AMA #17: Making Time for Fitness, Top Sleep Tools & Best Learning Strategies

I will say this: I found, having tried many many different fitness schedules, many many different combinations of resistance training and cardiovascular training, that the best solution is to find what you can do on a consistent basis and to try and do that as many days and weeks of the year as possible.

Skipping a workout every once in awhile is not going to crater your entire fitness program ... You should try, on average, to make somewhere between 85-95% of your workouts.

I will say that any time I do resistance training workouts two days in a row, I make sure that I take a complete day off the following third day.

Sometimes I have to travel on a Monday, so I don't have the option to train legs that day. In which case, what I will do is either slide that workout to Sunday—meaning I'm doing both long slow distance cardio and the leg workout—or I'll slide it to Tuesday, which is typically a rest day.

If you work out at a given time pretty consistently, your autonomic nervous system will start to anticipate that timing and you'll start to feel an increase in energy around that time.

I like to have my workouts done before 9 AM, and ideally before 8:30 AM, so that I can move into my work day.

I personally am not going to compromise sleep and my overall health in order to get workouts in.

If I'm going to train legs, typically the next day will be a complete day off no matter what.