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If you have taken a hiatus from your fitness program it's challenging to get inspired to get into your training routine again. What you need to do is make some practical achievable "written"goals to help push you along.
The main reason I say "written" is simply because if you don't jot your goals in a notebook your resolutions are just dreams. Studies have verified over and over again that writing your goals down in a notebook is powerful.
Let us look at a few sample situations. If you would like to get back into running, walk as much as possible to start with. Depending on your level of work out you can only start with only fifteen or twenty minutes. If you have some level of exercise begin with a half hour and gradually intensify it.
Once you have been walking for a couple of weeks you can ease back into running by alternating walking and jogging. Walk briskly for just ten minutes and run for five minutes and so on. As your fitness level increases and your discomfort decreases increase the jogging until you jogging once again for a minimum of 30 minutes without stopping.
If you have experience with weight training in the past and have taken a hiatus of more than a couple of months it would be a good idea to slowly ease back into it.
When you are weight training, if you push too fast too soon you may possibly wind up hurting your muscle's supporting tendons and ligaments. The key is to not to hurry in trying to try to do the same routine that you were doing but doing less sets.
What I do following a lengthy hiatus is to head to the gym and work out on the stationary bike for 15-2o minutes to begin with to warm my body up. After that, I may decide on only a single body part every day to work out. If you are an older individual or have a large frame you may perhaps want to stay on this kind 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 training session with 135 pounds and do 3 or 4 sets of high reps in the 15-20 range. Fine-tune your weights to match your preferences. After that I will do 3 sets of flat dumbbell flyes yet again with higher reps so that you don't put too much strain on my tendons and ligaments.
Follow these same strategies for all body parts and you should increase the weights and reps little by little and within a month you will be right back to intense 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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