How to Fit in Strength Training when Your Life is Full
/How do you fit in weight training when this season of your life is so full that finding 45 min to an hour to get to the gym is not possible?
The Struggle to Find Fitness Time is Some Seasons is Real
At a workshop recently in a company, one of the employees said she walks her dog when she gets home and then has to choose between making dinner and going to the gym.
Just last night a client said “I can’t get to the gym, but I’m not sure if working out at home is a good option, either.”
They aren’t alone and neither are you.
First, make sure that your struggle is truly a time issue and not an “I-don’t-enjoy-this issue.”
If you try to solve the wrong challenge to sticking with fitness, it will never get easy.
Knowing Why You Want to Strength Train is Your Next Step
Whether you want to carry your groceries when you are 80, or go hiking, play tennis, or play with your not-here-yet grandkids, knowing your WHY will motivate you to find the HOW.
How Do Muscles Get Stronger?
Once you know your Why, then you need to understand the underlying principle to getting stronger.
What causes your muscle to grow and get stronger? Fatigue. The kind of “oh, that’s really burning” feeling, which causes microscopic damage. Which is 100% necessary.
Then when you eat well and sleep well, the muscle tissue heals back stronger.
So. unlike collecting step activity during the day, you don’t get real strength growth through doing a single squat once an hour. Any movement is good and helps maintain the strength you have. However, to build muscle, the exercises needs to be grouped together enough to fatigue the muscle.
You need to fatigue your muscles. It doesn’t have to look like this (unless you want). :-)
But that doesn’t mean it needs to be long sessions at the gym.
It can be 20 minutes 2 days/week at home.
You can do HITT (high intensity training) if you want, but you don’t have to.
Or you can build strength training into your day.
Which is what I share in Part Two next week.
For now, follow me on Instagram (thevireolife) and TikTok (sheritraxler). Because every day I’m sharing an exercise you can easily build into your day.
