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Womens Fitness Tips & Exercise Advice
OPH Good Housekeeping – Womens Fitness Tips & Exercise Advice
When starting a new exercise regime a few considerations need to be taken into account. The exercise advice below will highlight some of these considerations. My aim is to give you hints and tips to help you get the most out of your new programme. So happy browsing!
Before starting any new fitness regime make sure you seek expert and medical advice before you do so. If you don’t, you maybe putting your health in danger.
Make sure, when you go down to the gym, that your body is properly hydrated, if you don’t, you may begin to get headaches or feel nauseas, amongst other things. Most gyms these days are kitted out with water coolers and fountains, so take advantage of these liquid refreshments.
Before you start any exercise, whether it be at the gym or at home, make sure you warm up properly first. Start off by giving your limbs a quick shake, and then by stretching the major muscle groups: biceps, thighs, hamstrings and calves. Doing this will limit the chance of you injuring yourself, additionally, by stretching your muscles, their definition can be increased.
When you have finished exercising it’s important that you warm down afterwards. You can do this by, you guessed it, stretching. Just stretch those major muscle groups to help release the lactic acid which has built up. This act will reduce the aches and pains you get after exercising. It will also lengthen the muscles, making your joints more supple.
When starting any exercising regime, ease yourself into it, perhaps get advice at the gym or even undertake a fitness test to gauge how fit you are. A lot of people have been known to start a new keep fit plan by pushing themselves to the brink. This has a couple of implications, firstly, you can do yourself serious damage, and secondly, it may put you off the idea of exercising, full stop, due to the bad experience of hurting yourself.
If you smoke, then this will place limitations or restrictions on how fit you’ll be able to get. As we all know, smoking, can affect your heart and lungs, thus, reducing your anaerobic fitness considerably. Why not try cutting down on the amount you smoke, or even better, why not quit altogether?
What ever you do when embarking on a new exercise regime, please, make it fun. If you do then you’ll find sticking to it will be a lot easier. If you can’t make it fun, then at least don’t make it repetitive. What you need to do is change your programme, often, not only will this make exercising less mundane and boring, it will help you exercise a larger range of different muscles.
If when exercising you start to feel pain in your joints or back, it’s your body’s way of telling you that you are over doing things. So take heed and stop doing the particular exercise that is causing you pain. If you try that exercise again, the pain is still there perhaps you may need to strengthen the muscle around the joint in question or seek specialist advice.
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