Sunday, February 3, 2013

Ways To Stick To Your Fitness Workouts

By Marc Jones


The gymnasium, a place of titanic struggles, epic distances, blood, sweat and occasionally tears! It is a place you go to boost yourself. As a trainer I put 100% effort into my exercise programs and expect the same from my clients.

Are you aware that a great sixty percent of adults in the United States are overweight? That troubles me, seriously, how could things have got this bad. The fast food craze appears to have taken over. Folk more times than not will go for speed and convenience over planning and preparation.

With that in mind, the folks that do attend the gym and make the attempts to reduce this figure or at a minimum not let it get worse. Unhappily though it does take a bit more than just turning up to the gym to actually get a hold of your fitness and health and improve it.

I'm well aware that my readers are incentivized, educated and active folks. So our exercise programmes will be pretty intense, 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 provoke you when you look up and see 1/2 the folk in there looking fresh as a daisy and having a chat! Much of the time these sort of people won't be in the best of shapes.

You see it's not about simply going to the gym or going for a run, it's what you do while you train. Many people do not have the information on the best way to train correctly, this is not their fault if they have not been shown. So in this week's post I wish to share with you five ways to raise your workouts, turning some of your gym sessions from a walk in the park to a constant physical and psychological battle.

1] Do not be dull in the warm-up. The warmup - Try avoiding an easy 5-10 minutes on a cardiovascular machine followed by some lacklustre stretching. Use the cardio machines to really boost your pulse rate and steel yourself for some exercise. Do some mobility exercises and some dynamic stretching. Mimic the movements you'll be doing in the session with your stretches. Also try a few warm up sets using lighter weights to fine tune your methodology and get the muscles prepared for the movements.

2] Take a day off - It may appear strange that one tip in 'ways to power up your workout ' is to take a day off, but it is important. As you train you put your muscles through a extreme time, they pick up tears which need to be repaired. Rest and good nutrition ( protein ) helps to recover the muscles the most efficiently and help them to return stronger. This is how we improve, we test our muscles to the edge, allow the muscles time to recover, then we are going again.

If we do not permit our muscles sufficient time to recover then we are not coaching to our full potential and we increase our prospect of picking up an injury. People combat this by coaching different muscle groupings on separate days. If you don't would like 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 is vital so as to improve and to keep a healthy interest in exercise that things are mixed up a bit. When bench pressing sixty kilos 10 times starts to get easy it isn't 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 adjusting 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 workouts you can actually raise your heart fitness. Varying high speeds with low speeds over a short period of time will actually test your level of fitness and help to raise your VO2 max. This also means that you can get a full cardiovascular workout in half the time of your regular same paced run / cycle, and push yourself far more.

5] Go for massive movements - Machines in gyms are excellent for isolating muscle groupings and give a great start to beginners learning how to use weights. When you need to truly test yourself then free weights will be better. Free weights coaching incorporate many alternative muscles into the exercise by making them work industriously to stabilize the muscles round the joint to hold the weight up.

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

If you don't have weights then exercises like burpees or certain variances of press ups are good exercising concerning the enormous muscles. 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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