Short, Intense and Consistent.(SIC)

If you want to have a “SIC” workout, then read on.

Ironically, most people are simply out of alignment with all three of these concepts and that’s why they are not fit for success!

What do they do?

They think they need to exercise for long periods of time, as if more was better. They do “slow boring cardio”, and the same exercises as yesterday, at the same weight, for “4 sets of 10 reps”… same thing they did last week. They don’t challenge themselves and things never change, like their body.

This bores the living daylights out of most people and because they over train, they can’t sustain. They get depleted, on top of everything else in their life and naturally they don’t see the results they want.

This combination of over training, feeling depleted and poor results, ultimately means inconsistency. Now add to that a poor lifestyle that provides no support and I can tell you without question why so many people are in active.

Sound familiar?

I don’t stick with exercise programs frankly, I have a fitness oriented lifestyle or whats called a “PerformanceLifestyle” and I build in SIC work outs all the time!

What people forget is that fitness in today’s day and age is “mass bodybuilding” and obsessive for a variety of reasons I can’t get into in this post. I am a former bodybuilder and know this obsession of training for hours. Yet while still to this day I embody the desire to build my body, I know that I don’t need to train like a body builder to build a great body!

My goals are different.

Bodybuilders have building their body, like a business, as their goal. And athletes too have sport as their occupation! This is not the case for the person who’s business may be marketing, or construction or something else; who sees fitness as something they maintain in their life, not the goal itself. They want high levels of fitness, but still fitness is not the goal itself like it is in bodybuilding and sport.

Now anyone who knows me, knows that I teach athletic principles for healthy goal achievement in Performance Lifestyle training, and the one thing I do to be successful at this is, is activate and strengthen my body regularly as part of the lifestyle.

Fitness principles in the context of goal achievement outside of body building or sporting endeavors are applied similarly, but are very different at the same time. Major shifts take place in the duration and frequency.

The reason so many people are unsuccessful maintaining their fitness is because they don’t understand fitness in the context of life and lifestyle where the goals are not ripped bodies and sporting success. You can have both, but in order to have both you need the lifestyle that supports the outcomes and this is what most people don’t have!

It’s not all about long workouts that are hard to sustain and recover from.

It’s very difficult to train like a bodybuilder or sports athlete on top of an already full schedule, that is not naturally set up to support fitness outcomes. Your lifestyle has to support in every way, the outcomes you seek.

The reason why short, intense and consistent workouts are the 3 magic words in fitness, is this… for the people who’s business is outside bodybuilding and sports, it is the only sustainable way train and maintain the levels of fitness you want.

SIC workouts are otherwise known as high intensity training or HIT, or interval training workouts, both very popular ways of training for these very reasons, but less descriptive terms than SIC.

You can have SIC workouts all the time!
Many times a week, when they challenge you and promote growth, yet they don’t deplete you or require you to recover for 48 hours. Bodybuilders and athletes can do that, you probably can’t!

When you don’t understand these 3 magic words, you might be making more out exercise than it needs to be and depriving yourself of the results you want.

We’ll delve more into these concepts in the next 3 posts and will be showing you ways to implement SIC workouts.

JAM