Convenience is Key

A quick internet search for quotes about convenience throws up lots and lots about how bad convenience can be for the soul, the person, the community. In essence, convenience is apparently bad for just about everything according to the internet. However, I disagree. If things are easily accessible and convenient then you are more likely to use them.

This applies to your health and fitness as much as anything else in life. So, while convenience can be viewed as a non-desirable thing it can also be a strength.

Sure, the convenience of processed food can lead to negative health outcomes. And the convenience of streaming services makes it easy to sit on the sofa for hours leading to inactivity and the various metabolic conditions that can arise from not moving enough. And, and, and… The list goes on and on.

However, if we reframe how we look at convenience we can certainly turn it into a positive. To quote the creator of the Personal Trainer Development Center, Jonathan Goodman, “Optimize for workout proximity. The closer it is to your home, more convenient it is to do, and better it fits into your schedule, the more often you’ll do it.”

How often have you put off doing something because it is not convenient?

That could include going to the gym or doing a workout.

Before I started Power of One Fitness, I was a teacher. To make sure I went to the gym, I would go there straight after work. I also chose a gym that was not difficult to get to, and was not that busy, and was close to the rugby club where I had training a couple of times a week. All of that meant I could get my workout in conveniently. It was convenient to get to from work, and to get home from after a workout. It was convenient to do the workout as often the equipment was not being used. It was convenient to get to rugby training after working out. In short, it worked as it fitted into my location and schedule.

That is why I started training people online via the Power of One Fitness app: it made things more convenient for people (as well as being very cost effective!), allowing me to hit one of my mission statements – to help as many people as possible be as healthy as they could be.

No matter where people were in the world, or what their time parameters were, or what (if any) equipment they had available, or what their goals were, or what their availability was compared to my schedule, training became instantly accessible to them. It became convenient.

The programming would be bespoke to them and take into account all of the tangible factors mentioned above. They could take their smartphone to wherever they wanted, whenever they wanted, and do the workout that had been programmed just for them.

So convenience is not a bad thing. It is a good thing when used for the right purposes.

And if you would like a chat about how online training could be a convenient alternative for you to become fitter, leaner, stronger and healthier, click the gold button right below this paragraph and let’s get that chat in the diary.