20 Minute Workouts – No excuses

How has your week been? This past week was one of my busiest ever Personal Training clients! I had some great conversations with clients on establishing goals, a game plan and how we are going to get them there.

People are all differently motivated.  It’s important to write down your goals and where you want to go.  Keep track of eating habits and your activity consistence.   Drink plenty of clean water throughout the day, minimize sugars, pastas, junk food, fast food, sweets, alcohol.  Do your best to eat organic foods as much as possible.  If you are able to control what you put into your body, you will see results happen!

We are offering a 100 Day Challenge at our club which I find is quite appealing!  For 100 days, track your activity level of 30 minutes of more.  Everything counts! Inside and outside of the gym.  The key is to be active on a consistent basis if you want to see results! The goal of that program is to encourage activity through our Winter months and hopefully when Spring comes around, you are now active regularly! Take it upon yourself to be consistent at least 3 times a week!

It’s been an interesting week talking to clients as some are still saying it’s hard to find time.  To me it’s prioritizing.  No matter how busy your day is, you should always have time for yourself to do something active.

There are mini workouts that can be done in fifteen minutes if you like! It’s all in what you put into it.

In a previous post I suggested doing 5 chin ups, 10 pushups, 15 squats and repeat for 15-20 minutes.  Click here

People are sometimes fixated on the fact they need to workout for 60 minutes.  This is untrue! Anything is better then nothing but you don’t need to workout for an hour.  Most people don’t have an hour to go to a gym and workout.  Click here

My suggestion when you are really tight on time is to do intervals.  This can be done on a rowing machine, treadmill, elliptical, stair climber, or even running outside.  Make sure you are warmed up and then increase your speed into a sprint for 15-30 seconds.  Follow up by the same or slightly more recovery based on your fitness level.  Repeat for 15-20 minutes then cool down.

This is a proven and effective way to burn body fat off and expend calories! This should hopefully take away the excuses that you don’t have time to workout! With strength training I put my clients through mini circuits.  For example, a push exercise, pull, squat/lunge, and agility type movement.

When you perform 4 exercises in a row without a break it’s a great way to get a lot done in a shorter amount of time!

I have plenty of workout examples and close to 200 exercises in my 90 Day Overhaul eBook.  Check it out!!

I hope you enjoy your weekend and feel free to message me if you have any questions!