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If you have taken a break from your usual fitness schedule it is tricky to get motivated to start back into your workout routine once more. What you will need to do is set some realistic achievable “written”goals to help motivate you.

The reason I have emphasized “written” is simply because if you do not write your goals in a notebook your resolutions are merely dreams. Studies have proven over and over that writing your goals on paper is very powerful.

Let us take a look at some sample situations. If you want to get back into jogging, start to walk to start with. Depending on your intensity of exercise you could only start with only fifteen or twenty minutes. If you have a certain level of fitness begin with a half hour and gradually intensify it.

Once you have been walking for a few weeks you can ease back into jogging by rotating walking and running. Walk for just ten minutes and jog for five minutes and so on. As your fitness level increases and your discomfort decreases you should increase the jogging until you jogging once again for a minimum of 30 minutes without stopping.

If you have done weight training in the past and have taken a time-out of more than a couple of months it is necessary to take it slow as you begin to train again.

With weight training, if you push yourself too fast too soon you may possibly wind up hurting your muscle’s supporting tendons and ligaments. The trick is definitely not to hurry in trying to use the same weights you were using and do less sets.

What I do following a long break is to go to the fitness center and ride the stationary bike for 15-2o minutes in the beginning for a warm-up. Subsequently, I will choose only one specific body part each day day to work out. If you are an elderly individual or you have a large frame you may want to continue this type of exercise program even following your initial break-in period.

Let us look at training the upper body for instance. If I were bench pressing 300 pounds prior to my layoff I will begin my first work out with 135 pounds and do 3 or 4 sets of repetitions of about 15-20 times each. Adjust your weights accordingly. After that I can do 3 sets of flat dumbbell flyes another time with more reps this time so as not to place too much stress on my tendons and ligaments.

Adhere to these same rules for all body parts and increase the weights and reps gradually and inside a month you’ll be right back to intense weight training once more and working towards your resolutions.