The Official Blog of Tara Marie Segundo, M.A.

My 168 Hours Rule® states that it’s not the hours that you’re formally exercising that are the most significant in your life when it comes to staying lean and fit.  The most significant hours are those waking hours when you’re not engaged in formal exercise.  These hours far outweigh those that you are working out and will either support or destroy your efforts to stay in good shape.

People who are in the gym the most are not the most fit.  This is a fact. There are people who work very hard in the gym or otherwise training, and they do it 4 or 5 times per week for an hour or more.  However, these people are not necessarily the leanest and most conditioned.

We are all busy, but we also all have the same 168 hours in a week.  My formula states that you have to subtract the average hours you sleep in one week and the average hours you exercise one week to determine your “golden number.”

This golden number represents the remaining waking hours of the week during which you can chose to move as much as possible and turn everyday into an athletic event, or sit around and create what science calls, lazy biology.