A well balanced diet may be difficult to fit into your schedule, but an exercise routine may be even more difficult to adopt. With most fast food restaurants offering healthy alternative meal choices, a healthy, diet is now a little easier to create. However, that doesn’t really help in the exercise department.

Exercise is just as important as diet when it comes to being healthy and for most of us even a short workout is hard to fit into our busy schedules. What usually happens is we start an exercise routine, miss a few days and then drop the program all together. If this sounds familiar then maybe a 10 minute quick cardio workout will work best for you.

You know any exercise is much better than no exercise so give it a try. You might not think 1o minutes will help you much but the benefits of a 10 minute cardio workout may be more than you think.

If you are the running type you can probably easily run a mile in 10 minutes. Running a 10 minute mile will burn about 100 calories. It doesn’t sound like much but that’s an average weight loss of almost 1 pound per month. Again it doesn’t sound like much but you could drop a few sizes over the course of several months if you make it a routine.

If you don’t like to run you can achieve similar benefits from other cardio workouts. There are many short cardio workout videos that involve your  your entire body which provides great calorie burning benefits.

Exercise doesn’t have to be painful and it doesn’t have to be an hour long event. Start with small steps, make exercise fun and make it a habit. You’ll soon start to see great benefits from your effort.