Your Fitness Journey Starts Today
You don’t have to study for years to begin your fitness journey, but you do have to make a firm decision to change your habits and make them healthier. That’s always the first step in any journey. Healthy habits, like exercising regularly, getting adequate sleep, drinking plenty of water and eating a healthy diet are goals that can lead the way. You need to get your attitude in line, so you look forward to making the changes, not feel sorry for yourself.
Don’t feel deprived when you’re eating healthier.
At first, the change in your diet will be a shock, especially if you’re eating highly processed foods and foods laden with sugar. Sugar is in almost all processed items, too. Sugar is addictive and at first you’ll really crave it. It won’t take long before the healthy food you’re eating will actually taste different. Fruit will taste sweeter, for instance. That’s because when you eat sugar, it blocks the sense of the sweet taste and you have to eat more sugar every time to get it. Once you quit, your taste goes back to normal. Whether you give up sugar or simply increase your vegetable intake, like any journey, starting is what’s important.
Get moving.
If you aren’t ready for a formal exercise program or so out of shape you simply won’t last long? Don’t worry, you can change that. It takes time, however. There’s a true story about a young man that was so severely obese that he could barely get out of his chair. His doctor’s told him he would die if he didn’t lose weight. He started by exercising. It was just walking out of his house to the end of the walk and back. That’s as far as he could go. Every week he went a few steps further, until he got to the end of his block, then several blocks. Since those first steps, several years have passed. Not only did he lose weight and live healthier, he’s become a marathon runner, but it was that first step that made the difference.
Own your effort to get fit.
You can listen to others about what you need to do, but this challenge to get healthier is all yours. Only you should determine what you want to work on next. You can follow outlines based on science, but how you accomplish each step depends on you. Do you love riding a bike? Start by doing that. Do you want to increase your daily activity? Take the steps not the elevator or walk to lunch. Are vegetables not your favorite? Make spaghetti squash and put extra vegetables in the sauce.
- If you don’t have a full hour to exercise or even a half hour, carve out three ten minute sessions throughout the day. It’s just as healthy to walk for ten minutes, exercise ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes at night.
- If you’re adding something to your schedule, like exercise, try to do it at the same time each day until it becomes habit.
- Too often people go on diets that require counting calories or counting carbs. Make it simpler by eating whole food, food closest to its natural state. Vegetables fill you up without adding extra calories, so you’ll lose weight without the hassle.
- If you’ve had a rough day and consider skipping your workout, remember that exercise is a big stress buster. It burns off the hormones of stress and replaces them with ones that make you feel good.
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There are tons of articles written about the perfect workout, which ones are true? If you go LIV Fitness, our trainers will help you with routines that are geared to your fitness level and burn the most calories, but you’re on your own trying to sift through the information on the internet to find home workouts that burn the most calories, Here are some guidelines to help you identify the best workouts.
If you come to LIV Fitness in Dublin, CA, you’ll find people that use split workouts and others that swear by full-body workouts. Which one is best? There are pros and cons for both types of workouts and it all depends on which one is best for you. A split workout breaks your workout to various parts of the body on different days, normally it’s upper body and lower body days with abs on either day. Full-body workouts are just that, a workout that addresses the needs of all parts of your body.
Everyone wants that six-pack look or the perfect flat stomach. In fact, you’ll find all types of exercises and workouts on the internet that claim to burn stomach fat, but the truth is, you can’t just burn fat in one area, it comes off the entire body. No matter how many exercises you do to tone your abs, if you still have a layer of fat covering them, nobody will see the work you’ve done. In order to burn belly fat, you have to burn fat all over your body.
Whether it’s due to a stay at home order or a blip in your schedule, you may not always be able to go to the gym. That doesn’t mean you should skip your exercise program, but might mean you need to modify it a bit. If your daily demands force you to skip your workouts at the gym, it doesn’t mean you should skip them altogether. There are exercises you can do at home that require no equipment or equipment that’s easy to make or secure. Your health is too important to skip your workout for any reason if there’s an alternative.
You feel great and are ready to take on the world. Well, at least challenge your body and take on the challenges of the gym. That first workout is invigorating and you can’t imagine not being able to achieve success. Inevitably, that enthusiasm you started with often wanes and it’s tough stay dedicated to your fitness goals. The key to success in fitness come primarily from sticking with a goal. Here are a few ways clients shared to maintain their determination to strive for success.
At LIV Fitness in Dublin, CA, we offer lots of help and even provide personal trainers. If you have a special need, such as joint problems, which requires low impact ways to stay fit, our trainer is glad to provide that aid. However, there are things you can do on your own for a program that’s easy on the joints, while cutting the risk of musculoskeletal injury. Dancing is one of those workouts that you can do at home. Avoid moves like jumping or leaping. Play some oldies, like “The Twist” and you’ll be burning calories and having fun.
There’s a lot of misinformation about snacking. A lot of it comes from moms worried it would ruin your appetite for supper. The truth is, snacking can actually help you lose weight. However, the real key is they type of snack you choose. If you opt for a bag of M&Ms or a quick order of nachos at the 7-11, you really need to wait until supper. A snack of an apple or other healthy food is more in line with the type of snacking that’s good for you.
Everything you eat or drink has some impact on your health. If you’re trying to lose weight, quitting the soft drink addiction is one way to help. However, don’t replace it with no calories soft drinks, studies show they can cause the accumulation of visceral fat—belly fat. Try water. It hydrates you and is extremely healthy. If you don’t like regular water, try infused water or even unsweetened tea. There are benefits of green tea that do more than just keep you hydrated.