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Most have heard of the 80/20 rule as it applies to sales.  Vilfredo Pareto’s (1848 – 1923) law of income distribution was and still is ridiculously predictable. 

Pareto’s brilliance dictates that 80% of sales comes from 20% of customers.  After closer inspection most businesses find this not only true but sometimes skewed even further – 90/10, 95/5 or even 99/1.

Stick with me on this one…I promise I will tie it in to fitness in general and most importantly how it relates to two things:  1.)  Why this principle will directly affect your ability to lose fat while working out at home.  2)  How this principle is the underlying reason why you have had trouble getting in shape in the past.

It stands to reason that when the 20 percent is defined, you strip away as much of the fat in the remaining 80% as possible for more results thus creating more efficiency.

Example with easy math:  If company X has 100 customers that it services then 80% of the revenue comes from 20 leads or customers.  Usually the 80 customers in this example don’t order often, complain the most and require the most customer service.

Does it make sense to spend 80% of the time working hard for 20%, or less, of the sales?

What if Company X profiled the 20 customers that bring in 80+ percent of the revenue and go out and find more customers like them while essentially firing the most of the 80 customers that hardly ever order product and or complain all the time?

Revenue would go through the roof and headaches would diminish.

Simple – but it works.

According to Pareto this principle can be applied to almost anything.  Let me explain with a series of questions.  (Be careful as the answers will be very eye opening)

• What things are the 20% in your life that bring you 80% of your joy?
• What aspects of your life are the 20% that bring you 80% of the unhappiness?
• Who in your life brings you the most happiness?
• Who in your life brings you the most sadness?

Here comes the fitness tie in…you knew it was comin’!

Look at your fitness program and diet.  Evaluate it according to the 80/20 rule.  Here are some suggestions:

• What foods represent the 20% that is causing you to gain 80% of your fat weight?
• What foods in your diet are the 20% that are providing 80% of the fuel you need for recovery from your workouts and to keep you healthy?
• Is there 20% of your schedule that is causing 80% of the reasons you skip workouts?
• What exercises are you doing in your workouts that will give you 80%, or better, results than the rest?
• Are your workouts designed to keep you consistent at least 80% of the time – week in and week out?

I was re-introduced to the 80/20 rule recently as I was reading The Four Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris.  I immediately thought of my 10 minute whole body workouts and how they fit the 80/20 model perfectly.

Actually for the members of HomeOfficeWorkouts.com it looks more like 90/10!

How would you like to get 90% or your results in less time?

Using complex movements (multiple muscle groups at once) and combining strength training and an increased heart rate – 10 minute whole body workouts are fast, repeatable, efficient and effective.

Is it the big things or a laundry list of obstacles that keep you from your fitness dreams?  Or is it just a few actions or in-actions that pruduce most of your failure?

Find the 20%.  Discover the 80%.  Win.

Dave
www.homeofficeworkouts.com
“Fast , Repeatable, Efficient, Effective”

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What obstacles stand in the way of you losing weight and getting in shape?

The first time I saw this video I cried my eyes out.  Followed by the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th times.  I can now watch it keeping my composure but I still become very emotional and it has as much to do with the underlying message as it does my own personal faith in God.

No matter what your own personal religious beliefs (or even if you are agnostic or an atheist) you can relate to the struggle.  The struggle of trying like hell to lose weight and workout from home.  To many things – LIFE – pulling at you to get it done.

Watch this video.  Get motivated and win!

Do you workout religiously but never seem to get the results you are looking for?

More realistically, most people workout from home like crazy…for a short period of time – then life gets in the way and they stop.  What comes next, eventually, is another restart after going through the emotions of submitting to the fact you can’t lose weight (again), feelings of failure and negativity followed by acceptance that “this is the way it is”.

It doesn’t have to be.

Get more done in 10 minutes than most people do with their hour and a half workouts.

Peace,

Dave
www.homeofficeworkouts.com

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