216: 6 Ways To Get More Out of Your Workout
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Elizabeth Benton
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🗓️ 9 August 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Whether you're working out regularly or you haven't yet incorporated it into your lifestyle, today we're going to tackle 6 simple ways to get more out of your workout! No matter what we spend our time & energy doing, we want to make sure we're getting as much from it as possible!
While exercise isn't the be-all-end-all of fat burning and physique improvement, it does have the power to accelerate our progress, improve mood and help us get healthy - let's just make sure we're being as efficient as possible.
It doesn't matter if you have a gym membership or not, it doesn't matter if you love working out or you don't - these 6 ways to get more out of your workout will help you get to the next level!
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6 Ways To Get More Out of Your Workout
Before we dive into those 6 strategies that will allow you to get more out of your workout, a few caveats for those who are resistant to change or for those who haven't yet incorporated fitness into their routine.
It's important to remember that fitness is not the important element of fat loss or physique improvement. In today's episode I'll talk about how we the primary drivers of fat loss include:
- Your attitude & perspective
- What and how much you eat
- Stress & sleep
The important thing to keep in mind is that exercise shouldn't be a punishment or something we dread. Just like the key to long term success with nutrition is finding foods you love that love you back, it's critical that you experiment with different activities to find what you love, enjoy & look forward to.
Over the long term, we won't consistently do that which we don't enjoy.
Onto those 6 strategies that will help you get more out of your workout - I go into a whole lot detail on the "how" in today's episode so make sure to listen to the full show!
- Get consistent (this episode tells you how)
- Add a leisure walk after your workout (the "why" here is very science-based)
- Decrease the duration & increase the intensity
- Go heavier
- Switch the stimulus
- Incorporate micro movement
I told you guys I'd share what equipment I have at home. You absolutely don't need any of this, but I find I can do just about any workout I want and get a whole-body workout with these few things.
If you want to incorporate a little bit of movement without any equipment, here's one of my fave workouts to do without any equipment:
Complete 5 rounds for time of the following:
- 20 body weight squats
- 15 sit-ups
- 10 burpees
- 5 push-ups
If you have a jumprope, one of my faves is to accumulate 1000 jumps as fast as possible. You can start by doing sets of 50, resting when needed. If 1000 seems daunting, do what doesn't seem daunting. You could start by accumulating just 100 jumps. Start where you need to, work up your skill with each workout.
If you have some equipment at home, try this short one.
Set a timer for 15 minutes and do as many rounds as possible of the following before time expires:
- 15 kettlebell swings
- 15 goblet squats
- 10 burpees
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:06.6 | Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.7 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.2 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.4 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | If you have made it this far, you know we are talking about fitness today, about working out. |
| 0:34.3 | And maybe you thought about not listening because you're not quite there yet, you're not at a point |
| 0:39.7 | where you're incorporating movement or fitness into your weekly routine, or maybe you are and |
| 0:46.0 | you're totally in a rhythm and you get kind of protective of it, you don't want to change anything. |
| 0:51.3 | I want to say a couple of things to people who are feeling a little bit apprehensive about this |
| 0:56.3 | topic for these reasons or really for any reasons. |
| 0:59.9 | And actually I think these might be helpful for for everybody, even if you saw this this |
| 1:05.0 | title and thought, oh my gosh I can't wait to listen. The first thing is that fitness should be |
| 1:12.1 | fun and if it's not fun for you, I want you to change it so that it is fun for you. That is |
| 1:19.6 | possible just like eating foods you love that love you back is possible. At any stage of your journey, |
| 1:27.9 | whether you're close to your goal or nowhere near it, right, it shouldn't be a chore or a punishment |
| 1:33.8 | or something that you do to make up for eating. Fitness, movement, exercise, whatever, you should |
| 1:40.8 | enjoy it, you should feel amazing when you are done. Now that doesn't mean that you're always |
| 1:46.5 | like hurrah about getting up off the couch to get in a workout, but it should be a good part |
| 1:52.4 | of your day, not the part of your day that you dread and try to talk yourself out of. And that |
| 1:59.0 | is absolutely, absolutely possible. I talk, I feel like on almost every episode about how from a food |
| 2:05.7 | standpoint, you want to eat foods you love that love you back, not just choke down quote unquote |
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