Adding a morning strength training routine to my daily schedule has been one of the best things I have done over the last five months of my journey from fat to fit. It’s also been one of the most challenging. Because of my travel and work schedule I was already getting up early in the morning, typically somewhere between 5:00 am and 6:00 am. I would use this morning time to catch up on personal email, blogs, etc. So when I decided that it was important to my future to start exercising in the morning it wasn’t that big of a deal - I’ve always been a morning person.
Until I realized that I needed that morning time to stay caught up.
So now I typically awake somewhere between 3:30 am and 4:30 am, which gives me the time to get a workout in and stay caught up on the digital side of my life. This worked well at first until I started multi-tasking. I would do a set and then while resting would go to the computer. A minute rest would stretch into two, then five. Before you know it my 45 minute workout was taking 90 minutes.
And because I was resting too much my heart rate was not staying elevated so I wasn’t getting any cardio benefits from the workout either.
So on Saturday I finally decided to do something about it. No computer during the workout. Did some additional super-sets. Got my upper-body workout down to 38 minutes, during which time my heart rate stayed elevated.
It was tough but it needed to be done.
Does your routine need to be tightened up?
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