So how’s your first week back going? Was it tough like for most people? Did you take it easy? or did you not even get going and feel totally sorry for yourself?!!!
Whatever your answer was, as long as you got going in the first place, then that was the main thing. Those of you who were not sure how to exercise, how much, how long, how many days etc, will have now got a week under your belts and realise that for the first month or so, its just important to go steady and get your body used to exercise. Confidence comes with experience and as long as you have a good guide, then you are likely to experience very good things.
In general terms, i would say that 3 times per week is enough for a beginner, someone who is used to exercise but wants to take it to another level would be advised to go up to 4- 5 times per week. An individual who has specific aims or wants to exercise at a high level AND has a lot of exercise experienced, could possibly workout 5-6 times per week quite comfortable as long as that person was experiencing good amounts of sleep and particularly good with their food.
Most people don’t realise that exercise is a stress on your body but a very positive stress. To regularly experience this good stress without any problems, you have to replenish your body with adequate nutrition and that mainly comes from an abundance of natural foods. You can do all of that and if you don’t get enough sleep, you can still fall down and fail to progress. The triple whammy of proper exercise, eating well and sleeping well has to be in place or there’s not much point in trying to get amazing results in your health and fitness programme.
No matter on how people to try over-complicate their programmes and do the latest cutting edge routines from the latest faddy magazines, unless you have strong fundamentals underpinning your helath, progress will be brief if any at all.
People ask me all the time “shouldn’t i be on this machine, this routine or this way of training?”, all valid questions but i tell people all the time it always comes back down to the basics. You can train in the most fancy gym in town, but if you’re not doing the basics right, then results WILL NOT come your way full stop. In fact in my experience, most of the fancy gyms have the least results with usually “instructors” who have been “qualified” in a couple of weekends.
I trust you don’t want to continue going round in circles so let’s keep it simple, hit your training hard, never miss a session unless you’re ill, eat well, rest well and leave your body experience great results!!!
The weekend is supposed to be dry so no excuse for you not to get out in the fresh air!!!
