Ways To Stick To Your Fitness Workouts

By Marc Jones


The gym, a place of titanic struggles, classic distances, blood, sweat and occasionally tears! It's a place you go to improve yourself. As a trainer I put 100 percent effort into my workouts and expect the same from my clients.

Did you know that a great sixty percent of adults in the US are overweight? That worries me, seriously, how could things have got this bad. The junk food craze seems to have taken over. Folks more often than not will go for speed and convenience over planning and preparation.

With that in mind, the people who do attend the gym and make the attempts to reduce this figure or at least not let it become worse. Wretchedly though it does take rather more than simply turning up to the gymnasium to really get a hold of your fitness and health and improve it.

I am completely aware that my readers are incentivized, educated and active people. So our exercise programs will be pretty extreme, concerning large weights, long distances and fast movements. At the end of the session we are often the ones on our knees in a pool of sweat!! Does it irritate you when you look up and see 1/2 the people in there looking fresh as a daisy and having a chat! Much of the time these kind of people would possibly not be in the best of shapes.

You see it's not about simply going to the gymnasium or going for a run, it is what you do while you train. Many folks don't have the information on how to train properly, this is not their fault if they have not been shown. So in this week's post I would like to share with you 5 ways to lift your workouts, turning some of your gym sessions from a stroll through the park to a relentless physical and mental battle.

1] Don't be uninteresting in the warm up - Try to avoid an easy 5-10 minutes on a cardio machine followed by some lacklustre stretching. Use the cardiovascular machines to really boost your heart rate and ready yourself for some exercise. Do some mobility exercises and some dynamic stretching. Mimic the movements you will be doing in the session with your stretches. Also try a few warm up sets using lighter weights to tune up your methodology and get the muscles ready for the movements.

2] Take a day off - It may seem strange that one tip in 'ways to power up your workout ' is to take a day off, but it's important. As you train you put your muscles thru a little bit of a extreme time, they pick up tears which must be fixed. Rest and good nutrition ( protein ) helps to recover the muscles the most efficiently and help them to return stronger. This is basically how we improve, we test our muscles to the limit, permit the muscles time to recover, then we are going again.

If we don't permit our muscles enough time to recover then we are not coaching to our actual potential and we increase our chance of picking up an injury. Folks combat this by training different muscle groups on separate days. If you do not want to rest just go out for a nice walk / jog / cycle or go for a swim.

3] Progression - Do you do the same workout all the time? It's critical in order to improve and to keep a healthy interest in exercise that things are mixed up a bit. When bench pressing sixty kilograms 10 times begins to get easy it's not the time to pat yourself on the back, it is time to up it to sixty-two / 64 / 65kg and try again. It actually is all about progression , your muscles need to continually be acclimatising to new things and then pushed again. This is how we build and get better.

4] Go Intense - By adding some high-intensity interval coaching ( HIIT ) to your exercise sessions you can actually raise your cardio fitness. Varying high speeds with low speeds over a short time period will really test your fitness level and help to boost your VO2 max. This also means that you can get a full cardio workout in 1/2 the time of your usual same paced run / cycle, and push yourself far more.

5] Go for massive movements - Machines in gymnasiums are excellent for isolating muscle groups and give an excellent start to beginners learning to use weights. When you want to truly test yourself then free weights will be better. Free weights training incorporate many different muscles into the exercise by forcing them to work unflaggingly to stabilize the muscles around the joint to hold the weight up.

The best sorts of exercise are the ones which work the most muscles. If you compare a concentration bicep curl with a clean which one do you think will involve more muscles? Yes clearly the clean, it has several phases and will work your lower body and chest and shoulders.

If you haven't got weights then exercises such as burpees or certain variances of press ups are good exercising concerning the enormous muscle groupings. These routines will tire you out a lot more than your isolation exercises so it can be best to do them early on in your session while your muscles are fresh. [AJSCRB].




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