Goals and fitness

We all should have goals that we set for ourselves. I have goals for my home inspection company just like I have goals for my health and fitness. The goals can take many different shapes (by shapes I do not mean flat or fat stomach).

One of my goals regarding health and fitness is to gain a stripe on my Brazilian jiu jiutu belt. I realize that for that to happen I will have needed to spend some time at the martial art school weekly and rolling with the other students. This goal of earning another strip on my belt is a way to measure my fitness level. I know that I can not easily earn a stripe by being lazy or fat. Attaining this also helps to achieve the goal of exercising a number of times each week.

Some of my workouts are home workouts which I find very time efficient and inexpensive since I know how to train the entire body with little more than body weight exercises for BJJ Brazilian jiu jitsu.

As I progress in rank and get fit I will rake in the benefits.

Home Fitness Program

Working on putting to paper/web page the workouts that I have been doing to stay in shape. They are the most time efficient workouts I have ever done.

I believe that the workouts would be ideal for professionals, business owners or anyone that little time to waste and wants to gets results quickly.

Once completed the home workout will be on this site Home fitness 


People are beginning to join the email list for when the Home workout program becomes available.

Pull Ups and then tabata

Endomondo Doing weight training Workout: "was out doing weight training - in 8m:00s using Endomondo."

A few days ago added regular pull ups to do, however I am doing them with extra weight being held by my feet/ankles.

Today I did 3 sets of pull ups with 30 lbs added and then did the lean back pull done tabata protocol

nice quick workout at home

Workout at home

Circuit Training

Circuit training is great way to get into shape. With a good circuit routine a person can exercise their entire body in a short amount of time. Not only will the muscles get a workout but the cardio system will also be trained.

I used a circuit to prepare for brazilian jiu-jitsu tournaments. The one I used was tough and definitly was for the well trained adn conditioned. I am now doing a lighter version of the exercise circuit.

If you do not do any circuit training currently I recommend that you ad it.

I am planning on recording the circuit and offering it pro bono to everyone. So subsribe to this blog to be notified when it is ging given away.


Ever do circuit training?

Variety is Key

One key factor in fitness success is you ability to exercise consistently. This is not to say that you should always do the same exercise all the time. But that you should exercise consistently and that the exercise you do can vary. Run one day, lift the next. Circuit training on Monday and then Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) the Wednesday. The variety will greatly help reduce the odds of your getting bored and quit exercising.

Heart rate monitors

Looking for an edge on your new years resulution to lose some weight and get in to better shape? Increase your health. Heart rate monitors are a very useful tool to help ensure your workouts are productive and at the proper level of effort.

They come in a large assortment of size shapes and features, even GPS. Check them out

heart rate monitors

Change of routine

The other day I went for a run. First time in quite a while. The feeling I had the next day reminded me of one of the important things to do when improving your condition. That thing is to change your routine. The change can be accomplished in a number of ways. Speed, amount of weight, number of sets, number of repititions, etc.

When thinking of resolution goals for the coming year alswo think of how you will do things differently. This will increase your chances of reachig your goals.

Home fitness Goals

It is important to keep track of your fitness goals. Do not make the goals generic such as "lose weight". The goals need to be specific and measurable. I better example of a goal would be this: "lose 10 pounds by ____,___. or "do the home fitness circuit three times per week"

With goals written down is that way the goals are measurable and can be accurately measured.

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