This morning I was hitting my emails and found my daily inspiration from Zach Even-Esh, the Underground Strength Coach. He was talking about a topic that hits hard both as a personal trainer and as someone who wants/needs to stay in shape myself - too little time to work out.
He made an important distinction: he spoke of having little time, as opposed to NO time and that makes all the difference in the world.
"I don't have an hour to devote to working out; I'm just too busy" OK, how about 30 minutes? How about 10 minutes? How about 5 minutes? C'mon...you've got 5 minutes every now and then throughout your day.
What can you do in 5 minutes? Well, let's see...a whole LOT of pushups or body-weight squats or tricep dips or a combination of those three. How about some ab/core work? 5 minutes can be a long time if you're doing good solid ab/core exercises.
Zach used a great term - chunking - taking small chunks of time and doing one or more movements. Over the course of a day you'll probably get in more than a half hour and you'll beat the cycle of having those "too busy to train" days.
Give it a shot and be sure to head over to Zach's website
While you're there, sign up for his underground strength ejournal. Time spent with Zach is always time well-spent
