Time is a very precious commodity, once it has gone it
cannot be reclaimed, got back or reversed! The busy
professional, by definition is "busy". So making time to do
a workout or even your sports specific training is often an
after thought.
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 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.
The time required to train for sports is not as intensive
as you may imagine. Workouts that are effective to lose
weight and get you back into some kind of physical fitness
also don't require a huge investment in time.
You'll be happy to learn that workouts need not take hours
out of your day. In fact 20-40 minute workouts can see you
excelling at your chosen sport, far beyond your current
levels. AND at the same time lose the belly too.
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.
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.
If I were to tell you that 20-25 of cardio workouts was
"enough" to make substantial improvements in body shape and
highly effective for sports conditioning, would you feel
that this was within the realms of possibility in your time
restricted life?
Short, sharp but effective high intensity interval workouts
can produce some startling results in a matter of weeks.
Marco, a senior partner for a multinational accountancy
firm, found the 25 minute interval routines fitted neatly
into his morning routine. Sacrificing only a few minutes
less in bed of a morning. The result, a pant size less in a
matter of 28 days and plenty more energy and effectiveness
at the office too.
The big caveat to this is with most busy professionals, you
need to sacrifice a portion of your day to fit this type of
workout in, however this is less of an ask than an hour
long run that you would usually think of doing.
Start today, get your running shoes on, or get to the local
gym and jump on your favourite cardio machine and hammer
out an interval routine today.
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For a highly effective interval routine plus other time
saving workouts, claim your free e-report "How to lose
weight even when you are really busy" at
http://www.corporateathletehandbook.com/ . Tim Goodwin is a
fitness professional from Luxembourg, training the busiest
individuals to achieve amateur sporting success and a
healthier body. Feel free to duplicate this article with
the bio and link intact.
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