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It is difficult to acquire the shape you want unless you have a personal trainer who will guide you along the way. Achieving the physique we crave isn’t as simple as many folks assume it is. To figure out your body type and its specific needs requires expertise and experience.
The most prized possession that any of us have is our own body. Every individual has unique physical traits. This demands the expertise of a personal fitness trainer who can focus on every client to ensure they reach their goals.
Many times people desire a body that is toned, but are not motivated and this prevents them from turning this desire into a reality. It takes a bit of a push to get us out of this lazy slump. Your fitness instructor will furnish you with this essential motivating factor.
We understand the ideal exercise routines that are required in order to attain this objective. Your fitness coach is armed with the best information regarding the proper positions and equipment needed for workouts. A fitness trainer provides assistance to concentrate on a given part of the body to achieve the desired results.
The required equipment will be provided to you by a professional fitness trainer, who will also teach you the correct method of using them. In addition, your personal trainer will supervise your diet.
A professional fitness trainer’s wisdom and expertise is very important. A professional fitness trainer is unparalleled in information and aid. Your personal training sessions will enlighten you with fitness tips as well as broadening your knowledge of fitness.
With individual fitness training, the fitness instructors will assist you in getting your shape back as quickly as possible; you will also learn how to keep your shape. You just need to focus on your workout, while your fitness trainer is responsible for devising your exercise program. If you are aware of the health improvements you need to make and where you have to reach, then you can reap maximum benefits from personal training.
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As a North London Personal Trainer I spend around 1000 hours a year training my clients and have discovered that 7 reoccurring mistakes are made on a frequent basis. Just by taking note and correcting these 7 issues will dramatically improve your results and prevent injury.
1. Learn to breathe
Breathing correctly is vital when exercising. Deep breaths provide more oxygen to the body and in turn provide you with the ability to work harder; they also prevent you from becoming dizzy or light headed. Breaths should be taken deeply and from the pit of the stomach or diaphragm. Get into a good habit of breathing out during the hardest part of the exercise and in during the easiest. For example, when performing a push up breathe in on the way down and out on the way up. Never hold your breath, even when stretching!
2. Take your time
This is one of the most common mistakes I see and the harder the exercise becomes the more tempted you are to rush through it. Muscles need time to work and be stimulated, unless you are training for speed. A good test is to ask yourself whether you would be able to pause at any part during the exercise movement, if not then you are moving too fast. Chances are no matter how slow you think you are moving, you are probably moving too fast. A squat should take around 5 seconds, 2 seconds down, pause for a second and 2 seconds up.
3. Think technique
Concentrating on your technique and good form will ensure that you target the correct muscles and don’t develop bad habits. Bad technique is a sure fire way to get injured, if your technique starts to fail then stop the exercise. The last thing you want to do is develop a motor pattern for an incorrect movement. Start off with the correct movement and concentrate on that movement the whole time, think about what muscles are working and how it feels.
4. Tighten your core
If you want to develop 6 pack abs, a strong core and prevent injury then you must switch on your core. By switch on I mean brace your stomach as if you were about to take a punch ‘ pull your navel in towards your spine and squeeze. Performing this action not only protects your spine but also gives your stomach muscles a thorough workout. If you switch on your core during every exercise the chances are you won’t need to do many individual core exercises to develop your stomach. The fact is that your core is working hard during most exercises (providing you are not lazy and using machines) and so the need for targeted stomach muscle exercises should be at a minimum.
5. Reduce your rest periods
I don’t believe in long cardio sessions, in fact research has shown that they don’t work anyway. If you want to get a good cardio workout then reduce the rest periods between your exercises. I see too many people at gyms idly standing around talking or reading magazines. To get the most out of your workouts reduce your resting times and increase the intensity. I like to put 2 or 3 exercises back to back with no rest periods to really get the heart rate up and lungs working.
6. Warm up the correct movement patterns
Starting your exercise programme without a warm is just asking for trouble. Not only do warm ups prepare your body physically but also prepare you mentally. The warm up should replicate the movements that you will be performing in the actual workout. If you are going to be pressing things over your head then make sure you push your arms up and down overhead a few times first. If you are going to be doing heavy squats then some body weight squats first will prepare you for this.
