How Bodybuilding Can Help You Become a Better Student
Tuesday September 26, 2006
Now that school is back in session many students who started bodybuilding during the Summer find it hard to balance the bodybuilding lifestyle with the demands of school. During my college days I found that the best weapons to use were impeccable discipline combined with clever time management skills and good priority handling in order to balance bodybuilding with school work.
In How Bodybuilding Can Help You Become a Better Student, my good friend, champion teenage bodybuilder and certified fitness trainer, Anthony Alayon discusses how the discipline that is learned through bodybuilding can also be used for enhancing your school life. Since Anthony is currently attending college, handling 18 credit hours while holding a steady job and bodybuilding, I thought it would be a great idea for him (instead of me who finished college a while back) to put an article together discussing what his secrets to balancing all of these variables are. After reading his article, I noticed that the same principles he uses are the ones that I used to survive 4 years of engineering school, married and working, while still managing to follow my bodybuilding lifestyle.
In addition, Anthony covers tips on how to better manage your time so that work, school and bodybuilding are all performed at top efficiency.
In How Bodybuilding Can Help You Become a Better Student, my good friend, champion teenage bodybuilder and certified fitness trainer, Anthony Alayon discusses how the discipline that is learned through bodybuilding can also be used for enhancing your school life. Since Anthony is currently attending college, handling 18 credit hours while holding a steady job and bodybuilding, I thought it would be a great idea for him (instead of me who finished college a while back) to put an article together discussing what his secrets to balancing all of these variables are. After reading his article, I noticed that the same principles he uses are the ones that I used to survive 4 years of engineering school, married and working, while still managing to follow my bodybuilding lifestyle.
In addition, Anthony covers tips on how to better manage your time so that work, school and bodybuilding are all performed at top efficiency.
Comments
A very interesting topic. I’ve always felt exercise in general improves discipline.
It’s interesting that such a common sense topic is rarely the subject of a book or even health articles. Hunter H. Cashdollar
What about factors beyond mental ones? I read that bodybuilding might actually produce increases in mental energy because you inrease the glycogen stores in your muscles a lot so there’s more to draw upon during shortages, as well as better regulation?
I’d guess the ability to relax and have lower resting heart rate would help in calmly solving problems too, right?