While I firmly believe that variety is one of the keys to success in fitness, I also firmly believe that it is key to have some basic plans as go-tos. This is not unlike meal planning for a family. We all have staples like flour and salt and sugar and pantry basics like pasta and rice. Most of us have at least one emergency meal ready to pull out at a moment’s notice—spaghetti night often happens this way at my house. (Yes, there is also the call-the-pizza-man method, which definitely has a place, but should not be relied on as a major source of nutrition.)
Our fitness staples are our basic cardio, weight, and flexibility exercises that we can do pretty much no matter what. They might be walking, body weight squats, and forward bends, for example. The pantry basics are what we get from those staples: a 30-minute interval run, twenty minutes of squats and pushups, a few sun salutations and five minutes of meditation. Then we can spice things up with our trips to the fitness grocery store or farmer’s market—we do a little Zumba one day, hit the machines at the gym, do a heavy weight workout, or take a different Pilates class. We have the basics so we don’t starve; we have the other stuff so we can enjoy eating.
No surprise: I vote for both.
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