Have you ever wondered why your trainer is making you do something, or why exercising has to be so hard? Well if you are training without a clear purpose in mind...then maybe re-evaluating the whole thing will help clear up the confusion. I just completed a NASM Live workshop in New York City for Sports Performance Training. It was awesome. I highly recommend this course to anyone who is interested in improving their sports performance or even just general workouts. What's great about sports training is that it is designed with specific goals in mind that have a direct result on the type of exercises that will be performed. Program design is important for everyone, athletes and non-athletes, because the result is the most important part of any training program. Let's face it, the probability of someone continuing to train or even increasing the intensity of their training depends directly on whether or not they get a good result. If there's no result, there's no need to train. To an athlete the result is something like jumping higher, running faster, moving quicker. To your average person the result may be more like dropping a dress size, reducing body fat, feeling better. Either way, we need to have clear goals and clearly defined pathways to get there. What I'm interested in, is how we can to the least amount of "effort" to get the best "result". Let's work smarter. Hard work has it's place, but what most people's fitness routine is missing is a well thought out plan. If I can get just one person to train more thoughtfully rather than more often or "harder" then I will feel accomplished! My first guinea pig as always is myself, and I'll be updating you on my training progress as we go along.