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10 tips for getting fit
- Eat a well balanced diet that contains all of the essential food groups i.e. proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals, fibre and fluids. By eating healthily you will lay down a firm basis for long term fitness.
- Find a number of activities that you enjoying doing. These might include jogging, cycling, swimming, aerobics, trampolining or anything else which has the effect of increasing your heart rate. Alternate between the different activities so that one doesn’t become boring and you don’t lose your enthusiasm.
- Start any new activity gently because overdoing it in the first few sessions can cause muscles to become stiff and an uncomfortable feeling of fatigue. Overdoing exercise is one of the main reasons why people give up however if you take it easy until your overall fitness improves then there is no reason to give up.
- Try to exercise for at least 30 minutes three times a week. It is important that your heart rate is increased during the entire 30 minutes for you to notice the benefits however you also need to spend at least ten minutes warming up and cooling down so that you don’t damage muscles and end up with aches and pains.
- If you can, alternate between cardiovascular exercise i.e. exercise that increases your heart rate, and muscle building exercises. Total fitness is only achieved when the entire body is regularly worked out and so you need to integrate both forms of exercise into your routine. Muscle building exercises can include weight training, yoga, intensity training and even Pilates as these all help to strengthen and tone the musculature system.
- Find your motivation. This can be anything from a charity race that you want to complete to a pair of shorts that you want to look good in come the summer months. Everybody has there own reason for wanting to be fit and it is important that you keep that reason in mind, especially when you are going through a phase when you don’t particularly want to exercise and unfortunately everybody goes through these phases.
- Find an exercise buddy. It is much easier to continue exercising if you have someone to do it with. This can be a family member or a friend, either way you will be less inclined to call off a scheduled exercise session if there is someone relying on you and you won’t find your exercise sessions quite so monotonous if you have someone to talk to. Your buddy will also encourage you to keep going when you feel like you’ve had enough and you can do the same for them in return.
- Have a goal that you want to achieve. This can be something like you want to jog five kilometres without stopping or that you want to run the marathon in less than four hours. It doesn’t matter what your goal is as long as you have one that is realistic for you.
- Enjoy your exercise sessions. See your sessions as a way to get fit and healthy and as a way to look great and not as chore that you have to do. If you have to force yourself to exercise then you won’t enjoy it and you will quickly give up. If this happens consider changing your activity and try something that you haven’t done before.
- As you become fitter, push yourself a bit more each week. The feeling of doing better than you did last week is a great incentive to keep going into next week, just so you can see how you have improved.
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