having an effective workout program, is extremely important towards achieving your fitness goals. You can’t just have a goal and expect to achieve it. If you don’t have a clear and detailed plan.
Without it, you’re, probably wasting your time and effort here’s. What we need to know there isn’t. A one plan fits all solution. That’s because we’re all different, so creating an exercise program varies based on your age goal, fitness level, lifestyle and more even with tons of workout videos out there.
You still need to have the knowledge of knowing why you’re doing this workout rather than just blindly following it. So what i’ll, be sharing with you today are the foundations to start a simple, yet effective, workout program.
It might sound daunting, but once you know the basics and build from there, it isn’t difficult. In fact, it is a lot of fun. I’m, going to try to keep it really simple and break it down into five steps.
Consistency is the number one factor that will get you results. You have to train frequently across a long period of time, so let’s, get it right from the beginning. This is a long-term commitment that needs discipline there’s, no shortcuts.
In getting the results you want, hence the first step is to assess your lifestyle and create a personalized program that will be consistent for you ask yourself these questions. How many days in a week can i dedicate to exercising? How long can each workout session be? What time of the day suits my schedule grab a pen and paper and write it down.
For instance, i like to work out five days in a week and have two rest days. My workout days will be monday, tuesday, thursday, friday and saturday. My rest days will be wednesday and sunday for each session.
It will be an hour long and i like to get it done first thing in the morning before i start my day be specific and realistic, because we want this to be a doable plan, not something which you’ll. Give yourself excuses down the road if you can dedicate one hour every day that’s great, but if you’re tied down to work and family commitments and can only spare to 30 minutes a day that’s.
Absolutely fine, as well working out for a longer period of time, doesn’t necessarily equate to better or quicker results. Rather, it’s about how consistent and efficient your workout is in order to achieve results.
I’ve, known of so many success stories from people who can only spare 20 to 30 minutes a day doing the fear workouts, but because they were consistent, they saw results. Another common question i get asked often is: when is the best time to workout? The simple answer is there is no such thing as the best time to workout.
The best time is when it’s, most convenient for you and fits your schedule. That way, you’re more likely to stick to your routine instead of having reasons not to train. So if morning is best for you then stick to the morning if evening works better, then keep your workout to the evening.
Once you have figured out your training schedule, make a commitment to yourself and complete the training, no matter what know that consistency is the most important thing in creating a successful program.
Next part to figure out is what workouts should i do? There are so many workout videos out there, but you have no idea where, to start and what to do for beginners. It’s, important to know that you have to perform total body workouts, focusing on all major muscles in order to burn fat and increase lean muscle mass.
I’ve said this too many times, but allow me to say it once more: we cannot spot reduce fat. Typically, there are two types of training, strength, training or cardio. Of course, there are also workouts which combines both such as hit interval and circuit type training.
These types of trainings are the most efficient way to burn fat and to tone up in a short period of time. Let’s. Look at the difference between strength versus cardio, strength, training or weight. Lifting are exercises aimed at improving your strength and to build lean muscles strength.
Training is important because the more lean muscles you have, the higher your metabolic rate will be. That means your body will be burning fat more efficiently, even when you’re at rest. Here are some examples.
Cardio or aerobics are exercises that are intense enough to increase your breathing and heart rate at a continuous and consistent pace. Cardio exercises are important to build stamina, to burn calories and excess fat from the body.
Here are some examples which, should you be focusing on that really depends on your goal. If your goal is to lose weight, then you need a combination of both cardio and strength. Training, if your goal is to gain weight, then you need to incorporate a lot more strength, training into your program and only perform cardio.
Occasionally so let’s say my goal is to lose weight and add more muscle tone based on my workout days. I’ll split it into 2 days of strength, training, 2 days of heat, conditioning workouts and 1 day of low intensity or steady pace.
Cardio, for example, monday can be lower body strength. Training tuesday will be total body heat and conditioning workout thursday upper body strength, training, friday, total body heat and conditioning workout and saturday can be bar yoga.
Pilates brisk walking, swimming or hiking go onto my channel and check out my workout playlist for different types of workouts. The third factor is to figure out your workout volume, how many reps and sets to do, how heavy to lift and how long to rest in between exercises these are mainly for strength training.
