Consistency Over Time

Okay, things are about to get busy. Summer's over, kids are back in school, sports are in full swing (haha), schedules are back to normal (i.e. full), and in the middle of it all we still have to find time to take care of our bodies. I'm saying this now because when things get busy and the schudule gets hetic it's easy to lose sight of your own physical goals and to start filling what use to be "your" workout time with other "more important" obligations. Bad idea!
Because many of us feel guilty about not training enough we feel like we have to crush ourselves every time we workout because we don't know when we might get back to it. This is the weekend warrior mentality. This takes big chunks of time on random occasions. The problem is this approach brings more injuries than results. This person always wonders why they can't seem to get past a certain plateau. The reason is because there is no consistency over time.
Consistency over time is absolutly the only way to truly make changes to your body, and everyone knows it! They just don't want to do it. I guess because it's not as entertaining to follow a plan day in and day out no matter what that WILL cause your body to change. Think about it - I often see people get all fired up, say they are willing to workout for an hour 5 days a week, and then 6 weeks later they are either jumping to a new routein, bored, or hurt.....but either way they are basically done. On the other hand, if you give me a person who will commit, and I mean commit to 3 days a week where all they do is 12 min of swings and 8 minutes of get ups (20 min total a day, 60 min a week) i can guarantee that at the end of the year they will be a completly different person. See the magic is in the simplicity. Everyone wants to make their exercise programs so complex that they miss out the natural metamorphasis that occurs when your body gets regular, healthy movement for a long period of time. This slow and steady approach allows time for your body to work, adapt, grow and evolve all of which must happen for real change to occur.
So as you find yourself getting tight for time remember that it really doesn't take that much to cause real changes in your body, just a committment to getting a small amount of work done a few times a week for an extended period of time, NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!! Don't put too much on your plate, just pick something "do-able" and STICK TO IT!!!!! You WILL change!!!!

-Cabell