Are You Trying To Get In Shape Again?

If you have taken a layoff from your fitness plan it is tough to get motivated to get into your workout routine again. What you have to do is set some reasonable achievable "written"goals to help motivate you.

The main reason I have emphasized “written” is simply because if you don’t write your resolutions down they are simply dreams. Studies have demonstrated over and over that writing your goals down is very powerful.

Let us look at some sample situations. If you want to get back into jogging, start to walk first. Depending on your level of work out you may only start with only fifteen or twenty minutes. If you already have some level of fitness begin with a half hour and step by step intensify it.

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

If you have experience with weight training in the past and have taken a layoff 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 to do too much initially you may perhaps end up hurting your muscle's supporting tendons and ligaments. The answer is definitely not to hurry in attempting to use the same weights you were using and do less sets.

What I try once I've had a long time-out is to go to the fitness center and exercise on the motionless bicycle for 15-2o minutes to start with for a warm-up. Next, I will choose only a single body part every day to exercise. If you are an older individual or you have a larger frame you might want to remain on this type of program even after your initial break-in period.

Let us take a look at working the chest for instance. If I was able to bench press 300 pounds before I took a break I will begin my first work out with 135 pounds and do 3 or 4 sets of high reps in the 15-20 range. Adjust your weights accordingly. Next I may do 3 sets of flat dumbbell flyes yet again with higher reps this time so that you don't put too much strain on my tendons and ligaments.

Go by these same strategies for all body parts and increase the weights and repetitions little by little and within a month you'll be right back to hard weight training again and working towards your goals.