He told me today that he has no time to workout. There was something in me that wanted to fall like a rock to the floor and just as fast scream for help. You know what I am talking about. When someone tells you something that you know isn’t true and for some reason, you cannot find the right picture to draw or words to say that will highlight your point or back you up; you just stand there taking the punch after punch expecting no chance for you to respond.
When he told me this I really wanted to tell him that time is the only thing we have, we just misuse it. There are two things I feel we do with our time:
1. SPEND our time or waste our time
2. INVEST our time or wisely use our time
He earlier says to me that he wants to have enough energy to play with his kids in the yard without falling over in a gasping fit and with intense cramping of his ego. He never has time to work out and because of this felling of “not enough time,” he simply SPENDS the 15 minutes here and 5 minutes there sitting in his chair thinking about how much is on his plate for tomorrow.
Instead of INVESTING those small blocks of time in the goal of playing with his kids, he SPENDS the time taking small shallow breaths hoping he will get some more energy to finish the current task.
We have just uncovered what SPENDING time is and it’s really what we all do right?
And all we need to do now is decide what INVESTING is toward that goal of having enough energy to play with the kids and JUST DO IT!
INVESTING time for him is planning his meals a day in advance, taking that 5 minutes he had to breath and maybe do 10 squats, 10 push ups, 10 sit-ups and close his eyes and imagine he already has that energy to play with his kids.
Society has a GIANT misconception that we all workouts are 60 minutes in duration and must produce massive amounts of grunting and sweat! This is the wrong answer Private! J
There have been many studies that show 2 blocks of 15 minutes to workout to moderate intensity yields the same results as doing all 30 minutes in the same bout.
So as I stood there listening to him tell me that there were no open slots in his schedule to workout, I looked up at the clock which just showed me that he SPENT 25 minutes telling me what he couldn’t do instead of DOING IT.
Its time to get moving isn’t it!?
No more PROCRASTINATING!
Make the MOVE NOW!!
I have FAITH that you CAN do it!
In health,
Josh Chewning
Certified Personal Trainer
Cell: 727-643-8006
Email: JChewning@Live.com
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