The Next Big Fitness Thing

There are lots of claims about the next big revolution in fitness that fly around yearly, even monthly. Thing is, the latest fitness revolution likely isn’t coming, or at least isn’t as big of a deal as people might think. Of course, many are still anticipating the discovery of the magic pill or magic bullet, whichever term you choose, that'll get everyone fit while putting in 0 effort for it. One step short of that isn’t going to be making it’s debut any time soon either, sorry fam.
 
Peloton, the Mirror and the like were not that big of a deal (glorified hype people, not coaches, isn’t new by the way).

Wearables aren’t that accurate and didn’t bring any new knowledge about. We knew it was helpful to get your heart rate elevated a few times a week and get some steps in long before those things existed. It kept them top of mind for more people, so that is the up side of them. The basics have always worked and always will.
 
Whatever the next big thing folks claim they have (whether it’s on a TV show, infomercial or wherever), it’s not going to be that big of a deal.
 
New movements (exercises) to put in the repertoire aren’t a bad thing, but aren’t going to change things drastically for coaches. If they claim to do so, I’ve got some canned unicorn tears to sell you, my friend.
 
Now, I’m always a critic of people that say what things don’t work or to not do things without providing either evidence or at least something to do instead. Here’s what I got for you;
 
Firstly, don’t get rid of any of the products I mentioned above if they’re helping you get your movement in (unless it’s a bosu ball, that should be lit on fire, somewhere safe). I'm not one to poo poo on things that help folks get their movement in, too many struggle with doing so to begin with, so do you my friend.
 
Next, if you haven’t purchased any of these “revolutionary" products I can save you some time and tell you what you can do for yourself before investing in them.
 
-Get movement in 3-5 times a week, bare minimum of 2 of those days being resistance training.
 
-Get your heart rate up for 20 minutes straight once to twice a week, can be walking, biking, jogging (…ow but OK), swimming, whatever works.
 
-Stand up from that desk as often as you can, if you want to be a maniac and set a timer have at and god speed, but mostly just get up from your desk every 60-90 minutes if you can. I get life happens so trying to be reasonable here.
 
-Eat protein with every meal along with a good serving of vegetables.
 
-Get your butt to bed as early as you can, when you can. 7 hours is the low side and if you have a hard time hitting that, try to balance it out sleeping in a bit another day.
 
There, that’s the basics and it’ll be tough to prove those inferior to whatever next big thing someone claims.
 
Thanks for reading friends and have a good Wednesday