I know, that takes work and yes I know you would have to eat better and yes you would have to sacrifice some of the pleasures of life but folks the pay back is well worth it.

Not being able to do what you love to physically do with those you love to do it with any time you want to do it is simply not the way life was meant to be.

The problem is that America makes fitness and working out way to complicated and boring.  We also create these workout misconceptions and myths that have no supporting results or real world evidence.

Let me share with you 10 things to change in your present exercise program to build a better you starting today.

1. Replace your focus on weight loss with a focus on fat loss.  Get rid of the scale and take a picture now and every 2-3 weeks until you like what you see
2. Eliminate slow long duration cardio and replace it with 20 minute interval training workouts that crank up your heart rate.  Feel free to use any type of cardio equipment you wish
3. Exercise for short periods of 30 minutes 5 days per week rather than 90 minutes 3 times a week.  Every time you spike you work load you create another 12 to 16 hours of additional calorie afterburn by raising your metabolism.
4. Replace traditional strength training with 20 minutes of high intensity interval strength training where you keep recovery low and work volume 8-12 reps.
5. Eliminate machine based strength training with bands, bells or body weight and train multiple muscles at one time
6. Stop doing sit ups and crunches and exchange with planks isometrics and reactive band training.  This alone will eliminate a majority of low back pain.
7. Eliminate any exercises that require you to sit or lie down and exchange it with an exercise that does the same thing while you are in standing up.
8. Make sure you get your heart rate with a dynamic warm-up that breaks a sweat.    It will make your total workout better automatically.
9. Add a lunge or squat to all upper body push, pull or press exercises. More muscle being recruited is always a good thing.
10. Crank up your workouts by adding in interval workout music.  It has been shown that music increases overall    workout intensity by 20% which means 20% more calorie burning.

Now take action and start adding in 1 or 2 of these changes every week and I promise your fitness level will sky rocket up.

Make sure you shoot me a comment and let me know what you have done different that has made a big difference in your fitness level or enjoyment.

Let’s get FIT Together

Dave Schmitz