If you are a motivated, rather busy person, and want the stability, strength and the powerful ability to perform at your best, virtually risk free from acute lifestyle injuries… having a personal fitness system that enables you to be fit for power will be especially attractive to you.
Your personal fitness system will change rather consistently through your weeks, months and years to come as your circumstances and fitness goals change. It will enable you to get better fitness results in any time you make available, in a way that is as challenging and fun as you want it to be.
Fit for Power© is the basic training plan for the Performance Lifestyle. It is part mindset, part lifestyle, part training solution; but its emphasis is on how to exercise or "train" for consistent development and maintenance of a healthy high performance body.
Fit for Power, is not about getting ready for a bodybuilding or a weight transformation contest, even though transformation you will see. The focus is on health and performance.
See www.MyTrainer.com for great exercise ideas you can model, and to meet trainers who will inspire, educate and support you. We will be referencing MyTrainer’s videos throughout this blog.
The way we think about fitness is changing; it no longer has to be an all too time-consuming, energy-draining and hard-to-stick-with commitment. Part of the foundation of our lives, fundamental to living successfully, developing fitness can be viewed as a normal and natural part of our day. Every other animal on the planet essentially views fitness this way, without even thinking about it.
We already have the ultimate gym as our disposal, our own body and its weight. We just need to learn how to use it and challenge it in functional ways in our own natural environment, using low cost, portable, and ultra versatile fitness gear, and at any of the great facilities we have access to.
Too often people think they have to go to a gym or own expensive home gym equipment to get fit, whereas in a Performance Lifestyle, we utilize the spectrum; from bodyweight exercise in any environment, to gyms, to health clubs; whatever we have at our disposal to support our objectives.
Again, too often people hold out seeking the perfect exercise program or routine, falling for marketing over principles, practices and training strategies. When they think they’ve found the perfect program, it works for a little while, and then things change. It becomes too hard to stick with, for one reason or another, particularly when it’s overly structured and dependent on travel, repetition or other conflicting variables, and before you know it, most have "fallen off the wagon" (in their minds). It just doesn’t need to be this way.
The reality is there is no perfect approach to training, other than the one that fits you and your objectives in any given moment of time. Fitness experts themselves are far more flexible than you might think, even when training for an event. Their approach to fitness is lifestyle-based and based on being able to exercise and train in more situations, and therefore more consistently than most other people.
Life is dynamic; it changes, sometimes fast; making it easy to get derailed from workout plans that are not flexible or convenient. Learn how to change your routine to fit your situation, and your ability to get fit and stay that way, improves dramatically.
Consider this: it’s a Sunday night; a parent like you perhaps, plans on going to the gym Monday morning, but her child is up late with homework and needs her help. She also has to prepare for a meeting later Monday morning. She doesn’t get to bed until 2 am. Her exercise time is scheduled for 6:30am. The buzzer goes off; she’s tired and can’t get it going. The trip to the gym, the workout, and all the logistics seem daunting before work. She knows she’ll be dragging so she decides to sleep in, eat and get her day started on a better foot; but she feels guilty nonetheless.
Commonly, people think, they "couldn’t stick with it". This thinking is self defeating and goes with the mindset reinforced in most commercials exercise programs.
For some a decision like that does mean guilt, thinking they’re not motivated; for others, they just won’t feel as good; they have less confidence and they feel less productive when they haven’t worked out. And this may be true, if you don’t have a personal fitness system, as part of your performance lifestyle, where you can change plans and come up with new routines on the fly.
The top 3 reasons why people don’t workout, is simply this:
1. They don’t feel like they have the time, space or the energy.
2. They don’t know how
3. They aren’t flexible to their changing environment
With the current "program" mentality around training, many people don’t feel like they can sustain it and therefore never start; if they do, and it’s not flexible to changes in their daily routine, they find they’re off the program more than on and are rarely consistent. Since they are taught to "stick with the program" and avoid missing workouts, as if the reasons why were merely excuses, they basically avoid the inevitable guilt.
This is ridiculous!
In a Performance Lifestyle, you learn that dealing with circumstances in an empowered way, is part of the lifestyle.
To this point, there is good news; when you take a more personal approach to fitness, backed by a lifestyle you can call your own, the scenario above will be old news.
It’s time to purposely get off your program and get into a fitness oriented lifestyle, with your own personal fitness system for success. There is a time and place for more regimented training on a periodic basis, but not as the status quo in your life, unless perhaps you are a bodybuilder or obsessed with fitness. The Fit for Power blog does not cater to you if you are that person.
Fitness can be developed in literally "minutes" at a time, anytime, when you have a mindset that supports this outcome and an approach that makes it a reality.
As long as you are NOT trying to use exercise as a primary way to make up for a diet and lifestyle that promotes the overweight condition, and actually focus on fitness, you will be amazed at how simple, quick and easy it can be to not only get fit, for power and stay that way.
John Allen Mollenhauer is the Founder of MyTrainer.com where fitness video’s are free for everybody! He is also the founder Performance Lifestyle Solutions, the better healthier ways to achieve your goals in life, business and sport. As a former worn down workaholic turned healthy high achiever John Allen (aka “JAM”) will teach you how to Live Like a Pro, optimizing your lifestyle the way athletes do. He is the creator of the Healthy High Achiever – Unleash the Full Potential of Your Lifestyle to Perform, Look and Feel Better!
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