Building a Year’s Exercise Plan Around the St Pierre RushFit Program

Aug 22
11:25

2012

cheryl boswell

cheryl boswell

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The importance of creating a year's exercise plan and total body workout.

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One of the things that really gets under my skin is the idea that because you are new to getting into shape,Building a Year’s Exercise Plan Around the St Pierre RushFit Program Articles you shouldn’t be thinking about more than today’s workout and today’s workout alone. 

The thinking goes that a person will be intimidated by knowledge of what they have in front of them and it will serve to overwhelm.  The wisdom goes that the more experienced fit individual will better be able to handle larger scale planning for months in advance.  I couldn’t disagree more with the proposition that thinking long-term is strictly the province of the advanced exerciser.

I personally feel one of the big impediments to beginners sticking it out through those difficult first couple months is that they lose sight of a couple truths about themselves and fitness. The reality is that they were fit when they were younger, not because they were younger but because they were more generally active on a daily basis.  The other thing to contemplate is the future isn’t limited to just these 8 weeks in the George St. Pierre RushFit program. As I have said many times, you won’t get much of anything by just doing the program once and stopping.

Exercise needs to be a habit and this means having a plan. Again looking at the example of your journey through the St. Pierre Rushfit program, you need to have a plan for how it fits into the larger whole. In future articles I want to discuss the importance of high intensity interval training workouts into your larger whole. This doesn’t mean you have do something like this year round. It simply means that you’ll see huge benefits by being varied in your approach and when you are talking about fitness, strength, and great looking results, workouts like George St. Pierre RushFit are great to build around.

I recommend that you take on a high intensity interval program right from the jump and then see how you do. If you are brand new, consider RushFit or a program with similar demands on your total body for a similar length of time (Insanity is an example) and do it twice in a row. This gives you comforting knowledge that you only have to improve a little each time and you don’t really necessarily have to master it right away. This is an easy example of the importance of thinking long-term and having a plan, even for a beginner.