Why you should be fit!

Why Should I Be Fit Corey?

Note* This article is a dedication to the comparison of you v.s. your best self. Not all of what is mentioned is to be expected but is there to get you thinking of how you may want to look at your life and lifestyle choices.

• You should be fit to make your quality of life better.
• If you don’t know you don’t know. What does it look like when you are the fittest you can be?
• If you need some motivation read my “A Human Responsibility” blog post.
• Have you seen that side of the fence? If you have not, keep reading. Even if you are considered to be fit, are you ticking all the boxes? 
• Have you seen what that looks like?

Let’s get into it. Let’s compare an average person, someone who does a moderate amount of exercise and eats moderately well to that of someone at peak performance.

What does their day look like? How do they perform? What goes through their mind? Could you get some of that sauce? Where should you focus your energy to adopt this?

Let’s Assume An Average Person’s Goes Like This:

• Full-time job
• 20-60 minutes travel to work
• 6 hours sleep as they have busy lives or are addicted to TV shows/games
• Wake up to an alarm
• Hot comfortable shower in the morning
• Coffee straight away
• Eats a carb-rich breakfast “for energy” throughout the day
• Eats a big lunch
• Snacks throughout the day
• Either sit at an office all day or works like a dog on the tools
• Goes to the gym after work and trains what they feel like for 40 minutes 3 times a week
• A small warm-up stretch before a workout
• On their phone organising life at the gym
• Goes to yoga once a week or a sports commitment (maybe twice)
• Eats a big dinner
• Alcohol maybe once or twice a week with dinner
• Has something tasty and carb-rich before bed
• No bed routine schedule
• A weekend spent eating with the family and occasionally social drinks
• Maybe go for a walk, play a sport or go to the gym
• Social media scrolling throughout the day

Repeat This Schedule For 10 Years What Do You Get?

• Less than a plain Jane look
• Sloppy rig
• Underperforming brain
• Not too confident with themselves
• Some health issues
• Severe boredom
• loss of purpose
• Maybe some anxiety and depression
• A sense of a need for fulfilment
• A need to go on vacations and getaway all the time

Sorry to say but this schedule kind of sucks. You have no excuse to change that shit up unless you are so fulfilled from what you’re doing outside your schedule, or your work is that meaningful to you.

Popular Excuses:

• It’s hard with children
• I am a single parent
• I’m old
• I work 10 + hour days
• I work so hard
• My work is so demanding
• I do shift work
• I’m allergic to everything
• I have long-lasting injuries
• I’m too fat to start

I’m not going to lie; these excuses are tough to overcome. If you use any of the excuses you have it rough and I agree with you. However, with my limited knowledge, I’m sure the majority
of people have one of these excuses. Are you doing enough for you?

 

Let’s Have A Look At Someone Who Optimizes At a Peak Performance Schedule:

• Full-time job
• Intermittent fast
• No carbs until lunch and utilise quality dietary fats
• Write or read in the morning or night
• Eat and supplement for performance
• Perfected the required amount of sleep needed and stuck to it
• Long-lasting energy all-day
• Crush work, get more done in a smaller amount of time than other workers with superior quality
• They do some sort of training first thing in the morning
• Cold showers early or when they get home
• Do some research on how to improve themselves or their schedule
• Look at finances
• Spend high-quality time with family
• Specific stretching routines
• Sometimes train again during the day or after work
• Only on social media small amounts of the day where required
• Meal prep a couple of times a week
• Cook fresh dinners and their ingredients are of quality

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a little some of that?

If you are fit, do you have endless energy all day? Are you healing properly? Are you ever sluggish? Do you feel

like you should be doing a little more with your time?

You may also be thinking how the hell anyone fits all that into their schedule. Firstly they don’t and what they don’t fit in they don’t worry about. If something falls off or does not go to plan it's onto the next thing. 

You can’t expect to nail every day but you sure as hell can try. 

Will power is energy used as a muscle, you run out of juice after making so many decisions. Organise when you need to use your will
power and where you need to save it.

Performance looks like:

• Firstly they have plans, they have planned their days and weeks to work for them
• Fit in reading, audiobooks and podcasts that sort out their goals
• Put time to figure out and stick to goals.
• Constant progress
• Fit healthy and attractive looking bodies
• Work more efficiently during the day
• Highly confident, especially when needed
• Active rest days are scheduled
• They make time for friends and have the energy to help and support them
• Holidays aren’t to get away but to go and help people or do something to improve their own knowledge or skills
• Focus on being happy and positive
• Well Disciplined
• High level of grit
• High level of resilience
• Good at saying no but give the best yes's

Your life will not have all of these points in them. However, if you don’t have at least a few of these points incorporated into your day, doing some life design could be good for you.

Life design is where you map your current daily schedule, weekly schedule and yearly schedule and slot your required tasks to achieve your goals.

You may only have the goal of looking good. What would your perfect day look like? Write it down. What would your perfect week look like? Write it down. 

Have you ever done or thought about this? If not do it, it only takes 10-20 minutes. Then take a photo of it on your phone to remind yourself of what you need to do.

Mapping this out will improve your discipline drastically, it’s an investment in your goals that compounds. Do not forget to put in some play, some you time, something you find that is enjoyable to you. An option could be scheduling 1 hour of T.V. shows, reading or family time.

Remember being physically fit is at the core for a high performing life. If you are unhealthy physically or mentally some parts of your life may suffer. Being physically fit improves mental fitness. This can be done by routine, scheduling and discipline which comes with mapping out your days, weeks and goals.

There is no excuse to not be fitter in a week than you are today. It all starts with a thought and some enthusiasm.

If you need help with lifestyle design feel free to contact me.

I will post an article soon on how to lifestyle design.

Big Love

Corey