To get the biggest benefits in your strive for strength and
conditioning, you learn to maximize your efforts with the best intentions. This
doesn’t mean you go hardcore everyday, you want to have great recovery as well,
maximum effort doesn’t mean going the hardest or the fastest, it means putting
in the effort to where you're efficient and consistent with your exercise and your
recovery. Doesn’t matter if you’re in the gym, at home, at a park or on the road,
building effort with great intention become your greatest asset.
Now a lot of trainers don’t always start out with giving
their “pupil” a foundation and just throw them to the wolves and hope they make
it out alive meaning they just have go all out all the time and believe it or
not that can lead to injury, complications to your organs, brain trauma and too
much too soon. The number one rule for starting out no matter what you want to
do is
build a foundation. This helps find where you’re at and where you want to
keep going. I understand what it’s like to jump in and just hammer it out and
expect results in two days or less, that’s the arrogant thinking, the key is patience.
Set goals to improving, this is called Progression, it’s like Math, you don’t jump
to calculus on the first day, you learn arithmetic, than multiplication,
than division and so on and so forth.
A great way to understand your goals to maximize your
workouts is to learn to
harness the power within yourself. From the mind to
your organs to the outer body, using your power source from within will tell
you to stay strong or keep off. Whether it’s Deep Breathing or learning to
control your adrenalin, inner power is much stronger than your outer
appearance.
Cardio is an overrated form of conditioning that not too
many people quite keep up the aspects of what they really know. If you’re
running on a treadmill for 45 minutes, you’re working your body but at the same
time, you’re diminishing your real lung power. Not saying cardio is bad but in
my opinion, if you’re training hard and
you’re out of breath after a couple minutes hell even a few seconds, chances are you’re building much stronger
lungs than you would running for quite a bit. Anaerobic exercise makes you far
stronger in the shortest amount of time than aerobic exercise because the
difference is one gets you out of breath and the other keeps your breath going.
Both are good but rarely anyone uses both when mostly they use one or the
other. Using both in different workouts makes you a machine.
To maximize your workouts, you work as many muscles as
possible at one particular time. Basic principles train the muscles at their
peak levels and the basic exercises are Sprinting, Presses, Pulls, Squats and
Grip all of which give you the foundation to build levels of strength and
conditioning you never imagined having and all work multiple muscle groups.
Isolated exercises don’t have the luxury of making you very strong, you’ll only
get strong in one particular area and neglect everything else. It’s like a kick
ass looking salad, you don’t just put lettuce here, tomatoes there no you put
croutons, beets, lettuce tomatoes, carrots, nuts and dressing so it’s all mixed
and matched TOGETHER!!!
Don’t just throw all your eggs in one basket meaning in this
case don’t just put all your effort into one workout and you’re don’t for the
day,
spread your exercises around so your energy levels are always there and
when you have that big workout, do it with a vengeance and after, rest and cool
off. Again your day is not done yet and there are people out there who don’t
have that amount of time to do one big workout, if they can go for it but for
those who have very little time, could spread out their exercises throughout
the day so they can have that sense of accomplishment. Make the effort to
exercise as best as you can no matter where you are.
To get great benefit, you need tools to help you along the
way. If you got
weights, do them when you have the time, stuck at a red light
in your car, do
isometrics by pushing and pulling on the steering wheel, got a
ton of room to train, move around like a
wild animal, only have a short amount
of space, do
push-ups and/or
squats. These are all things you can do to help you
keep in mind that exercise is key to keeping a long and healthy life and you
make the effort to do something. There is 24hrs in a day, use the free time you
have whether it’s a couple minutes or whatever and do something, you don’t have
to do much to get a ton of benefit.
