Building your own Bespoke 80/20 Plan
When it comes to building your own 80/20 plan, both man and woman, big and small can use the same framework, perform the same exercises and still see the results that they want to see. How? It all boils down to intensity – the ‘skin’.
Intensity is essentially the making or breaking of any body. How YOU perform within YOUR training session determines how close you get to your goals. What is important is that your intensity remains high if you really want to see your body change. In a nutshell – go hard or go home really is the motto – the key is to understand what HARD means to you and how YOU get there.
What is intensity?
Intensity refers to how much energy is expended when exercising. It differs between person to person, depending on their current level of fitness. Generally, the fitter you are, the harder it is to increase your heart rate. Applied, this means that a fit athlete would have to train at a higher intensity than your average Joe to get his heart rate to the same number of beats per minute. This is because his body has become much more efficient at being able to bring his heart rate back down to resting rate than Joe, here.
How do I know what intensity I need to be training at?
The best way to understand what intensity you are currently training at is to use a heart rate monitor both when you are training – and not – to gauge what your resting heart rate is and what you manage to increase it to when you train. Once you have figured this out, you can then use the Borg Scale (see link here) to see where you sit in terms of perceived exertion.
For me, as long as my training regime manages to increase my resting heart rate to more than 60% of my maximum, I am increasing my aerobic capacity and improving my endurance.
How do I do this?
SO to develop my 80% body – I use a very simple training plan, which I will outline on the next page in the attached downloadable PDF.
See overleaf for your PDF training plan!