How will you spend your time?

Do a quick comparison: Four to five hours a week training versus 168 hours total.  You train or should train about four to five hours a week if you want to see effective fat loss results.  However the ratio of training versus everything else in terms of time is skewed drastically in the opposite direction.  And chances are your body has other limitations that can either be helped or hindered by training.  There is a great chance that these limitations occurred in every day activities so your training should reflect correcting exercises  as well as highly effective fat loss training.  This is the evolution of training and workouts that many don’t know.

Corrective stretching, exercises, movements, and mobility exercises are a few things that your program must include.  These vital tools to your training can spell the difference between you having aches and pains and you having the ability to move and exercise pain free.  We spend so much time doing other things than exercise and often we have bad posture, sit excessively, use one hand/arm much more than the other, have minimal range of motion (we don’t move enough, only whats easy), on top of many other challenges our body has just from moving incorrectly or habitually.

One thing we definitely don’t want to do but often don’t think about is to increase the dysfunction we already have in our body, rather we want to reverse it.  However our most important goal is looking better and losing fat.  A quality program is going to have both components.

Now the first part may be a little difficult to design into your program.  Warm up is a fantastic place to start adding things that are going to help prevent further injury, aches and pains.  You will need an assessment by a professional to discover these limitations and weak points that need work within your body.  Save the main part of the workout for fat loss intense exercises.  However be sure to incorporate balance in your exercise selection and not to aggravate any imbalances you have in your body.  Balance would be incorporating hip and quad dominant exercises, push and pull exercises, as well as multiple movement planes, such as rotation, overhead, and forward back movements. 

While the main focus of your program is your goal you are trying to reach (lose fat, gain muscle, etc), you don’t want to have a higher cost on your body to achieve these results (injury, loss of range of motion, imbalance of joints and muscles, etc).  While you can achieve the results of your goal, your body may not be in the healthiest state it could be, and you may not be able to move as well as you could if you had the well-rounded approach to your to workout.