11 Tips For Training On A Busy Schedule

Parents who take up body building, or body builders who start families, usually have to contend added responsibilities on top of their demanding schedules.

Succeeding in body building should not and must never be exchanged with parental irresponsibility. The problem is that both responsibilities, that of maintaining a consistent progressive body building program and of being a good parent, demands a lot of time. To successfully meet the requirements for both, the body builder must master creativity and ingenious scheduling techniques.

To begin with, individuals having this challenge should know that very many body builders are successfully balancing their parental responsibilities with body building. It can be done, and in essence, it is being done. The idea is to structure the day for workouts and of the children. Besides dropping them of to school, taking them to the occasional event in their lives, going to the grocery, talking out the garbage and doing the laundry, it is possible to create quality time with your children.

The following are key guidelines to effective time management:

1. Share the parental responsibility with the partner if you are not a single parent.
2. Teach the children how to do some basic things for themselves such as cleaning up, dressing and tidying their rooms.
3. Make the body building diet a family diet. It is safe and very effective in maintaining the good health of both you and your kids. This saves time for you since you don't have to cook several meals in the house for the kids and for yourself.
4. Spend some time in the gym together with the children so that they appreciate what you do and how demanding it is both physically and mentally.
5. Delegate some tasks in the house to the older children and share out the day to day family responsibilities.
6. Wake up early and schedule your day's tasks carefully allocating specific time for family responsibilities, workouts and the job if any.
7. Get help from a nanny, house help or baby sitter but don't use this as the escape route to irresponsibility as a parent. You are still the parent and should shoulder most of the parental responsibilities yourself.
8. Build and furnish a home gym instead of going to a membership gym. This will help in saving time and in making workouts possible at odd hours when membership gyms may be closed, like late at night or very early in the morning.
9. Create family activity days that help you to keep acti8ve without attending the gym while giving the family a fun time together.
10. Be realistic in what you can do and when you can do it. Don't just pile up the tasks in the daily schedule such that you are spread all over very thin. It finally gets into you and you burn out.
11. Whatever you do, spare enough time to rest and get quality sleep. Body building will not be successful unless you give your muscles adequate time to recover from workout exhaustion and of course to grow. Hustle with all other responsibilities but allocate enough rest time.

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