7. Stretch only the tight muscles
Everybody is designed differently and we all have some muscles that are tight and others that are more flexible. It is pointless performing a stretching routine that focuses on your most flexible areas; you should leave these alone and work on you most inflexible muscles. In order to neutralise your posture and improve your range of movement you should only stretch the areas that really need it.
By: Greg Brookes
About the Author:
Greg is a health and fitness professional based in Hampstead, North London. He achieves fantastic results for his clients by using his indepth knowledge and the most up to date techniques.
http://www.gbpersonaltraining.com
Some previous studies and researches found that in most women, the pill seems to add no extra pounds. For many years this claim had some truth as women did tend to put on weight due to the increased level of estrogen in the pill, which causes an increased appetite and water retention. Presently, the amount of estrogen in the pill is reduced to almost the half of what it used to be.
Some studies have shown that while at first the pill may add a couple of pounds due to water retention but eventually, as the body adjusts to the hormones, the added weight disappears. Teenage is the time when most of the women starts birth control and continue it through their 20s. And that’s the period when women tend to gain weight reason being the faulty lifestyle and we blame it on the pill.
Lifestyle affects our body, what we eat affects our metabolism hence making us reduce or gain weight. We need to take care of what all goes in, and definitely what shows, itself is taken care of!
A change in your lifestyle, following a diet meal plan and exercising regularly will make the difference you want to see in yourself. Look for all the things together. Nutrition, plyometrics, aerobics ,boot camp training, fitness programs, personal trainers, weight loss, useful diet tips, bodybuilding, aerobics to help you burn that extra fat.
Lifestyle change, a diet meal plan, a personal trainer all of this put together wouldn’t let the myth of pill affecting your weight work, even if it would have been a truth.
By: Sheldon
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Weights and machines will always have their place in fitness – but they are not the only way to achieve a strong, well toned upper body. The right selection of body weight workouts can produce a sufficient training stimulus to bring about desired changes, continuous progress and visible results. As health clubs and fitness centers are filled with and endless amount of workout machines and weight training equipment it is in their best interest to promote weight and machine type fitness programs. Naturally, members develop a dependency on these types of workouts because they do not learn any alternative training methods. Some fitness experts argue that workouts with machines and weights are the only path to true upper body fitness. Nothing can be further from the truth.
The problems with this scenario range from the ‘more is better’ syndrome to the ‘I got out of my routine’ excuse. To develop a strong, fit and defined upper body your workouts must be realistic for long term adherence and they must consist of exercises that can be done at home or in a hotel room. As a career personal trainer and fitness consultant I’ve had the opportunity to work with many people at various stages of life. The people who live with long term fitness success are the ones who adopt their upper body workouts so that they are ‘portable’ – meaning if they don’t have a gym available to them – it’s not going to prevent them from getting their upper body workout session in. This ties into one of the essential elements of fitness success – consistency. Staying on a regular routine will yield the best long term results. Starting and stopping a routine that is unrealistic will yield harmful results.
Upper body workouts consisting of body weight exercises produce an incredible amount of natural strength while providing gender specific improvements in muscular development. While women seek more of a toning and firming effect, men seek more of a lean muscle building effect with muscle group definition. A silly fitness myth exists that has people believing that a woman will develop muscles like a man if she follows the same type of upper body workout program. The exercise program does not dictate this result. It’s the gender/genetic differences of the male and female DNA that dictate the characteristics of the results that men and women derive from well rounded, and properly structured upper body workouts. Not the type or intensity of the workout itself.
Yes, we occasionally see women who look like male bodybuilders or power-lifters – but these freakish looks can almost always be traced back to some method of pharmaceutical enhancement. For example, taking anabolic steroids to develop as much muscle mass as possible is one way for a woman to lose the fit and feminine look. Nothing against them – but they do not represent the definition of fitness.
Whether you are male or female, the benefits of properly structured upper body workouts that do not rely on the confines of a gym or fitness center can give you all the results you could ever want, in a program that can easily be followed for life. After all, isn’t that what true fitness is about?
Keep your health club membership – especially if you enjoy doing some of your upper body workouts there. But it would be wise for you to develop some bodyweight exercise routines for you to follow at home or while you are ‘on the road’ – so you don’t fall victim to over-training injuries or find yourself missing three weeks of workouts because you were ‘out of town’.
By: Joey Atlas
About the Author:
Fitness Trainer and Consultant, Joey Atlas, is the creator of the Upper Body Workouts for Men and Women DVD Program.
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