Self-Care Exercising

Self-Care Exercising

  Exercising regularly is one of the best things you can do for your health. Soon after you start exercising, you'll begin to see and feel the benefits that physical activity can have on your body and well-being. However, working exercise into your routine takes a lot of determination, and sticking to it in the long term requires discipline. If you're considering starting to exercise but don't know where to begin, this article is for you. Here's all you need to know about starting a routine and sticking to it.

Why Exercise?

      Regular exercise has been shown to significantly improve your health.  Its greatest benefits include helping you achieve and maintain a healthy body weight, maintain muscle mass and reduce your risk of chronic disease.  Additionally, research has shown that exercise can lift your mood, boost your mental health, help you sleep better and even enhance your sex life.  And that's not all — it can also help you maintain good energy levels. In short, exercise is powerful and can change your life.

·          Aerobic: Usually the core of any fitness program, it includes periods of continuous movement. Examples include swimming, running and dancing.

·         Strength: Helps increase muscle power and strength. Examples include resistance training, plyometrics, weight lifting and sprinting.

·         Calisthenics: Basic body movements done without gym equipment and at a medium aerobic pace. Examples include lunges, sit-ups, push-ups and pull-ups.

·         High-intensity interval training (HIIT): Includes repetitions of short bursts of high-intensity exercise followed by low-intensity exercises or rest periods.

·         Boot camps: Timed-based, high-intensity circuits that combine aerobic and resistance exercises.

·         Balance or stability: Strengthens muscles and improves body coordination. Examples include Pilates, tai chi poses and core-strengthening exercises.

·         Flexibility: Aides muscle recovery, maintains range of motion and prevents injuries. Examples include yoga or individual muscle-stretch movements.

. Examples include Pilates, tai chi poses and core-strengthening exercises.

     Flexibility: Aides muscle recovery, maintains range of motion and prevents injuries. Examples include yoga or individual muscle-stretch movements.

Whether you are aiming to improve your performance in a sport or activity or just want to reap the benefits of physical activity, body conditioning exercises strengthen and improve your body and performance. Body conditioning generally includes aerobic exercise, strength training and stretching and flexibility exercises.  Conditioning workouts are not a new fad. Adding them to your workout routine will drastically improve your progress by ensuring your body is ready for increased exertion levels.

                             

            Conditioning!!!

Conditioning workouts strengthen tendons, ligaments, and muscles and improve flexibility and range-of-motion, so your body is prepared when you start to use increased loads or higher intensity.  By including conditioning workouts in your daily schedule, your body will also burn calories after you have completed your exercise routine; allowing you to maximize the effects of your workout.

One of the biggest reasons men give up their workout plan is injury or soreness.

Even if you're eager to achieve your weight loss and lean muscle building goals; if you get injured or feel too sore, too often, you will likely give up on your workouts.  Conditioning workouts seek to avoid these issues. These workouts help to prepare your muscles, ligaments, tendons and other fibers in your body, to get stronger. This will lead to your ability to lift heavier and longer without detriment to the extent of you giving up altogether. Your body needs to be strong, but flexible and mobile enough to avoid injuries and soreness. This is achieved through the use of weights to push your body to a point where overload is not quite achieved. It will be just before too many micro-tears are made in your muscles, so soreness and injury are not caused. Conditioning means making your body capable of performing at the same level when you start working out and when you finish your routine. A good conditioning workout will build stamina but will also increase your strength levels. The good news is that conditioning exercises are easy to complete and can be incorporated into your schedule; even when you are struggling for time.

Why Are Conditioning Workouts So Effective?

Conditioning workouts are as effective as they build a solid foundation for your body, ready for you to move to the next level of physical exertion.  As previously mentioned, they build stronger muscles, tendons, and ligaments as well as increasing flexibility and mobility. It is this combination that makes them effective at keeping away most injuries and muscle soreness. A good example is our 24-minute fat burning workout, which moves you up through a pyramid, warming up your muscles and allowing plenty of range-of-motion, without overexerting your muscles. Perhaps the best part about this type of workout is that you will definitely feel like you've been put through your paces, but will not be so sore that you want to go back to sitting on the sofa. No matter what your fitness goals; it is important to include conditioning workouts to ensure maximum muscle definition and weight loss.

All in all, in self-care we need to build up and start exercising just because it is best for health. I myself just started working out last month and I’ve lost a certain amount of weight by just following up on my conditioning. I also workout with my friends and we all do heavy lifting and it helps me the most because it’s literally been a year since I worked out and they are helping me out with my life in trying to get back into it. Mostly, everyone has to get to that point in life where they finally figure out that they need to start going to the gym. My point came last month and I’m grateful that I have started. This is the most important way to stay healthy. Staying fit is very important because it makes you feel a lot more better.