When do YOU Workout?
workout, exercise, kids, religion, politics
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Eventually this question is asked of me from just about everyone I meet. When people find out that my career is that I help people lose weight by figuring out how exercise fits into their lives…”yeah, I need to get back in the gym” is the usual response. Andrea and I had a some friends over for dinner Saturday night and we covered just about every topic including the one’s “your not supposed to discuss”.
Religion.
Politics.
Kids.
Work.
Then out of the blue it came out…”When do YOU workout, Dave”?
I don’t know why but that question bother me in the past. Again, I could speculate as to why it did but your guess is as good as mine.
I answered him openly and honestly while in my mind’s eye - I was thinking…who cares when I workout!
But when I explained that my workouts came in many forms like playing soccer and other backyard games with my boys, speed mowing the lawn, backyard workouts, workouts when my personal training clients cancel, and early morning workouts he was left only with more questions like, “yeah but when”?
He was even more astonished to know that I have not done a structured workout that has taken more than 20 minutes in about 8 months. Actually I do my 10 Minute Whole Body Workouts most of the time. They are time efficient, highly effective and they keep me ultra consistent.
Why am I telling you this?
Because I have now realized that the question of when I workout, as a fitness expert, is important. If I can’t give people an answer that illustrates everything I coach people on every day than I have no credibility.
It dawned on my thick skull that people need to hear how I fit my workouts in when I am dealing with a personal training business that has an active wait list, a fitness member site that is exploding, and a new venture of creating exericise programming and opportunity for kids with HFA (Hi... read entire entry
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on 9/30/2008
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