The Optimum Performance Window

by Andreas Cahling

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Life is very much about priorities. How we prioritise greatly determine the quality, content and results of our activities. If you decide to learn a new language but put studying low on your priority list, maybe only as an option if there is extra time, you will not be likely to make rapid progress even if you have great linguistic talents. Actually someone with less talent will probably make faster progress, if they have put their language study as a top priority to be done several times a day no matter what.

Bodybuilding and Weight Training is no different. To excel you have to make it a high priority in your life and not treat it like a casual thing to be done when and if you are done with everything else.

I build my days with my mostly daily workouts being the focal point. Everything else is made to fit around this event. That means that I plan ahead and employ what I call workout timing. I have a meal prepared and timed to give me workout energy just at the right time before the gym. It is like a window opening and closing and my workout has to take place while the window is open. It is the Optimum Performance Window. If I wait too long after eating and my energy and blood sugar starts going down the Optimum Performance Window starts to close. For this reason I do not run errands, stop for shopping, or some other activity which might require more time than expected, on my way to the gym. When I leave for the gym there is only one place where I am going and that is To The Gym. This also means that I avoid getting stuck on the phone, or caught up in anything else before leaving my home that will rob me of this important workout timing and start closing the Optimum Performance Window.

When I leave for the gym my whole biological system reacts and goes into a different zone or dimension. My body and my mind are aware of what is coming and my system starts to prepare. After all these years of repeating the process, I go to the gym with my internal autopilot activated. It is and for me must be a tunnel vision experience.

To some people this might all sound like a radical and obsessed approach. Yes, it is an obsessed approach. It is also a rewarding and result producing approach. If you want to excel at something it better be at the top of your priority list. Mozart probably did not put doing the laundry or playing cards higher on his priority list than he did creating music. Creating a great body or creating great music or creating anything else in life follows the same formula for success. It has to be high on your list of priorities. Start making your priority list now and take action unless you have already done so.

Andreas Cahling

www.andreascahling.com