OK, so you don't have the time to train...
I understand, everything else just seems to get in your
way. Your work, your home life, your social life. The thing
that often gets missed is your physical fitness training
and training specifically for your sport.
Why is it that the one thing that can make such a
difference to your OVERALL well being gets cut out... It
seems that it is always the after thought.
Time is a very precious commodity, once it has gone it
cannot be reclaimed, got back or reversed! As a busy
professional, you are by definition "busy".
You are busy with work commitments, busy doing "busy stuff"
that takes up huge proportions of your time, you have a
busy social life associated to your work life, networking
is key to your career progression and professional standing.
This problem affects corporate athletes of all levels. If
you are an aspiring Olympic athlete, but NEED a career as
well working to supplement your sport. Or, you are a
weekend golfer, rugby or soccer player who happens to be a
Director, VP or CEO of a multinational company, the
restrictions on your time are the same.
If only you had more time to train, your game could be that
little bit better, taking you to club, regional or national
championship level! The ultimate cost of this show-stopper
is lost opportunities to fully enjoy your sport. It will
leave you with too many "if-only" and "what-if" questions
later in life.
Also the opportunity for social and professional networking
is lost too. This means missed business or promotion
opportunities, because you don't play golf, or the rest of
the management team play for the local soccer or rugby team
and you don't.
However, your perception of how much time a training
program actually takes may be slightly off the mark... and
it really does not need to eat into your work commitments,
social commitments, or your home life.
Gone are the days of ineffective, slow, bring cardio
workouts requiring you to spend hours on the treadmill, or
pounding the pavement early each morning, or late every
night. Studies have shown that this is largely pointless
for the majority of sports, and in many cases detrimental
to your overall physical health.
Such training can very quickly cause repetitive strain
injuries, structural health problems, specifically ankle,
knee and hip joint problems as well as being an influencing
factor in back pain.
What's more, this style of training has been shown to be as
much as 9 times LESS effective for fat burning than other
methods that take a fraction of the time!
Workouts can be much more focussed, getting you further
towards your health and fitness goals can be done in a
fraction of the time, leaving "Time" to be a POOR excuse
rather than a legitimate reason for not training.
So what kind of training am I talking about, what can you
do in a short time that will be effective for your sporting
as well as health related goals?
OK, lets put it this way, if you are on the gym floor for
more than 45 minutes, you are probably wasting an awful lot
of time chatting, or doing exercises that really don't
achieve an awful lot.
Exercise routines that focus on more "bang for your buck"
movements and intensities.
For example, stay away from the machines, they "isolate"
individual muscles and can cause muscular imbalances and
have little reflection on how you use your body during your
game.
Don't waste your time on doing a million reps of abdominal
crunches, bicep curls, tricep extensions or calf raises.
They do very little for you in the overall scheme of your
training, and are a massive waste of time where the muscles
can be utilised during other exercises anyway.
The exercises to focus on working the large muscle groups,
use movement patterns that reflect your sport and work to
massively boost your metabolism. We are talking Squats,
Lunges, Deadlifts, rows, and push ups...
Learning to do each of these fundamental exercises will
massively reduce your time in the gym, give you a really
effective workout for fat burning and improving your
sporting ability.
A keen water skier who is also works as a legal consult in
a very busy bank here in Luxembourg, discovered that
getting her workouts done in under 40 minutes meant that
she never entertained the fact of missing a workout, the
time issue never became an issue. Even after a few short
months with this renewed focus on exercises that really
made the difference, she had lost weight, dropped a
clothing size and saw massive gains in her skiing
performance too.
So you can see that there really is no need to waste time
doing all your long slow cardio workouts. The biggest
question for you now, is with time no longer a valid
excuse, you really cannot miss your workouts anymore!
Go to the Gym tomorrow and try out the basic moves, if you
don't know how to do them, there are plenty of explanations
all over the internet, or you can contact an experienced
personal trainer to help you.
Take action today and don't waste another minute of your
time!
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Tim Goodwin is a fitness professional specializing in help
the busiest people achieve more with their amateur sporting
interests, and at the same time ridding them of excess body
fat. Visit http://www.corporateathletehandbook.com to get a
free 18 page report "How to lose weight even when you are
really busy" containing a full 4 week program which you can
start today!
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