Exercise Anywhere SPARTAN WAY 009
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
What's the most common excuse for not exercising? I don't have the time! Well, we're about to show you that you DO have time. Not only do you have time, but there are more options than you know to exercise with just your bodyweight or in your backyard. Opportunity is knocking, as always!
LESSONS:
You can train in your backyard, in your house or just take a simple 10 minute walk. You don't need to travel to the gym.
Pick 1 exercise a day. 1 exercise is 100% more than zero.
You can do 1 exercise for 1 set in the morning and again at night, now you're 200% ahead of doing nothing.
Action always beats inaction!
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host & Show Notes: Zach Even - Esh
© 2018 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You could exercise anywhere. |
| 0:02.0 | One, two, three, four. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, what's up? |
| 0:11.0 | Zach Everness here, Spartan Way Podcast coming to you from beautiful Pittsfield, Vermont. |
| 0:16.4 | And today what I want to talk to you about is you could exercise anywhere. |
| 0:20.8 | We don't need the gym membership. You don't even have to leave your house. And in today's hectic world of hustle and bustle, the common excuse is I don't have the time. But as you could see I was just doing some picnic table military presses and I |
| 0:36.7 | started doing this kind of stuff when I stopped joining a gym. I was teaching full-time, coaching wrestling, going to graduate school, and the |
| 0:47.2 | gym that I was training at was just out of the way. So I said that's it. I got to figure |
| 0:51.7 | out a way to train at home to eliminate the excuses. |
| 0:55.0 | So you could exercise anywhere. You've got calisthenics. We've got burpies of course if you're a Spartan and you are a Spartan we all know about burpies |
| 1:04.3 | Push-ups squats lunges planks jumping jacks you could do one of the simplest things and one of the best things not just for physical health but |
| 1:13.8 | emotional and mental health is go out and take a 10 minute walk. Dr. Stuart McGill |
| 1:19.3 | who's probably the world's leading back expert he says a 10 minute walk every day is |
| 1:25.2 | non-negotiable he says but when you walk he says walk like a boss swing those |
| 1:30.9 | arms it gets your anterior core working, your stomach, your trunk muscles, and it promotes back health. |
| 1:38.0 | And nothing feels better than just |
| 1:45.0 | do one exercise session and this is what I want you to think about if you just do one exercise at home |
| 1:47.0 | Let's say you do 10 burpees or 10 squats that's 100% more than zero. You're already ahead of the curve. So here's what I want you to do today. |
| 1:58.0 | Pick one exercise today that you could do from home or in your garage or in your apartment or in the |
| 2:04.0 | backyard. I want you to do it with somebody. So get a friend, maybe your boyfriend, |
| 2:08.8 | your husband, your son, your daughter, get people involved with you and just do one exercise push-ups |
| 2:15.2 | squats lunges do it today one exercise and that's it for this episode of the |
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