Hey guys labor day is coming up and if your some one that does great when you have to work towards a date. Setting some short term goals may help you. Try make a couple these habits, your goals!

I just wanted to share some random idea to that may help you lean out, add muscle and get really strong.

1. Add 2-3 finisher to your workouts . Don’t abandon your strength training for cardio add 5 minute finisher. The ones I love are count downs, there fun , quick and effective at burning fat. Just pick a lower body and upper exercise. Than start at a certain rep range and work down .

Example- Jump squats and pushup 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

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2. Any time meals and post workout meal. This by far the simplest way to boost fat loss. Just eat protein , veggies, fruit with each meal. Than the meals that occur after your hard session, add your favorite carbs to it. More meal idea check out this free resource.

3. Add fun cardio on off days. Do low intensity cardio on your off days to recover better and boost a little more fat loss. But, do ones that don’t beat the body up and that you enjoy. I like walking my dog, boxing, sled dragging or some pick up games.

4. Nothing is too small- There will be days where you don’t want to do the work. You won’t want to lift, or workout or eat healthy. On those days it is huge win to just do something. Don’t get caught in the all or nothing dogma. Drink a gallon of water while not eating the best, is better than not eating the best. A 5 minute workouts is better than nothing.

Try this for the next 30 days always do something. No missing

1. Pick one thing positive to do with your nutrition , it can be big or small.
2. Move in some way it can be an hour session at the gym or 5 minutes doing bodyweight squats or push ups, just get it in.

I did a leg day and finished with some tough sprints on the sled after , I fell on the ground and just took a moment, to gather myself.

Today was completely different did 5 minutes of stretching and mobility and finished with tempo runs on the sled . Which just mean your sprinting 70% effort with long rest.

I felt vey different today. I had a lot more energetic afterwards and felt like I could do a lot more. Which is a great indicator a recovery workout gone well.

Every workout doesn’t have be tough and brutal to be effective. It doesn’t have to be tough at all. (I just like to train like that way, people get results from zumba and watching what they eat)

If your like me, it ok to push yourself but every workout doesn’t need too be intense.

Actually it shouldn’t be that is counter productive for most of things we are tying accomplish like

Building Muscle

Losing belly fat

Get strong

Bering energetic throughout the day.

If we don’t recover we don’t get results. Recovery is just as important as training hard. Sometimes we forget that.

Here is a couple guidelines, I put together for you to help you recover aka get better results.

• Try not to do 2-3 hard workouts in row.
• Instead of a complete rest days do something active on your off days play with kids, go for walks etc, this works better than doing nothing and sitting on our bums.
• Sleep 7-8 hours sleep and try get as much of that as possible before 12am.
• Use foam roll or lacrosee ball to roll out tight muscle .
• Eat a protein and fruit or veggie with each meal

Hope that helps

If your looking for some help with your nutrition, check out this free resource I put together with precision nutrition. Click the picture.