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5 ways you can maximize your workouts using the F.I.T.T.T. principle.
You've been stuck in the same routine and style of training for a while now right? Wanting some way to improve your workouts, or even just a new way to get some progress after you have plateaued has brought you here. Well how can I maximize my workouts further?
Following a simple 5 step acronym, you can change your workouts accordingly toward your health and fitness goals!
Frequency
How often are you going to the gym, on a run, ab workout, or even being active in general? This first part of our principle is so simple. Increase how often you workout! Instead of 2-3 workouts a week (or a month for some of you), try exercising one additional day! You can even simply increase the number of times you workout in a day. Instead of just working out at the gym, you can add a walk on your treadmill or around the block! Overall, just increase how often you are exercising.
Intensity
Your next step in improving your workouts each day will be your intensity. How hard are you really working during your time at the gym? Are you the guy on the bench who sits on his phone too long and barely breaks a sweat? Or, are you the newbie who is taking their time in the back of the class?
Get your butt in gear! Changing up intensity can be measured in a few ways like, using a heart rate monitor, decreasing your rest time, increasing the amount of weight or effort you're putting into each rep, or even how fast you're doing the exercise. All of these will immediately increase the amount of sweat you are pouring onto the floor and pounds of fat off your belly.
"Intensity is the price of excellence" – Warren Buffett
Time
Time can be easily influenced and influence your intensity. The amount of time you are working out can change your overall volume of exercise by having more time to add more exercises and weight per body part. Decreasing the amount of rest time can change how much more quickly you fatigue your muscles. Going from 5minutes on your phone to a focused 30 second to 1min rest can change how effective each set can be.
Type
The type of training you do will completely change how effective your workouts can be. Most of us are used to a specific way of training. You may be a runner, athlete, weight lifter, or a yogi. All of these are great ways to train! You can enhance any type of training by blending or adapting multiple types of training to get the benefits of that type of training style. Our body wants to adapt to the way we train. Which is why certain body types are associated with specific sports or training styles, like in the image below.
Trainer
The final type that isn't talked about often enough is the trainer or coach you work with. It goes without saying, that a trainer knows how to tackle and work with you on solving your health or fitness goals with professional advice, expertise, and knowledge to help you achieve it as fast and safely as possible without cutting corners.
Trainers all have very different training styles and expertise to help you achieve your goals. They all do it different ways and have many various backgrounds that help contribute to their profession and field of expertise. Just as their are various training types, their are experts and knowledgeable experts to guide you in becoming better at that type.
If you have added or changed any of your training as listed above, comment below on what has worked best for you so far! If you are interested in changing or adding the trainer principle of the FITTT principle, check out Performance Fnatics to help you change and develop your training programs to the next level so you can Peform like a Fnatic!
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