Friday, April 20, 2012

Daily Exercise Workout, How to Maximize It

You're going for a daily exercise workout routine?

Daily instead of 3-4 or 4-5 times per week?

Exercise

Note: We shall refer the 3-4 or 4-5 times per week of exercise routine as the regular routine

"What? The regular procedure is already a "tall" order for me to get by ....The daily routine? Forget it! " You wail.

By the way, you aren't alone in this. There are lots of them like you who find it hard to exercise regularly.

Well, what I'm suggesting here is that if you can't seem to stay put in your current workouts with the regular routine either because you don't see results; push yourself too hard; get complacent after you've achieved your goals or you're simply impatient, then hitting it might solve your daily woes ...

How does this work?

Enactually boils down to the fact that this habit of a regular routine, you try to install is not conditioned deep enough to cause you to switch your behavior to be on "autopilot" mood. You need stronger reinforcement.

What if you exercise daily? Well, your mind would have patterned this behavior and because you do it everyday, you repeatedly condition this pattern until you become fully automatic. In this way, you find it easier to stick to the exercise habit.

So, if you find it tough to form the habit of doing regular exercise, why not try exercising daily instead? It could work for you-you could actually stick to this daily exercise habit.

One thing is that if you opt for the daily workout routine, you only need to do a 30-minute session of exercise (instead of the60-minute session if you were to workout regularly per week), to meet the exercise threshold of say 3-3.5 hours per week.

I want to say that if you seldom exercise or haven't been exercising at all, switching to a daily routine could be tough for you in the beginning.

The best way is don't try to do everything at once and to switch over to it gradually.

Here are 3 ways to help you out:

Reduce your exercise time from a 60-minute session to a 30-minute session and build this into your life Start on an easier peace and progress up gradually. Try to balance things up-not too easy that you feel that you aren't getting the results or too hard that you give up out of frustration "Find the right challenge level. Please don't go for inclines or hills if youhaven't been on the treadmill before or you haven't been exercising on it for a long time. Go flat first and once you've built up your strength, then only go for the more challenging levels

To get all round training for your muscles in terms of cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and definition, you could apportion and spread your exercises over the weekend like this:

Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays-30 minutes cardio exercise Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays-20-30 minutes weight training

Then on the following week, you just switch your cardio to Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays; weight training to Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

The idea is that you exercise the different muscle groups, not doing one, two or three particular musclesconsecutively without giving them rest.

Your muscles need rest in between to recover from the stress of exercise, to repair and rebuild the tissue.

Daily Exercise Workout, How to Maximize It

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