Buffer Time

When you go to the gym, it’s easy to check out of the rest of your life for a while. You can leave your phone in the car, put work thoughts on hold and fully commit to yourself for an hour to so. 

You have to drive to the gym in order to start. Maybe you crank some music, which I know many of you do since we can hear you pulling into the parking lot. This buffer period gets you mentally ready to train, whether you’ve realized it or not. Just like my 30 minute drive home at night gets me ready to cook dinner, put my phone on silent and hang out with my wife. 

While we’re training at home, we don’t have these buffer times to get us ready for the next task. We can’t drop everything and train, because we’re trying to balance everything and train. Trying to go from emails to cooking dinner is equally as tough.

To combat this, I’ve been trying to build in buffer times around things. Take a walk before a workout, stretch before cooking dinner and commit to leaving my phone out of reach while training. All these things help create those buffer zones so I can try to focus on the task at hand - not everything at once.

How have you been shifting gears while trying to do everything at home? 

Justin Miner

@justinminergain