It can seem a little bit like you’re chasing a unicorn while trying to establish a fitness regimen that YOU Enjoy. Are they really there? Can you really create a program that suits your body, goals, schedule, preferences, and financial situation? Finding that specific fitness unicorn is one of the goals of some of the work we perform at the Fed & Fit Project, which is aiming for a late summer re-launch. It is known as the Perfect Fitness Fit (the IFF). It’s a specially designed program that allows you to work up a sweat without being exhausted.
After some practice, you’ll feel REFRESHED (instead of exhausted) and eager for the next session after your IFF (vs. dreading it).
Strength, speed, agility, and power training should all be listed across the top of a piece of paper.
Consider all the activities that fit under each of these training categories. Make a list of activities for each type of training in writing. Here are a few types of workouts as examples:
Strength, Speed, and Endurance in CrossFit
Kickboxing: Quickness and Stamina
Yoga for athletes: endurance, strength, and mobility
Yoga for recovery: Mobility
Spinning: Quickness and Stamina
Dance: quickness, stamina, and mobility
Barre: Moderate Endurance, Strength
Locate two highlighters or pens of various colors. Use one color to circle the fitness activities that sound the most enjoyable, and another color to circle the most useful ones (think: expense, location, scheduling). Circle a pursuit twice, using both colors, if it is both useful and enjoyable.
Write down any fitness goals that span two or more training styles and those you circled twice using both colors on a different piece of paper. Here is a nice place to stop if you can create a comprehensive fitness regimen with these activities. You are prepared to continue to Step 4. The next stage is to carry out this new strategy. Get your calendar out and start planning these
