Over time people fall away from their exercise habits, life gets in the way so to speak. It is common for personal trainers to simply place blame on laziness and lack of commitment. While discipline and personal responsibility is a serious issue there really is quite a bit more to it.

Exercise science is born from athletics and most sport requires primarily endurance and skill. Sport is designed to be limited in nature (limited to specific goals) and to get good at a sport takes much practice. Thus when being physical on purpose (better known as exercise) the more time spent practicing the better, seems like a natural fit. The problem is in everyday life there’s only so much time and exercise is often the easiest thing to “put off”.

We rather treat exercise as a foundation to sport and life. What you then do, as a branch off from that foundation, can fit with your schedule not the other way around. This allows people to fluctuate the amount of time commitment as life ebbs and flows…..without falling out of the habit and losing all they have worked for. We suggest workouts which are personalized enough and intense enough to get the exercise effect in minimum time. When you have time to do it more often great but when you have less you are “still getting it done”.

Make you workouts matter, focus on the intensity not the fluff. Drop most of the stuff you can already do with medium effort and give your time and energy to the truly challenging elements. Change comes from being far out of your comfort zone…..spend your valuable exercise time there. This way even a short workout or two each week will be hugely impactful on your body and health.

Be well, be strong,

Andrew and Tierney