Easing Your Way Back In Fitness

Fitness has always been the top priority in your life, be it New Year resolutions, to do list or goal setting. You have managed to stick to your healthy weight by maintaining your exercise regime.

All of a sudden you have put on some unwanted pounds as you haven’t been able to stick to your exercise. Don’t push yourself so hard, since you have maintained a healthy lifestyle, it wont be difficult for you to easing your way into fitness and maintaining a healthy lifestyle again.

Research reveals that if you have been out of exercise for instance for about 3 weeks you would take same time to get back into form.

All you need to do is to follow the rule of 50-50. Which means you should maintain 50% of the intensity you had before leaving exercise and put in at least 50% of the time. So if you use to spin for an hour at a speed of 10, start cycling for 30 minutes at the speed of 5, slowly building the intensity.

If you have been off exercise for a longer time, you should start with what you are comfortable doing, start with a 20 minutes of brisk walk 4 times a week. As you move ahead stick to the thumb rule of increasing not beyond 10% immediately in terms of intensity, weight, or time.

Don’t push yourself too hard as you might injure your back, neck, muscles or cause some more grave joint injury. Straining yourself can also cause overload of tissues, surplus pressure on untrained body part.

The loss of exercise has unknowingly helped you detain yourself, your flexibility has decreased. You have become tighter and weaker, hence you are bond to get hurt.

Besides this, research proves that you will not be able to burn all your that you have loaded yourself up in the close walls of the gym. So give your body some time and results are bond to show.

One cardio or aerobic session will be immensely beneficial to your body; all you need to do is be dedicated and stick to your exercise plan. A single exercise session can drastically improve the sensitivity of insulin in your body, this can become a worry for those who have type 2 diabetes; this lasts for upto 2 days. One session of exercise improves your blood pressure and is good for your heart’s condition.

So when you take your first step towards exercising, make it a long term commitment and don’t make short term goals. Don’t punish yourself if your intensity isn’t as high as it was initially, remember slow and steady wins at the end.