EXERCISE

5 Great Tips On Exercise

Have exercise misconceptions prevented you from starting an exercise program? Clear up any confusion and let these exercise tips improve your workout routine. Hopefully none of these common exercise myths, mistakes and misconceptions have prevented you from working out.

1. Failure to set goals.

Do you exercise without a clear goal in mind? Having a clear goal set is a critical step in exercise and weight loss success. Tracking your progress in a journal or mobile app will help ensure you see your improvements, will help motivate you and help you meet your ultimate goal.

2. No Pain, No Gain.

Pain is your body’s way of letting you know something is wrong. Do not ignore this. When you go beyond exercise and testing yourself, you will encounter physical discomfort and need to overcome it. An example of this would be training for a marathon. It is important that you have a basic level of fitness before getting into the advance training. The base training develops the body and gets it ready for extensive training. You need to learn to read your body. Exercise is important. Do it correctly and you can do it for the rest of your life.

It is normal for you to hurt after you exercise, but it must be done gradually with a good amount of rest periods to allow proper healing. If you wake up the next morning after you exercised and can barely drag your aching body out of bed because everything hurts, you are going to be less motivated to exercise at all. Constant pain is a sure way to kill your exercise program.

3. Sacrificing Quality for Quantity.

When you are ready to increase the number of reps of a particular exercise, and strengthen the corresponding muscles, instead of forcing yourself to do a little more each time try decreasing the number of reps in a set but increase the number of sets.

4. Weight Training Makes Women Bulky.

Weight training for a woman will strengthen and tone muscle, burn fat and increase metabolism, not build body mass. Women do not produce enough testosterone to build muscle mass the way that men do.

5. Over-Emphasising Strengths.

You should start focusing on your weaknesses rather than what you are good at. This will help you balance things. For example, if your lower body is stronger than you upper body, then try to work only on this area one day a week.

Being smart about how you exercise will take you a long way. It is important to have a healthy body so get out there and start exercising today.