Personal Training By VDesign

If you would like to be fit and stay healthy, you also have to understand that there is no gain without pain. In fact it is your body that will tell you how, when and why you need to work out to keep fit. For some people it is definitely an effort getting up early or finding time to visit a gym, but once you get started and begin to feel the benefits, working out can become a healthy habit for you too. Using the guidance of a personal trainer will help if you falter.

Make the time

There could be a good few activities in your life which you would gladly give up – maybe even your present job? But you know how important your job is so no matter what, you show up. The same attitude could apply to working out.

The benefits you get by exercising such as strong muscles and bones, weight management, relief from stress, a healthy heart, high self esteem and lesser risk of contracting several debilitating diseases – all these benefits far outweigh any laziness or reluctance that prevent you from doing regular workouts. To help you overcome such lethargy you could always take the help of a personal trainer.

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Other little tips that could help you to overcome any lethargy towards doing a workout could be:

• Going to bed at night wearing the clothes you will work out in. This could prove beneficial especially on a cold morning when you would have to get out of bed and get dressed for your workout.
• If you are a personal trainer at times you might not feel motivated enough to do your own workout on days when you do not conduct class. Other activities such as getting dinner, taking the dog for a walk, phone chatting or completing some outdoor errands might draw your attention away from working out. This can happen to anyone so one way to combat such distractions is to put on the workout clothes – this will automatically point you in the right direction.

Becoming one of the crowd

Though you may pride yourself on being individual in your style of living, many times you will find you are behaving and doing things similar to that of your family, acquaintances and co-workers. It becomes a game of follow the leader.

In a similar manner, this applies to your health and body also. If you have friends who are obese and indulge in the wrong food choices, you too could fall into that trap and emerge as a fat unhealthy person.

Obesity is a contagious condition, as any personal trainer will tell you, and easy to become comfortable with. In such a case try and mix with people who are health conscious and lead active and productive lives.

If you find it difficult to make the change, take the help of a personal trainer who will help you to decide on the type of workout you need, the right food you should eat, and how to become the healthy active person you should be. So get involved with people who have the right habits and values and are conscious of leading a healthy lifestyle.

Breathing is one of the important aspects when you are exercising. Though breathing is natural to life, your personal trainer will tell you that when working out you have to pay special attention to how you breathe.

Many people in an attempt to fully concentrate on the body movements actually forget to breathe. Sometimes they breathe slower, deeper, or too fast. Even breathing in and out as required in some exercises is not done correctly. Given below are some important breathing tips to follow when working out:

When you are doing strenuous exercises

Strenuous exercises result in the body requiring more oxygen and the breathing rate becomes faster. If you hold your breath during strength training it will limit the amount of oxygen that gets delivered to the brain and could cause fainting, dizziness, rise in your blood pressure and many other such complications.

So when doing strength training you should just breathe naturally. Your personal trainer may advise that you should exhale when you exert more during the exercise, and during the easier part, you should inhale. If you follow this advice you will not make the mistake of holding your breath.

The after-stretches

Once you complete your workout you should breathe fully and freely. This will help you to relax your body and return it to a state of rest. It also helps to remove by- product waste of the exercises and improve your flexibility. A personal trainer will advise you to take relaxed diaphragmatic and deep breaths rather than taking shallow breaths, or holding the breath altogether.

Using the art of pilates

Breathing correctly while working out is most important as emphasized by Joseph Pilates who developed his own exercises for mind and body. Emphasis should be on ribcage or lateral breathing which is different from diaphragmatic breathing as explained above.

When your abdomen muscles are engaged, you will inhale through your nose and your belly will not rise. At the same time air will fill your lungs and they expand into the back laterally; this makes your belly stay flat and tight.

When you exhale, with slightly open mouth you need to push the air out slowly and forcefully. Your personal trainer might also guide you with this way of breathing as it will keep the abdominal muscles engaged and help you to perform the Pilates workout more easily and with more control.

When doing aerobics

For any aerobic exercise such as biking, running, walking etc. the rule is to take deep breaths. Some people breathe through their mouth as it provides them with more oxygen. This method of diaphragmatic breathing is good for cardio activities. A personal trainer will tell you that this method of breathing is totally in contrast with shallow breathing from the chest, which one does while resting. Diaphragmatic breathing can be done as follows:

• You need to relax your abdominals and pull them in tightly.
• Then take a deep breath so that your belly rises and drops when you breathe in and out.
• Practice this technique so that your body gets the oxygen it requires during workouts.