So heres out first workout.
At the gym, the most basic observation for a male personal trainer is...? The women. No offense but once your off the cardio, the majority have the deer in headlights effect while walking around the gym trying to avoid the free weights and meat heads and go straight to the machines. Machines are great and all but in total fitness, you probably want there to be your last choice. So heres a sample workout that will get you burning calories and at hopefully make you feel more comfortable away from your treadmill. Its a basic cardio/Body weight circuit.
First:
Do 10 minutes of cardio
(you can do this however you like on whatever machine you like, as long as its fast enough for you to break a sweat within those 10 minutes)
Second:
Go and do 10 pushups, 10 body weight squats and 10 crunches. Go through that group 3 times. so a total of 30 of each.
(if you can't do pushups well, do them girly with your legs crossed or elevated on a smith machine. Also on the squats focus on your form by sitting your hips back as if you were sitting on a chair or the toilet.)
Third:
Rest
(Now you can rest either by relaxing until your breathing rate goes back to normal, or by getting back on the cardio and doing a walking pace for a minute.
Fourth:
Like hair, repeat steps 1 through 3 another 2 times until you do a total 30 minutes of cardio.
There you have a easy workout that hits your cardio needs for the day while also adding a small amount of strength training without you feeling like wonderwoman just yet. Keep in mind, if the exercises are too easy, you can always adjust them by adding dumbbells or changing tempo but progress slowly. Just because a normal pushup is easy, don't instantly try to jump to 1 arm on a swiss ball blindfolded type pushups.
Do this 3 times a week.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
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