RETURNING to work after the festive break is no easy feat - and fitting in a gym routine can feel like an impossibility.
Workaholic Britons are blaming their job for giving the gym a wide berth, according to new research.
A further one in three surveyed used the family as an excuse for "accidentally on-purpose" forgetting about the gym, LA Fitness found.
January may be the month when diets, detoxes and celebrity fitness DVDs are flung down our throats but that doesn't make the fitness Holy Grail any easier.
EXPERTS recommend exercising for 45-60 minutes a day to achieve weight loss and maintain fitness.
Women who split their exercise into 10-minute blasts were more likely to exercise consistently - and lost more weight over five months - than women who exercised for 20-40 minutes at a time, according to a study from the university of pittsburgh school of medicine.
So if you really can't make time in the week, do something at weekends.
Otherwise, snatch half an hour at the gym in your lunchbreak or go for a run around the block before work.
Gym bunnies with time ticking on the clock should opt for 'compound' exercises.
These exercises work more than one muscle at the same time, so instead of doing something like a tricep dip do a press-up.
Also try to keep your heart going the whole time. Circuit training is a really good way to achieve that.
YOU don't have to have a monthly membership to join the world of fitness.
Buy a fitness dvd - just choose the exercises and person that appeals most to you.
If you're clueless about setting up a home routine, try investing in one or two sessions with a personal trainer to show you the light.
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