Time Management Skills
Think about it, when was the last time you were sick or injured? How many sick days have you had, how much of an impedance is having a sprained ankle, or a cut finger? Most people take their health for granted until it is taken away from them. How is it that we can give 40+hours a week to work and commuting and then another God knows how many hours to trying to recover from those 40? But we don’t take any time for ourselves? For our health, for the very thing that sustains us?
Take out a piece of paper…hell, open up your training diary/log. Don’t have one of those? Get it together. Seriously! We are going back to school here folks, but this is what I have my clients do to wake them up a little bit. Write the number 168 in big bold numbers at the top of the page. Know what that is? It’s the number of hours in a week. Now let’s start allocating time. You need 8 hours of sleep a day, that’s 56 hours a week. Now you have 112 hours left. I know some of you are already being defensive and thinking that somehow you don’t need, or ever get 8 hours of sleep. Once again, pull your head out of the sand, and allocate this much time for recovery, Period! Next, let us examine this thing called work. Yeah, so we all work overtime and have to commute, and life is just miserable….mostly because you are not managing your time! Then look at your family time. Your social time. Your shopping and errand running time. Now look at your time. At this point most of you are already in the red and don’t have any other left over time, right?
Now let’s take a minute to prioritize some stuff. This is the epiphany moment of selfishness that most of us desperately need. Would you be able to go to work, take care of the family, go shopping etc… if you were sick or injured? What good is all that time, if YOU are not available and healthy to be part of it? So, with this attitude, let’s start committing some numbers to paper. Let’s take our 112 available hours, let’s put our work out time up front. We need 1.5 hours a day minimum for optimal performance health. We could get away with as little as 25 minutes a day. But that is pure maintenance, bare bone, basics…not hard, focused results oriented training that most of us need! Commit a number to your paper. How serious are you about your results? You know that hot bodied fitness model looking creature you see in the coffee shop every morning? Bet your ass, that he/she is spending at least 1.5 hours a day chiseling that body. So, let’s say you commit 1 hour a day. This takes us down to 105 hours that we have left to devote to work, family and other activities. Yeah, no shit, it’s true. And most of us bitch about 40+ hour work weeks. Even if you work 60 hours a week, you would still have 45 hours left over to screw around with.
Now imagine this, you get to see me or one of my trainers how many hours a week? one, two, three…hell five if you’re super lucky right? In my mind, that means you have at least 163 hours to screw it up! When I train someone one day a week, I am trusting that they are doing their homework. That they are eating correctly, doing their cardio in the right volume and intensity, and that the other days that they are in the weight room, they are pushing themselves as hard as I push them. Is that realistic? Think about it, because this is what most of you are asking for. All the results with none of the time invested. Check your priorities. Invest in your self first. I promise the rest will be much better when you start taking care of number one first!
Once you think you’ve got a handle on this most basic of lifestyle management, please read the “intensity” entry in this same blog column.
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