As a bodybuilder, time management is always a troublesome task that most fail at. Most bodybuilders who quit normally fail only because they mismanaged their time and as such success became an illusion. The major problems in a bodybuilding program usually result from or are triggered by poor time management. A program that is destined to succeed and one that is destined to fail have this one thing in difference, time management.
However, despite this importance of time management, most beginning bodybuilders overlook it and don’t consider it even when a training program is underway. Wanting to build massive muscles, planning to adjust weight lifting exercises, planning to start a diet plan, or even hoping to grow out of a plateau is all good. But that’s all, well. And bodybuilding cannot be based on good things; rather, success in bodybuilding often increased due to extraordinary commitment to achieving these resolutions.
Most people stay off the red carpet just because they don’t have time for intense muscle-building workouts. Bodybuilders also have bills to pay at the end of the month and therefore have to work. Others are students with tons of class work to cover every day. They also have family and friends, all of whom demand a portion of the time available to a bodybuilder. With demanding professional, family, social, and personal commitments, bodybuilding often takes a back seat or is written off the to-do list altogether. However, despite this, bodybuilding is a passion that can always take the front bench if time is strictly accounted for and such useless tasks as hours in front of the TV are thrown out the window. There is always time for bodybuilding in everyone’s life if one looks for it long enough.
What translates good resolutions into results is proper time management. Once all the plans are in place, it’s time to hit the gym and consistently follow a training schedule. The key ingredient of successful time management is actually commitment. When a bodybuilder is fully committed to the business of building muscle, he will use time as precious incense. When you see a guy walk by and have to look back and look at his chest, legs, biceps, or stomach, he remembers that he wasn’t born that way. It takes a commitment to schedules and a discipline in the use of every minute of the day in the pursuit of such refinement of physics.
Time management doesn’t mean limiting yourself to the mundane tasks on your to-do list, or striving for all the fun in your day. This negative connotation of time management is partially responsible for making bodybuilders and other athletes hate time management skills as well. Rather, time management means incorporating all the necessary activities that make up your everyday life, including fun and grilling too, into a workable schedule. Each of these tasks and activities is assigned a time frame and the available time is allocated based on priority. The biggest advantage of time management is the ability to secure volumes of time that might otherwise have been wasted and channel it toward profitable ventures.
With a good time management policy, nothing is taken for granted and nothing is forgotten. Although time management is and will continue to be a thorny topic among bodybuilders, simple time management strategies like journaling can help make the accomplishments of a bodybuilding program achievable.