Short and Powerful Training for Busy People (GP)

10/07/2015

Guest Post by Mathews McGarry

The pace of modern living often leaves little time for physical exercise.
In addition to being necessary to counterweight hours spent in an office or in front of TV, many people are struggling to find a balance between there social life and the time spent in the gym. This guide will try to explain how anyone can spare not more than 30 minutes for workout anytime, anywhere. 


Plan your Workouts
If you live through a busy day and wait for a gap to open to let you get some exercise, well bad news. It never does. On the other hand, if you know what awaits you on the following days, and know how busy you will be, you must also see where the time gaps are. Make your workout plan based on these gaps and stick to it like with your client meetings. Also, don’t forget to leave time for recovery between the workouts.


Respect your Time
Unless you take your free time seriously, you will get distracted easier than you think. The time management is an important skill, and unless you give it respect, something else will take its place. The workout time stays workout time. Period.

Short and Effective Workouts
What you are looking to hit here are effective and proven whole body resistance exercises, like deadlift and its variations, squats and variations, bench press with weighted pushups/pull-ups/dips, military press, cleans, clean and presses, snatches and jerks. As you will probably have two or three of these workouts a week, you want every of them counting. Staying focused on the weight you are lifting instead on business helps a lot.

Key to Success
Here you want to combine as many opposable movements as you can, like pull-ups and squats, or doing a full three sets of deadlifts after weighted chins and pushups. The idea is to maximize supersets, and make you rest less and train more as these exercise follow each other naturally. The extra volume of such workout is sure to get you packed with muscles, provided that you rest and eat properly.
To maximize your gain, do every movement you would normally do with just your bodyweight, like chins, jumps and sprints, in a weighted fashion. Remember, what you ask is a power-packed workout regime for busy people.


Two Big ones per Workout
However, the key is not to get yourself overworked, but to get the most of it. You will get the best result by doing not more than two big exercise per a training day - limiting their number and focusing on having a great workout. No living person can do 4 or 5 demanding exercises with a great workout. It simply isn’t possible. Our human physique doesn’t allow it. This is not a multitasking training instruction.

Importance of Looking Ahead
If your working schedule puts up the next workout session in two days from here, you need to reduce the volume of assistance exercises. Doing top many of those will get your assistance muscles sore and compromise the next workout’s big exercises. However, if your next workout is 5 days away, give them hell.


On the Road
If the nature of your business gets you travelling for longer periods of time, like two weeks so more, it pays off to find a good gym close to where you are staying. Between the meetings and the filed work, you will surely find time to squeeze two quality workouts a week while you are there. In this way you won’t have to worry about breaking your training cycle, and visits to the gym will come as a welcoming refresh after the toils of the day.
However, remember to pack some quality workout supplementation like Legion recharge, protein-rich food like lean chicken, beef or eggs and carbs like rice or oatmeal.
Your workout should become as important as your work. There is no mental not physical health without exercising, and strength workout helps us blow that extra bit of steam.

If training doesn’t define you as a person, it should definitely become at least a part of you.

Author

MfaceMathews McGarry is passionate about many forms of strength training, and spent years lifting, dragging and flipping all manner of heavy objects. After graduating on the Faculty of Health Sciences, he started writing about his experiences, and sharing advices for better life at highstylife.com and other health blogs. Follow him on Twitter.

2 comments in this post

  1. Brilliant post! Written with authority and loads of great, easy to follow information. Will RT this :)

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  2. Thank you for that Nic! :) x

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