One of the points that I keep harping on is being efficient in your training. Most of us have busy lives and can’t afford to spend all day wandering around the gym wasting precious time. We need to get into the gym, be productive, and get out.
Unfortunately that’s something you rarely see. Usually people come into the gym, start out on some sort of cardio machine, then sort of fool around for the next hour or two then wander back out. If this is you, then do you wonder why you’re not seeing the results that you want? Even if you do lift some solid weight chances are you’re spending way too much time in the gym.
By increasing your training efficiency you can gain extra time throughout your day, you’ll drop fat, and you’ll increase your work capacity. Whether you’re a competitive athlete or a weekend warrior those are all important improvements. Here are five tips that you can implement today that will speed your training and improve your workouts.
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This is an excerpt from an e-course that I’m releasing later this week:
On Consistency:
In my blog and my fitness business I preach (and some would say harp) on a few topics over and over again. The reason I do that is because it’s those topics that will make or break a fitness and nutrition program. Just like in business, your social life, and most anything else, the old “80/20″ rule seems to apply to fitness. That means that you’ll get about 80% of your progress from 20% of the things you do. So obviously those are the real keys and what you should focus on.
One of my favorite keys to harp on is consistency. Even a poor program (not that you should follow one) will achieve far more success if it is done day in and day out than a great program that is rarely followed will. That’s one of the big reasons that I decided to create this log book product. My own training exploded when I started consistently logging my results and examining them. The more consistent I was in my logging, the more consistent I became in my training, and the greater my results were.
When I’ve slipped in my training and not seen the results that I’m looking for, I can almost always trace that back to times when I wasn’t keeping a good log. There are times when I’ve been busy or injured or just taking a break and I got lazy about the log book. Sure enough, those times always seemed to stretch just a little further than they should, or I’d have a hard time getting restarted.
So learn to embrace consistency when it comes to getting in the best shape of your life. Not every workout has to put you on your ass, and not every meal has to be a chicken breast with celery. However, every workout and every meal should have some quality that is going to make you better than you were before. THAT is consistency, and that will build progress.
Thoughts?
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