.  If you have juiced an orange whole then you will know the bitter taste I am talking about.  This takes less time than actually peeling an orange and the shavings can be sent down the garbage disposal to cleanse your sink.