Here’s a great fitness tip for you on this fine Memorial Day weekend.  In 30 minutes, on any day of the week, combine three diverse elements – a sledgehammer, kettlebells and rock music – to create a challenging, time-efficient workout.

The concept of doing the “Least Amount of Specific Work” is one of the best fitness tips that I can offer as it will save you time and effort on your way to getting in better shape and leading a healthy lifestyle.

The main variables that make up training programs are intensity and volume, and there’s an inverse relationship between the two.  Understanding how to properly manipulate intensity and volume will help your workouts and allow you to design an effective and efficient training program.

Here’s one of the best fitness tips you’ll ever get; intensity is not a subjective judgment that deals with the difficulty of a workout.  In other words, a 2-hour weight lifting workout, a 45-minute spinning class or machine-based cardiovascular workout isn’t intense in the technical sense of the word.  These are examples of high-volume workouts that by definition cannot also be high-intensity. I’ll repeat it; “intense” doesn’t mean “hard.”