No love handles now? Just wait - Nutrition Notes - MSNBC.com
Most successful professionals become virtuosos in their craft through willpower and the force of their personality. The world of top tier lawyers, business executives, financiers and other rainmakers is full of Type-A, hard charging individuals who always seemed to go the extra mile and put in more effort than their peers to get where they are today. I have also found that many of these people also tend to be former athletes since the competitive arena tends to bring out the best in people's performance both on and off the field of play.
So, how do rainmakers who are no stranger to spartan working and training regimens become softer, less fit versions of themselves by the time that they hit their late thirties or early forties? This article talks about this phenomenon: it creeps up on you.
Time is not kind. As you get older, most peoples' exercise routines suffer, fancy dinners are frequent and a life of leisure becomes a reward for your hard work. However, you must remember my guiding principle of training: always accelerate uphill.
If you cannot work out longer, work out harder. If you can't skip that dinner with a client, compensate for it with what you keep in your fridge at home. And, as time passes by, you must continue to challenge yourself with fresh approaches, new techniques and arduous regimens that keep your body guessing.
Accelerating uphill works to make you stand out from the crowd--in how you look and feel--for one simple reason: most people don't. Isn't that what got you to where you are today in the first place?
