EXERCISE TIPS TO GET FIT FOR LIFE

EXERCISE TIPS TO GET FIT FOR LIFE

Our excuses are many for not being able to find time to get fit. We are too busy, there is no time in the day for a trip to the gym, and we have children and careers and husbands that demand our time. Truth is we can find thirty minutes of time in our busy lives to do thirty minutes of intense exercises every day if fitness and staying healthy are important to us.

Once you make the commitment to exercise you will be amazed at how much you can accomplish in such a short time span. The key is to exercise every day just the way you schedule every other appointment. Do this for yourself and your health and the benefits will affect every part of your life.

It doesn't even matter what type of exercise you do as long as you are active. For the best benefit from the fitness program combine both aerobic exercises with resistance training. Make sure you have water to hydrate yourself and an exercise mat if you need one and some type of weights or other equipment for resistance work. If you don't have any weight training equipment don't let that stop you – get some cans from your pantry and they will work fine.

You can use exercise videos or exercise programs on TV or you can create your own fitness exercises or you can just put on some music and dance. It all works to help you reach your fitness goals and get fit now. You want to stay interested so try combining dancing, or walking or swimming, or skating or biking and then alternate with a resistance program where you up the weights in increments.

No matter what type of exercise you decide to do it is always best to start with a stretching workout. Too many women leave this out of their fitness program and an injury will be the result. Your muscles need to warm up gradually to effectively and safely move on to an aerobic workout.

Your resistance training workout should include exercises that work your core muscles and both your upper and lower body. Simple arm curls with weights or shoulder presses, squats, sit ups are examples of basic resistance training exercises that work. The routines don't have to be difficult; it is the number of repetitions that make the difference in your body. Thirty minutes a day and you will see the difference in your abdomen and that place under the arms we all hate.

Try to do the resistance training fitness exercises at least three times per week in alteration with your aerobic exercise. After doing weight training your muscles need a day to repair themselves so that is why you do aerobic exercises the next day after working out with weights. If you don't let the muscles recuperate they will not build muscle but just constantly be repairing tissue damage.

You can also get your family in on the exercise with family biking or hiking times. A friend or neighbor might love to walk with you and walking together might just be the motivation you both need to keep it going. Spend thirty minutes a day on fitness exercises and you will be both mentally and physically healthier, more alert, and ready to take on what life has in store for you.