Creating an Executive Life Part 4 - How You Really Should Approach Your Workouts

What if I told you that the thing people thought was most important for getting in better shape, really wasn’t all that important?

And that most people approach this part of their program all wrong?

So far in the Creating Your Executive Life series, we’ve talked about assessing your lifestyle and goals, managing expectations, building habits, and establishing a flexible, sustainable nutrition plan.

But the one thing we haven’t really talked much about yet is training. And there’s a reason for that.

It simply isn’t as important as the rest.

Now, don’t mistake what I’m saying: Training and exercise are important. But compared to everything else involved in a sustainable, health-first fitness plan to help you create your Executive Life, training is at the bottom of the totem pole.

1. Lifestyle Assessment

2. Expectation Management

3. Habit Mastery

4. Simplified Nutrition

5. MED Training

So you may be thinking:?“What the hell does MED Training even mean?”

MED stands for Minimum Effective Dose - which is how you want to approach training and exercise in order to build a fit, healthy body and life.

In my time as a coach, one common theme I’ve noticed among people who struggle to get and keep results is that they treat exercise and training like it has no negative consequences.

They treat it like it exists independently of their nutrition and lifestyle.

Tell me if this sounds familiar…

You’re trying to lose fat, working out 4-5 days per week but nothing is happening. So you add in a HIIT a few days per week, and start running a few miles the other days.

Or maybe your goal is to build muscle, but you’re not seeing results from your 4-day split, so you switch to a 6-day split or start training twice per day.

Regardless of which category you fall in, the results are often the same…

Initially, you may see a little boost in progress, but after a while, you plateau again. Progress stops, you’re constantly battling physical or mental fatigue, low energy, and now, if you want to see another small boost in progress, you have to try and find time to get even more exercise in - because that’s what’s going to produce results, right?

Wrong.

Yet this is a common belief the Results-At-Any-Cost fitness industry has instilled in most people: That you can just force results by working more and working harder.

But the problem is, training and exercise don’t exist in a vacuum. You cannot continuously pound your body with more and more activity without giving something back in return.

When it comes to training and exercise, there is always a point of diminishing returns.

There’s always a tradeoff. And that tradeoff comes in many different forms depending on what you’re trying to accomplish.

You can’t add more exercise without altering the intensity, increasing calories, adding more rest/recovery, or improving your stress management.

Because everything is connected. Training is not independent of everything else.

That’s what it means to train efficiently. It means maximizing the upsides of training while minimizing the downsides.

Which is always why we want to utilize the Minimum Effective Dose for your goals.

And this is also why, as I said earlier, training matters but it doesn’t matter quite as much as everything else. Because without everything else, your training won’t be nearly as effective.

Because again, everything affects everything.

Your training, nutrition, sleep, stress, digestion, lifestyle...it’s all connected. They’re all connected to each other, and they’re all connected to your results.

This is why at Sustain Health & performance, we don't just focus on the numbers on a scale or your before and after picture. We focus on helping you structure everything about your life, so you can more easily bigger a fitter, healthier body, and a longer, more enjoyable life.

That's what our Executive Life Transformation program is all about.

It’s not just a diet.

It’s not just workouts.

It’s a comprehensive approach for getting in the best shape of your life, for the rest of your life.

And next week we're going to be opening the doors to our first group of executives, business owners, and busy professionals who what guidance and support in building their own Executive Life.

If you're interested in learning more about our program, and how our approach can help you get fit, improve performance, have more energy, and optimize your health for the rest of your life, shoot me a DM or comment 'EXECUTIVE' below and I'll reach out.

Talk soon,

Coach Jorden