Would You Like To Get Back In The Shape You Were In?
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010If you have taken a hiatus from your exercise schedule it is difficult to get motivated to get into your workout routine again. What you will need to do is make some reasonable achievable “written”goals to help push you along.
The main reason I say “written” is simply because if you don’t jot your resolutions down your resolutions are only fantasies. Studies have established over and over again that writing your goals down on paper is very powerful.
Let’s look at several sample scenarios. If you would like to get back into jogging, walk as much as possible to begin with. Depending on your intensity of work out you could only start with only fifteen or twenty minutes. If you have a certain level of fitness start with a half hour and progressively intensify it.
Once you have been walking briskly for a couple of weeks you can ease back into jogging by rotating walking and jogging. Walk briskly for just ten minutes and run for five and so on. As you become stronger and your soreness goes away increase the jogging until you are running again for atleast 30 minutes once again.
If you have experience with weight training in the past and have taken a break of more than a few months you really need to take it slow coming back.
When you are weight training, if you push too fast too soon you may possibly end up hurting your muscle’s supporting tendons and ligaments. The main thing is to not to dash in trying to try to do the same routine that you were doing but doing less sets.
What I do once I’ve had a lengthy layoff is to head to the fitness center and work out on the motionless bike for 15-2o minutes initially for a warm-up. Then, I can decide on only a single body part each day day to train. If you are an elderly person or you have a bigger frame you may perhaps want to remain on this kind of program even following your initial break-in period.
Let us take a look at working 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 repetitions of about 15-20 times each. Fine-tune your weights to match your preferences. Then I will do 3 sets of flat dumbbell flyes again with more reps this time so that you don’t place too much stress on my tendons and ligaments.
Keep to these same guidelines for all body parts and increase the weights and reps little by little and within a month you will be right back to intense weight training once more and moving towards your goals.