Are You Trying To Get Back In Shape?

If you have taken a hiatus from your fitness program it's tough to get inspired to start back into your training routine again. What you will need to do is make some practical achievable "written"goals to help push you.

The main reason I have emphasized "written" is simply because if you don't jot your goals in a notebook your resolutions are merely wishes. Studies have verified over and over that writing your goals on paper is powerful.

Let us look at a few sample situations. If you want to get back into running, start to walk first. Depending on your level of usual fitness you can only begin with only fifteen or twenty minutes. If you have some level of exercise start with a half hour and slowly intensify it.

Once you have been walking for a few weeks you can ease back into running by alternating walking and jogging. Walk for just ten minutes and run for five minutes and so on. As you become stronger and your discomfort lessens increase the jogging 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 time-out of more than a couple of months it would be a good idea to slowly ease back into it.

When you are weight training, if you push too hard too early you may possibly end up hurting your muscle's supporting tendons and ligaments. The trick is definitely not to hurry in attempting to try to do the same routine that you were doing but doing less sets.

What I do after an extended layoff is to go to the gym and use the stationary bicycle for 15-2o minutes to begin with to warm my body up. Next, I can choose only a single body part each day day to work out. If you are an elderly individual or have a larger frame you may perhaps want to continue this kind of program even following your initial break-in period.

Let's take a look at training the chest 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. After that I will do 3 sets of flat dumbbell flyes yet again with higher reps so that you don't place too much pressure on my tendons and ligaments.

Stick to these same rules 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 training once more and working towards your goals - reducing your body fat and learning how to get a six pack.

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