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

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