Are you thinking about starting a fitness program to improve your overall health and shed a few extra pounds? Good for you! Here are some excellent tips for getting started with your fitness program.
Starting a fitness program is the best thing you can do for your overall health and as soon as you have your Doctor's okay you can get right into all that physical activity which can help reduce chronic disease as well as improve your balance and your coordination.
Start by assessing your current fitness level. You probably have at least a rough idea of just how fit you are. You need a baseline to start with so your fitness scores can be compared for gain. You should record your pulse rate before and after you complete your mile walk, how long it takes you to walk that mile, how many pushups you did at one time, your body's mass index or BMI, and the circumference of your waist. Once you have this information recorded your fitness program is ready to go.
Next you need to design your own personal fitness program. Start by determining your fitness goals so what it is you want to accomplish - lose weight, improve your cardio function, or perhaps run a marathon. Think about what it is you like or dislike when it comes to exercise and activities. Plan to start light and then build as your ability gets better. That's the best way to avoid injury and do remember to spice it up a bit so that your workouts have lot of variety so you won't get bored.
Now you need to assemble any exercise equipment you have purchased for your fitness program. Perhaps you purchased one of those all in one machines, or maybe it was just a treadmill. At any rate you will want to get it all assembled so that you can start your workouts and be on your way to a healthier you.
Once you are ready to get started you will need to start slow and gradually be build up. Make sure your warm up is adequate so that everything becomes easy. Depending on where you are will depend on what type of exercises you incorporate into your workout and for how long you workout will be. That's what your personal fitness program is all about.
It's best to break things up if you need to. Remember shorter more frequent sessions also work very well and it is much easier to fit 10 minutes of exercise into your busy day than it is 30 minutes. That 10 minutes means 3 short and quick sessions. It's that easy to get your fitness program into your busy day.
Try to be creative with your workouts because you are much more likely to stay at it when your program is interesting and not boring. It's hard to stay enthusiastic about the same exercises in your fitness program when you have to do them day in and day out.
Make sure that you are listening to your body. Shortness of breath, dizziness, or nausea means you need to take a break from your fitness program immediately. If you have pain in an area reduce the amount of exercise for a bit to give it a change to heal.
It is very important to monitor your progress because otherwise you have no way of knowing if your fitness program is working for you. You also don't know when you should make things easier or harder.
Now that you've created your own personal fitness program you have no excuse to get busy.
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