Do You Want To Get In Shape?

If you have taken a break from your fitness program it’s challenging to get motivated to start back into your workout routine again. What you need to do is make some practical attainable “written”resolutions to help motivate you.

The main reason I have emphasized “written” is simply because if you do not write your resolutions on paper your goals are only fantasies. Studies have confirmed over and over again that writing your goals in a notebook is powerful.

Let’s look at several examples. If you would like to get back into jogging, start to walk to start with. Depending on your degree of fitness you could only begin with only fifteen or twenty minutes. If you have some level of exercise start with 30 minutes and in stages intensify it.

Once you have been walking briskly for a few weeks ease back into running by rotating walking and jogging. Walk for just ten minutes and run for five minutes and so on. As you increase your level of fitness and your discomfort decreases increase the running until you get back to running for thirty to forty five minutes at a time.

If you have done weight training in the past and have taken a break of more than a couple of months it would be a good idea to slowly ease back into it.

When you are lifting weights, if you push yourself too fast too soon you can wind up damaging supporting tendons and ligaments. The main thing is definitely not to rush in trying to try to do the same routine that you were doing but doing less sets.

What I do after a long time-out is to head to the gym and use the motionless bike for 15-2o minutes to start with for a warm-up. After that, I will choose only one specific body part each day day to train. If you are an elderly individual or have a bigger frame you might want to remain on this kind of program even after your initial break-in period.

Let’s look at training the upper body for example. If I was able to bench press 300 pounds before I took a break I will begin my first training session with 135 pounds and do 3 or 4 sets of high reps in the 15-20 range. Fine-tune your weights to match your preferences. Afterward I can do 3 sets of flat dumbbell flyes another time with more reps so that you don’t place too much stress on my tendons and ligaments.

Keep to these same strategies for all body parts and you should increase the weights and repetitions little by little and within a month you will be right back to heavy weight training once more and working towards your goals.

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