Finally Project O Is Revealed!

My mom has always been fit and loves to workout. But for a while now she had been too busy to do anything.

Sound familiar? Is there not enough time in your day with kids, school, work, side projects, church, etc.

So we sat down and figured out somethings she can do to change it. I wasn’t able to drive 2 hours and then another 2 back so we planned extra hard on how we were gonna fix this.

What I came up with was the “EZ Formula #7″.

A guideline of 7 things to do when there’s “no time” for anything:

1. Plan Ahead- I know you’ve hear this one a gajillion times but most people don’t do it. Im talking about 72%. Take 5 min to plan how your next week will be. From food, to workouts, to grocery shopping. Just plan a time for everything. We made my mom sit down and actually plan things that are important for her to do. She does about 10,000 things a weeks so planning helped figure out how to do them all.
2. Write Things Down- Write down what you need to do, goals, workouts, everything. Put it all over your house. When I really wanna do something I write it down and post it everywhere i’m always at. (mainly the fridge). Put pictures of what you wanna look like or don’t wanna look like. Put pictures of your kids to show you that’s what your doing this for. My mom’s main problem was forgetting to workout since it was something new to her schedule. So we wrote it all over her office and home. Writing things down makes you actually visualize it.
3. Cook- Ever heard the saying “you cook better to look better“? This is one of the most effective tips for my moms transformation. Cooking and cooking in bulk allows you to have more meals ready for your week. When we started she would cook right before she would eat. So eventually she got burned out and had no time to cook. We figured out on sunday after church she had an hour to cook some of her favorite meals in bulk and put them in tupperware. That way instead of forgetting a meal and rushing to Mcdonalds she had one ready in her tupperware.
4. Eat Every 3-4 Hours- Eating smaller meals every 3-4 hours keeps your body out of starvation mode and boosts your metabolism. With her schedule we figured out a simple meal schedule. She’d wake up and eat at 8am, go into work at 9am. at about 10-1030 am she would have a snack like a shake or a bar, at 1pm she’d be out for lunch so she would eat a meal she already had prepared, at 3 or 4pm she’d have a snack or a meal depending how hungry she was, at 5pm she’d get out of work, 6pm she’d workout, 7pm she’d drink her recovery shake, and at 9 or 10 depending on how she felt she’d have a snack of cottage cheese or a protein meal.
5. Master P- Protein is key with everything. Every meal or snack had to have protein for 3 main reasons. 1 your body requires more calories to digest protein this is the thermogenic effect of food. 2 protein allows you to feel full almost as much as fiber does. 3 protein builds and maintains muscle THIS IS THE MAIN REASON!!!
6. Expect Failure- With my moms job there are always surprise meetings all the time. So if she had not time to eat because a surprise meeting was called she always had a protein bar or shake in her office ready. Sometimes she would forget her meal at home so she put another shake in her car. Not the protein bar cause it would melt. All you need to do is have a shaker bottle and put some protein powder in there. Just have it ready in case you need it and when you do just add water and your all set.
7. No Time Workouts- Alot of the time my mom only had 2o-40 min to workout. That is perfect. Nobody actually needs 2-3 hours of working out! Stick to 30-40 min intervals. They are more intense but burn 9x more fat than traditional training in half the time. There’s no gym in my small hometown so my mom would workout at home. I would send her workouts we do at camp Really all she had were a pair of 15lb dumbells and that was it. There’s no need for fancy equipment, bodyweight workouts are awesome. Who cares if you can curl 300lbs when you can’t even do a pull up right? Try this quick simple workout.  Squat 20 sec, 10 sec break, run in place 20 sec, 10 sec break, push up 20 sec, 10 sec break, lunges 20 sec, 10 sec break, jump clap 20 sec. Do this rest a minute and repeat 4 times.

After we added the “EZ formula #7″ to my moms life things took a drastic change for the better.