Break Even Your Most Stubborn Exercise and Weight Loss Plateau

They say you can be a jack of all trades, but a master of none. Your goal is not to do everything under the sun, but instead to master a handful of exercises.

The first thing to do is to select a handful of exercises that you want to master. I recommend selecting 5-9 basic exercises that become your bread and butter movements. Such examples could be squats, pushups, chin ups, dead lifts, any sort of kick, running a mile, rowing 1,000 meters and so on.

Now that you have your exercises, your goal is to become more proficient at them. In our cosmopolitan fitness culture we tend to have goals around how we want our body to change. While this isn't bad, I find that those who focus on becoming better at what they do, rather than how their body changes, tend to have the most success.

If you focus on running a faster mile or lifting more weight you might just discover that those physical image goals take care of themselves.

One great way to accomplish this is to attempt to do more work in a given amount of time or the same amount of work in less time.

Like I mentioned before, you can aim to constantly run a mile in a faster time, or you can run a greater distance in 15 minutes.

This also works great for strength training. I like to use a kitchen timer and I set it for 5 minutes. My goal is to see how many reps I can do of the exercise within that 5 minute period. Then on my next workout I try and break my old record.

This is a great way to help you push yourself to that next level.

Of course, using this method will also result in a plateau at some point. No matter how hard you try you are just not going to be able to run a mile any faster or do more than 100 pushups within that 5 minute period.

When this happens you simply change either the work load or the time limit. For example instead of seeing how fast you can run a mile, you now see how fast you can run 1.5 miles or maybe how fast you can run up a long hill.

When it comes to weight training you can add more weight, or even lower the weight to change your potential rep range. You can also use a different time set so instead of using a 5 minute time limit use a 2 minute time limit to make things a little more urgent.

Whatever you do, don't get caught up in the details. Simply remember that your goal is to become as proficient as possible at a handful of exercises and to not stop looking for new performance potential.

Be fit and live free,

Matt Schifferle

Cut Your Workout in Half and nearly double your results! Stop spending hours on exercise that doesn't produce results!

It is possible, and only available at http://www.TheFitRebel.com Head on over now!