Andrew Cheyne

80% of Your Gains From 20% of Your Workout

Sometime rules that apply to other areas of life shift over to the fitness world.  Have you heard of the 80/20 rule before? It's the rule that states that 80% of your goals come from 20% of your efforts. This also works in the reverse manner.  The reverse of this is also true 80% of your time is wasted achieving only 20% of your goals as well.

Have you heard of the 80/20 rule before? It's the rule that states that 80% of your goals come from 20% of your efforts. The reverse of this is also true 80% of your time is wasted achieving only 20% of your goals as well.

This rule applies in many facets of live. Business, love and it also applies to your workouts. Think about it, when you are exercising what percentage of the time do you actually spend working out. On average it would be about 20% of the time. So, you can then say that about 80% of your fitness goals will be achieved from 20% of the time you spend working out.

If this is the case then we should be able to actually improve upon this. By increasing the intensity of your workout you should be able to achieve greater results in less time. But how can this be done?

The best way to actually do this is through interval fitness training. Interval training is the ultimate way to bust through this 80/20 rule. You can do this by actually increasing the amount of time at the gym actually working out.

By doing exercises one after another with a rest period only after the interval is complete you are increasing the time your bodies muscles are under stress, and therefore increasing the load on them.

There are a few things you have to be careful about when doing this. You must ensure that you are using your fast twitch muscles. Fast twitch muscles are the ones that work when you are lifting weights and other activities that require shorter bursts of activity. Your slow twitch muscles are the muscles that are used for distance training. These are the muscles that are going to be used for aerobic work. So keep your workout anaerobic and ensure that you are using the fast twitch muscles.

Also, make sure you are doing exercises that use the whole body. This is done to ensure that you are working at a high intensity level throughout the entire interval routine. Don't spend too much time on one particular body part. The workout intensity will help them get a great workout, and working a particular body part to much in an interval routine will greatly increase the chance of injury of that part.

Lastly, ensure that you are doing activities that keep you motivated and keep pushing yourself for better results. Improving your body is a great quest and almost no one is ever to the point where they are completely happy with their results. This can lead to major motivational problems and eventually to either quitting the workouts all together or not putting the intensity into them that needs to be there. By doing activities that you actually enjoy you are keeping the motivation there to achieve great results.

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