Brief, Intense and Consistent
Ironically, most people are simply out of alignment with all three of these concepts and that’s why they are not fit for power!
What do they do?
They think they need to exercise for long periods of time, as if more was better. They do "slow boring cardio", and the same exercises as yesterday, at the same weight, for "4 sets of 10 reps"… same thing they did last week. They don’t challenge themselves and things never change, like their body.
This bores the living daylights out of most people and because they over train, they can’t sustain. They get depleted, on top of everything else in their life and naturally they don’t see the results they want.
This combination of over training, feeling depleted and poor results, ultimately means inconsistency.
Sound familiar?
What people forget is that fitness in todays day and age is "mass bodybuilding" and obsessive for a variety of reasons I can’t get into in this post. I am a former bodybuilder and know this obsession. I’ll post a few pictures of old in my next post. Yet still to this day I embody the desire to build my body, but I know the principles at play and they don’t define how I stay fit on a day to day basis.
My goals are different.
See my recent posts on the subject.
Bodybuilders have building their body as a sort of business as their goal. And athletes too have sport as their occupation! This is not the case for the person who’s business may be marketing, or construction or something else; who sees fitness as something they maintain in their life, not the goal itself. They want high levels of fitness, but still fitness is not the goal itself like it is in bodybuilding and sport.
Now anyone who knows me, knows that I teach athletic principles for healthy goal achievement, in Performance Lifestyle training, and the one thing I do to be succesful at this is, is I change the context.
Fitness principles in the context of goal achievement outside of body building or sporting endeavors are applied similarly, but very different at the same time. Major shifts take place in mode and expectations.
The reason so many people are unsuccessful maintaining their fitness is because they don’t understand fitness in the context of life and lifestyle where the goals are not ripped bodies and sporting success. You can have both, but in order to have both you need the lifestyle that supports the outcomes and this is what most people don’t have!
It’s very difficult to train like a bodybuilder or sports athlete on top of an already full schedule, that is not set up to support the the outcomes these people seek. Your lifestyle has to support in every way, the outcomes you seek, if it doesn’t you will not be able to "stick with it".
You don’t have to stick with stuff in an effortful way, what your lifestyle supports. That will happen naturally.
The reason why brief, intense and consistent are the 3 magic words in fitness, is this… for the people who’s business is outside bodybuilding and sports, it is the only sustainable way train and maintain the levels of fitness you want.
When you don’t understand these 3 magic words, chances are you are struggling with obsessiveness in an attempt to overcome fatigue, and poor results.
Manage Your Energy Like a Pro!
JAM
John Allen Mollenhauer is the founder the Performance Lifestyle community where every day achievers learn to manage their energy like pro’s, to achieve their goals in life, business and sport in healthier more successful ways. As a former athlete, and worn down workaholic turned Healthy High Achiever, John Allen Mollenhauer (aka “JAM”) helps you optimize your lifestyle the way athletes do for better results, even if you are not into sports or a fitness enthusiast. He is the creator of Performance Lifestyle Training and Group Coaching. Unleash Your Full Potential, to Perform, Look and Feel Better and Achieve Your Goals!
