Widen Your Playing Field

The National Football League is considering widening its playing field. Check it out here. What does that mean? Who cares?

Well, there are important circumstances. Routes will be run differently. Wide receivers, defensive backs, and linebackers would have more area to cover, which means they will have to sprint longer distances. Agility will have to work for 17.5 extra feet to either side of the field.

Sometimes, you have to widen your playing field in order to produce better results. Now, the NFL gets results. But, the regular "Joe/Jane Schmo" may need more options when trying to fit into that spring/summer bikini or old one piece. Or, squeeze into some Levi's - do they still make them? Or lastly, finish a race or fitness challenge. For athletes, widening the playing field most likely takes on a literally perspective - the field or court on which they play is widened.

Simple as that.

For general fitness individuals, widening your playing field more closely means to widen your resources. With the spring season arriving, outdoor activities will increase. Or, At least they should increase. You know those pants or that suit you used to wear and would like to look good in again? Well, it is still time right now to get your body moving and in shape. March holds Easter this year, but it is also a month where individuals slack off their exercise regimens. All of those so-called New Year's resolutions to go to the gym dwindle. Either people give up, quit, do not care, or run into some kind of rut without knowing how to escape it.

Do not let 2013 be a narrow year for you. Widen its resourceful parts and not your hindparts.

Purpose and Development,
Derek

Derek Arledge, CSCS                         TEEM Performance Training                      www.teempt.com