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Keep your Six Pack this Christmas

The holiday period is right around the corner. The turkey feasts will be eaten, the beers will be flowing, family and friends will be visiting. This will go on weekend after weekend from now, right up until January 2nd.

There is no better way to celebrate the holidays than to spend time with family and friends, either at the dinner table or having a few beers and watching some sports.

This is pretty much what we will all be doing over the coming weeks. There will be plenty of food, plenty of drinks, and plenty of relaxation. What does this mean to the fitness enthusiast?

Well for starters, we are all getting in far more calories than we normally do during our regular day to day lives. Also, the source of the calories are nowhere near as nutritious as what we would be used to; high fat intake, high carbohydrate intake, and our fair share of alcohol.

The regularity of our meal times becomes inconsistent; we miss workouts and nurse hangovers, all part in parcel of the annual holiday period.

Burning Extra Calories
 
This may not need to be the case for die hard fitness enthusiasts and bodybuilders. You can still enjoy all the festivities and maintain a healthy lifestyle, keep our weight under control, and get in our daily workouts. Try getting out in the fresh air, hitting the park and playing some ball with your family.

This is, as the saying goes, killing two birds with one stone. Spending quality time with family and friends and getting in a great cardiovascular workout. Football is essentially an interval training session made up of sprints, jogging, and maybe even some rest periods.

Most of these family games will last no less than an hour, so everyone will be burning some serious calories.

Staying Focused
 

It is also important to note that the big traditional dinner is no more than two days throughout the whole festive season; Christmas And Boxing Day. The rest of the time we all still have to go to work and we all still have to live our normal lives.

This gives us the added advantage of still making the gym from Monday to Friday and getting in our regular weights and cardio sessions. But on the weekend it is a different story and this is where most people fall by the way side.

There are work parties, friends' parties, and/or family parties almost every weekend and what goes on here usually dictates what happens for the rest of the week. Drink too much and you will have a hangover that will last until Monday or even Tuesday, which in turn throws a spanner in the works with regard to your training schedule.

This is where workouts are missed. The usual case is, you miss your first one or two sessions in the gym and before you realize it the week is over and you have not gotten in a single workout. This is a really common trait amongst gym goers, and can last the whole holiday period without even getting into the gym once.