By Leo Babauta
In this webinar, I talked about the things I’ve found most important for a fit lifestyle. (See notes below.)
I also answered questions about:
- Resting when you’re tired vs. procrastinating because you feel tired.
- Not being able to do both the writing & exercise habits.
- Good vegetarian sources of protein to accompany exercising.
- How to motivate your significant other to exercise.
- How to make the back stronger.
Webinar Notes
Here are the notes from my talk (video is below the notes):
A. Intro: My fitness journey
B. What is fitness:
- being strong, healthy, active, able to do new activities and feel that you have a basic level of fitness.
- That’s going to be different for every person – find your level that you can reach in the next few months, and then change your level from there
C. Best practices:
- Combine strength & cardio
- Combine intensity with medium length
- Injury prevention is key – form and gradual increase
- Gradual building up – allows your body to adapt – gradually build up endurance, but also gradually progress in weights
- Learn form from somebody who knows what they’re doing
- Manage stress & rest – learn auto-regulation (listen to your body)
- Add fun activities
- Fuel with veggies, healthy proteins, good fats, complex carbs
- Change things up every 2-3 months, or at least every 6 months, unless you have a hard-core goal
- Strength training: key lifts – squat, deadlift, bench, chin-up (plus overhead press, dips, rows) – with progressive overload
- Grease the groove – every day, multiple times a day
- Add challenges if needed to inspire you and people around you
- Be mindful in every workout
The Webinar Recording
You can watch the video below or download the video here (or just download the audio):