Busy Executives Guide to Fast Fitness

You work and work all day, leaving little time to eat much less work out. Yet fitness is on the minds of thousands of professionals. Fitness often comes in the form of a goal rather than a reality for many hard working executives.

I'm here to tell you that you can realize your goals and build a firmer, leaner physique working out in just 12 minutes per day. In fact, you can develop a solid weight training routine and begin realizing results in just 6 weeks flat.

The Secret of Fast Fitness

So how exactly does one get fit fast? Everyone has 12 minutes per day. In fact, I'll bet you can find 12 minutes twice per day. You can establish a 12 minute work out routine six days per week. This routine should incorporate strength training exercises and cardiovascular activity if possible.

The key is selecting four different exercises if strength training, such as: Squats, Bench Press, Bent Rows and Barbell Curls. Pick exercises that will work out each of the major muscle groups in the body. You should select a weight you can lift approximately 15 times for one repetition.

Now here's the catch to a successful work out you must perform each set with perfect form, and take it slow. Take a full 4 seconds when raising the weight and 4 seconds when lowering it in order to get an effective work out. When you slow down your movement, you take out the momentum factor. You are forcing your muscles to move the weight, and as a result muscles get toned much more quickly than they would otherwise.

Cardiovascular activity is also essential to fast fitness. Take 12 minutes out of your day to walk, job, and bike, climb stairs or perform any other cardiovascular activity that will get your heart pumping. If you're in a crowded office building, you're likely to find stairs nearby you can climb at least a few times per day. You'll stimulate your metabolism to function more efficiently by doing so.

Eat Clean

You can't expect to drop pounds fast and efficiently if you don't eat smart. Cut out all processed foods and high sugary sweets. Some primary offenders include excess breads, pastas, cookies, candies, sodas you get the picture. Change your diet so that you are consuming lots of lean proteins and complex carbohydrates.

Also be sure to incorporate protein, carbohydrate and fat into each of your meals. Prepare things ahead of time so you don't have to worry about finding food at the last minute.

One of the simplest things you can do to jump start your fast fitness program is break your meals down so that you are eating several times per day. By doing so, you'll in essence be telling your metabolism it needs to work faster and more efficiently.

Fast fitness is possible, even for the busiest executive. By taking just a few minutes out of every day, you can start making some changes that will result in a lifetime of better fitness and well being.

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Steve Preston , President of Fast Fitness has been training and counseling clients for 15 years. He offers personal fitness training, metabolic testing and customized fitness and nutrition plans. His new guide "How to Build a Leaner, Firmer Body in Six Weeks" teaches busy moms and executives how to drop pounds and lose weight working out just 12 minutes per day. His guide offers individualized weekly work out routines and menu plans to help make life easy. You can read more about his guide and his other fitness guides and services at: http://www.fast-fitness.net

Copyright 2004 Steve Preston