The Everyday Athlete: How to Balance Work, Family, and Fitness for Life

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Put fitness into practice with this balance-driven guide from cyclist, CEO, and coach Art Trapotsis. Do the demands of your career, family, and life constantly sabotage your efforts to improve your fitness? Exercise is vitally important for good health, but it usually takes a back seat when life becomes busy. You might prioritize your work and family relationships out of what seems like necessity, but before you realize it, your fitness goals are pushed aside and you feel stressed out and unbalanced. The bright side? It doesn't have to be that way. In The Everyday Athlete, Art Trapotsis—father, husband, CEO, and endurance athlete—shares How fitness is the most important—and often overlooked—ingredient to finding balance in life How to develop and nourish a fitness mindset and make exercise a consistent part of your routine Methods and best practices to get fitter without jeopardizing your relationships or career Current, former, and future athletes of all kinds, from seasoned competitors to weekend warriors, will find useful tools for improving fitness along with work-life balance. The included "KIT Quiz" offers a gut check on your current balance and tips for how you can improve it. Whether you're training for a major event, reviving your fitness routine, or starting fresh, you'll find motivation and inspiration from the author's personal stories and unique approach for squeezing fitness into a busy life, thereby creating balance. Everyone can be an athlete, every day. Chapter 1: Finding Your Way to a Balanced Life Chapter 2: My Own Fitness Journey Chapter 3: Approaching Fitness Alongside Work, Family, and Friends Bike-Path Conversation: Making Time for Friends Chapter 4: Defining Fitness Chapter 5: The KIT Quiz: Determine Your Current Balance Chapter 6: The Key Ingredient to Balance Bike-Path Conversation: Don’t Go Overboard Chapter 7: Group Exercise: A Motivational Way to Fitness Bike-Path Conversation: Stop Messing Around! Chapter 8: Partnering with Your Family Chapter 9: Making Fitness Work—at Work Bike-Path Conversation: For Business Owners or Managers Chapter 10: Identifying Your Crabbiness Index Chapter 11: One Pathway to Balance: The Weekend-Warrior Lifestyle Chapter 12: Yes, Even Parents of Young Children Can Stay Fit Chapter 13: Best Practices: How to “Keep It Tight” Chapter 14: Fitness for Life Bike-Path Conversation: Get Over Yourself Acknowledgments Appendix: Great Apps Used for Training and Fitness About the Author