Online fitness coaching for people in Concord

Activity and sleep in Concord

Age-adjusted, an estimated 21.9% of adults in Concord report no leisure-time physical activity (a modeled estimate, 95% CI 18.0 to 25.8). An estimated 35.0% usually sleep less than 7 hours in a 24-hour period (same kind of estimate, 95% CI 28.7 to 41.7).

Daily life in Concord, by the numbers

From the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, published value and margin of error together: about 17.4% of workers who live here work from home (90% margin of error plus or minus 1.8); commuters average 26.9 minutes to work (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.9); the median age is 36.5 years (90% margin of error plus or minus 1.2); 94.0% of households have a broadband subscription (90% margin of error plus or minus 1.2).

Training through the Concord heat

At the CONCORD station (USC00311975, 5.2 km from the Census internal point), the 1991–2020 normal July high is 91.8 F, with 60.6 days a year at or above 90 F on average, an average January low of 28.9 F, and 47.87 inches of rain a year.

How coaching works from a distance

Diogo is based in South Florida and coaches online. Your workouts live in the Trainerize app, you weigh in twice a week, you send progress photos every two weeks, and we talk on a weekly call — for Concord that is Eastern time, the same as me, so the call can go anywhere in your evening. Between calls, you can message me with questions.

If I drive into Charlotte every day, where does training go?

To the ends of the day you control, not the middle you don’t. With a commute under half an hour and fewer than one in five workers in Concord working from home, the drive sets most weekdays, so the plan picks one end and keeps it: a session before you leave, or a gym stop on the way home before the couch gets a vote. Weekends carry the longest session. On weeks when work swallows the evenings, a twenty-minute home session holds the place. If you do get home days, the harder session moves there, and the weekly call rearranges it all when your schedule shifts.

How does the plan deal with the heat and the rain?

By deciding the backup before it is needed. With a little over sixty days a year at or above 90 F and a lot of rain, the outdoor session is the one most likely to disappear, so every outdoor piece of the plan has an indoor twin written next to it: a rainy evening walk becomes stairs and step-ups at home, a hot afternoon run becomes an early one or a bike. Lifting is indoors all year and never depends on the forecast. Outside the hot months, outdoor work can go wherever your week has room for it. The plan B is part of the plan.

Next steps

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• The best time to work out
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