OK, in this week’s dribbling I take on the questions of…

When Does Your Workout Routine Get In the Way of Getting Anything Done? To some people, I wonder if they do with all the working out they do.

In my daily meandering (more like staggering) thru the different sites and profiles on the internet I am involved with, I will run into the many (and I mean MANY) personal trainers who are setting up house out here in La-La-Land.  Some of these guys and gals are pretty dam good and Yes, there are even more that are …trying to find a nice description….hard to do…brain is in overload….OH, crap…don’t have time to find the right word…will just have to use one that sitting here on my desk…. worthless!

In what I am saying and meaning when I use the word worthless is, if you read the content of these trainers’ profiles, web-sites or blogs, of these workout guru’s, fitness experts or whatever tag line they are using to set themselves apart from the literal thousands (or in Facebook terms: hundreds of millions) personal physical workout trainer internet marketers or watch these people’s video’s,  you are giving the impression from all the exercise routines they suggest you need to be doing each day you would be working out every waking moment of the day.

I am thinking after some of the conversations I am having with executives taking fitness experts advise in constant works that maybe the time it is taking to workout is starting to cut into their productivity.  In the busy schedules of the business managers and owners of today, even the 30 minute workout could be hard to do since there is no time in their schedule.

The other day I was chatting online with a gentleman who asked if we could talk after he gets back from his workout.  Of course I agreed.

Then on the scheduled time for our visit on the phone he was on his way to is personal trainer for one of his three day a week boot camp workouts. Since our conversations were leading to a project he wanted to work with me on for his company I was not going to complain for having to schedule another meeting to continue our conversations of ideas.

However, during the next few conversations I did have to start asking what was going on since he was not holding up his end of the deal.  In one meeting where he again was not prepared I asked why he was not able to bring the data we agreed he would accumulate.  He reply was he got tied up in the iron man event he is organizing for his church group.

The next meeting he was late because he had to stop by the fitness equipment center to pick up a few more dumbbells for his workout room.  And during the final meeting where I said for him to email me when he got real, he was on a treadmill panting after every word he had to say.

Yaw, this made me think…when does this guy get anything done..obviously, he does not.  Plus, it got me to thinking..am I ever going to talk to anyone else I meet online?  That probably will not happen, but think about this..

If more people are like this guy talk to more people about wanting to do a deal, more than likely more people are going to ask the questions I just asked..Am I going to deal with anyone else who contacts me from the internet, produces nothing and wastes my workout time?

The fitness craze is great, but when it gets into the way of doing business I am wondering how those businesses will survive.  Guess we will have to see.