Trying To Get Back Into Shape?

If you have taken a time-out from your fitness program it's tricky to get motivated to get into your training regimen all over again. What you will need to do is stick to some realistic attainable "written"goals to help push you.

The reason I say "written" is simply because if you don't jot your resolutions in a notebook your resolutions are only fantasies. Studies have verified over and over that writing your goals on paper is very powerful.

Let us look at a few examples. If you intend to get back into jogging, walk as much as possible to begin with. Depending on your level of work out you could only begin with fifteen or twenty minutes. If you have some level of fitness start with a half hour and steadily increase it.

Once you have been walking briskly for a few weeks you can ease back into running by rotating walking and jogging. Walk briskly for just ten minutes and run for five and so on. As you increase your level of fitness and your soreness subsides you should increase the running until you are running again for atleast 30 minutes once again.

If you have been involved in weight training in the past and have taken a layoff of more than a couple of months it is necessary to take it slow as you begin to train again.

When training with weights, if you push yourself too fast too soon you may perhaps end up hurting your muscle's supporting tendons and ligaments. The answer is to not to dash in attempting to try to do the same routine that you were doing but doing less sets.

What I do after a long hiatus is to go to the health club and use the stationary bicycle for 15-2o minutes to begin with to warm my body up. After that, I will choose only one specific body part each day day to train. If you are an older individual or have a larger frame you may possibly want to stay on this type of program even following your initial break-in period.

Let's look at training the upper body for example. If I was able to bench press 300 pounds before I took a break I will start my first work out 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. Afterward I may do 3 sets of flat dumbbell flyes again with higher reps this time so as not to put too much stress on my tendons and ligaments.

Keep to these same rules for all body parts and you should increase the weights and repetitions little by little and inside a month you'll be right back to hard weight training once more and working towards your goals - reducing your body fat and learning how to get a six pack.

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