Here's a trick: find a friend who you feel you can't bail on and who won't bail on you. Pick a regular time you can both attend. Find some exercise/sport you bo

Here's a trick: find a friend who you feel you can't bail on and who won't bail on you. Pick a regular time you can both attend. Find some exercise/sport you both enjoy. Now, if it's just your one friend, you'll feel bad bailing, and so will they. Additionally, if it's a reasonably social activity, you'll combine socialising and exercise. Alternatively, do this with the gf. As long as you won't let each other off the hook, that is.. Something else that worked really well for me for a while was a small running/dinner club. We'd all get together one evening and go for a fairly social, chatty run, followed by dinner at one attendee's place. Burgers, pizza, whatever, something that's pretty quick and easy to toss together. Again, mixing socialising and exercise. The only reason this has stopped happening is because I've temporarily stopped running due to injury. One more thing: I suspect anything less than 30 minutes a day of exercise is sort of "free" time. Many people report feeling more alert and getting better sleep with regular exercise. So you may regain that 30 minutes per day with increased productivity, or possibly even less time sleeping due to better sleep. (Citation needed!).