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The Plan & Fitness 12 Aug 2007 05:45 am

If you are a busy person and you do not have much time to go the gym and stay there for 1-2 hours, then it is not a problem. You can workout in your own home anytime you want.

Some people put in their money to costly exercise equipments like treadmills, stair climbers, cycles and a lot more. Naturally, eagerness is very high only in the beginning. You will start putting your expensive equipments in the storage room or in the garage when your eagerness declines. There are instances when some people use just one exercise machine at home, so the tendency is the exerciser is not receiving the complete health benefits that he or she can get from exercising. According to some studies, if you want to do a correct and balance fitness program that will tone your muscles, burn fat and will help you prevent from different diseases, you should do stretching, weight training and cardiovascular exercise.

You might be thinking how it is possible to have a home gym environment. There are a lot of things you can do so that the enthusiasm you have won’t fade away. All the negatives can become positive when you start making a good home fitness place. Variety is the secret for you to enjoy the fitness place in your house.

You should know first different ways on how to get fit: Free weights, walking, jogging, running, bicycle workout and a lot more. Then you can already start from this.

You can still do cardiovascular exercise without buying expensive treadmills and stationary bikes. If you have a pool at home, swimming is a great cardiovascular exercise. You can also follow an exercise video at home. If you don’t have free and big space in your house, you can easily go out of your village and start walking or jogging for a couple of minutes.
For your strength exercises, you can always choose free weights. There are a lot of dumbbells, wrist and ankle weights available in the market. You can also use jump ropes, resistance bands and exercise videos. Exercising with mirror and music will help you maintain your shape and enjoy what you are doing.

Variety is the key for you to keep your interest with working out at home. You don’t have to spend so much money. You don’t need to have huge spaces and you don’t need those very luxurious gym equipments. All you need to do is to plan everything in your house so that you can already start getting fit.  And you will just suddenly realize how inexpensive it is when it comes to financial and spatial aspects.

The Plan & Fitness 03 Aug 2007 01:18 am

Speed up and you will hit the wall. The most common reason people start a diet and fitness program, but fail after few weeks is the subconscious resistance for drastic changes. Try to go from 3000 to 1400 kcal in one day and from 0 to 2 hours daily training and you will hit that depression wall. I give you 10 days, at most.

Your subconscious mind is not much different from a frog: Remember this experiment from the biology class? If you put a frog into the boiling water it will jump straight out. But if you put it into cold water and start heating up slowly, it will sit there until getting served.

Same happens to your sub-mind. You will get much less resistance, if you change your workout and nutritional habits slowly over the time. And you will have a much bigger chance to keep on with the plan over longer period of time.

 

incremental workout and diet plan

 

One step at a time, fellas. :) Good luck!