Short Fitness Workouts

Short Fitness Workouts As a certified personal trainer in NYC, one of the most frequent excuses I hear for people not exercising is “I don’t have time”. I know, time is short and family and work commitments can leave you very little quality time for the... More

Short Fitness Workouts As a certified personal trainer in NYC, one of the most frequent excuses I hear for people not exercising is “I don’t have time”. I know, time is short and family and work commitments can leave you very little quality time for the other things you know you should be doing; like exercise! I think part of the problem is that, for years, the fitness industry has worked in one-hour time segments. Group exercise classes and typical personal training sessions all last an hour which is quite a hefty chunk out of your day. The reality is that you don’t have to train for an hour at a time to get fitness benefits. In fact forty, thirty or even twenty minutes of meaningful exercise can be beneficial. Do shorter workouts mean fewer benefits? Absolutely not. If you focus on quality rather than quantity, you may even find that shorter workouts are more productive than simply going through the motions for an hour or longer. In running terms, doing lots of easy but long e Less