I’ve received quite a number of questions asking if 2 kilos is enough or if 5 kilos is enough. I can’t give you a straight answer, because it comes down to your own strength and goals. Let’s. Get to the basics of understanding sets and reps sets refer to repeating the same exercise, a certain number of rounds, for instance, performing 10 squats in one set, and you may want to repeat it for another.
Two more sets with rest in between sets for absolute beginners. I would suggest that you start with two sets and, as you progress increase to three or four sets per exercise, repetitions or reps refers to the number of times you perform an exercise during a set.
So, for instance, it can be 10 reps of squats. How many reps, should you perform varies depending on your goal and fitness level, to give you a training, baseline 12 to 20, reps or more is primarily to build muscular endurance and size.
Endurance means to train your muscles to perform a certain move for an extended period of time. Doing high reps means you’ll, be lifting lighter loads and because we want to improve endurance. That means shorter rest between sets 30 to 60 seconds 6 to 12.
Reps is hypertrophy. Training hypertrophy is an increase in growth of muscle cells achieved through weight. Lifting this training is for all of you who want to tone up and improve muscle definition, because you’re lifting heavier with lower reps.
The rest time between sets will be about 60 to 90 seconds. Less than six reps is to build super, dense muscle, strength and power, because the wraps are lower. That means you’re, going to be lifting a lot heavier weights.
Focusing all your effort into those few reps. You’ll also need longer to recover, and the rest time between sets is about 3 to 5 minutes long. Hence, depending on your training goal, you will need to adjust the weight accordingly.
For example, if you’re training for hypertrophy and you can perform up to 20 reps, then the weights are too light. You have to increase the load. You also have to adjust the weight. According to the body parts, you’re training.
Your leg muscles are a lot bigger. Hence you can lift a lot heavier compared to your shoulder muscles. You can’t just stick to one weight and perform the entire body, and remember proper form is extremely important.
In order for you to engage the right muscles and to avoid injuries, every rep should be a quality rep. Now that you have a solid workout program and you’re consistent with it, the next important factor is progression to keep improving and seeing results.
Your workouts need to get harder over time. You can’t just stick to a beginner workout, which you have been doing for the past two months and wonder. Why am i not seeing results if you fail to progress in your training that’s when you’ll hit a plateau saying that, however, do not make things harder too quickly? I do understand that some of us can get really impatient and want to lift heavier within the next few sessions.
It takes time to build strength and endurance progress. Slowly and gradually this way you will still create change, but without the risk of injuries which may cause you to miss even more training days.
As a rule of thumb, you want to train for four to six weeks at any given level of difficulty before adding more challenge to your training. Training progression can be increasing the work load. That means lifting heavier weights or increasing your running speed, increasing workout volume, whether it’s, more reps sets or intervals increasing the workout time reducing rest time or introducing tougher moves there’s.
No one straight answer to how you can progress in your workout, but the longer you train and understand your body. You will start to make adjustments to your training in order to challenge yourself and to also keep things fun fresh and not so monotonous.
That way, you will look forward to your training sessions. We often take this for granted, but keeping track of your workout sessions are extremely important. It’s. The only way where you can look back review each session track your progress and even celebrate your successes along the way have a fitness journal and keep track of every single workout.
Your record should be both objective and subjective record. The exercises weights sets reps workout duration and rest time record how your body feels recovery level and mental state having these records will allow you to see what works, what’s, not working so that over time you can create a training program that’s effective and efficient for you, it really does take time to figure out your own body.
You can’t just create a training program and know that this will work immediately. You need to consistently adapt and make changes along the way. Besides that, having a record is also a great way to keep you accountable to your goals, for instance, you’ll know if you manage to fit in five days of workout as planned.
This information is key to show you results and to keep you going now that you know the foundation of building a solid workout program. I want you to put this into action and try it out for yourself to get you through your fitness journey.
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Let’s also not forget that nutrition and diet is still 80 percent of the results to see permanent changes. It is a combination of having an effective training program eating a well-balanced diet that fits in with your goal and getting enough rest daily.
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