Five Ways to Improve Your Fitness During The Day

April 18, 2009 on 8:22 am | In Strength Training | 2 Comments

Josh Hanagarne sent over this guest post with some excellent and simple tips in it.  He writes it geared towards high school students during the day, however the tips certainly apply to people in the workplace as well! 

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5 Ways To Improve Your Fitness During Your School Day

As a so-so high-school athlete, I didn’t give much thought to my strength, and forget about things like flexibility, nutrition, etc.  I was on all the teams because we got to go on lots of trips and basketball made the winter go by a little quicker. 

Now that I’m older and maybe a teensy bit wiser, I wish I’d done some things differently.  At 31 years old, I am in the best shape of my life, but I am still trying to undo some less-than-advantageous choices I made way back in High School. 

Good habits start early.  Unfortunately, so do bad ones.  It can be incredibly difficult to break a mental habit, but you can do it.  It can be much harder and more labor-intensive to retrain your body once it has learned some bad habits. 

Looking back, here are five things I would have done differently to increase my athletic ability and overall strength. 

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BONUS – I’ll add that Josh has an excellent sense of humor with his job.  Take a look at his youtube video. 

- Joe Hashey, CSCS -