Getting fit can be difficult, particularly if you've spent the last few years (or decades!) putting off fitness until tomorrow. Well, your fitness is not something that can keep waiting. Your health depends on it.
Staying fit doesn't require you to run 6 miles each day. It only requires that your lungs are healthy and your heart is strong. There are benefits for the rest of your body too, such as losing that extra weight that somehow settled on your tummy.
Is there a fast track way to losing weight and getting fit? Surely hours on the everyday is not the only way?
Doing cardio work (running, cycling etc) is vital for heart health, but you can speed up your fitness and weight loss progress by undertaking a weightlifting fitness program.
Don't worry, you won't turn into the Hulk if that's not what you're going for. Lifting weights has been around for ages and includes many benefits including:
-When you build muscle, you drop weight faster by burning a larger amount of fat, even when you sleep!
- Bones become stronger.
- Your body will strengthen and you'll be more energetic.
There's no need to go to a gym if you don't want to. Weightlifting fitness can be accomplished at home too. All you'll need is a simple set of dumbbells to start with and progress from there.
Start out with light, easy weight lifting and then progress from there to move heavier weights. Within a few weeks you will notice your muscle definition and your overall body shape changing for the better.
Although weight lifting can produce dramatic results in a short time frame, don't drop your cardio workouts. They are very important to your body. Try for a mixture of 50-50 by alternating weight and cardio workouts.
Here's a good routine to get you going in the morning: 30 minutes of cardio like going for a walk. Add your weights around mid day. Make sure not to work the same group of muscles each day. Your breaking them down so let them rebuild and recover. This is how your muscles grow and get stronger. - 16004
Staying fit doesn't require you to run 6 miles each day. It only requires that your lungs are healthy and your heart is strong. There are benefits for the rest of your body too, such as losing that extra weight that somehow settled on your tummy.
Is there a fast track way to losing weight and getting fit? Surely hours on the everyday is not the only way?
Doing cardio work (running, cycling etc) is vital for heart health, but you can speed up your fitness and weight loss progress by undertaking a weightlifting fitness program.
Don't worry, you won't turn into the Hulk if that's not what you're going for. Lifting weights has been around for ages and includes many benefits including:
-When you build muscle, you drop weight faster by burning a larger amount of fat, even when you sleep!
- Bones become stronger.
- Your body will strengthen and you'll be more energetic.
There's no need to go to a gym if you don't want to. Weightlifting fitness can be accomplished at home too. All you'll need is a simple set of dumbbells to start with and progress from there.
Start out with light, easy weight lifting and then progress from there to move heavier weights. Within a few weeks you will notice your muscle definition and your overall body shape changing for the better.
Although weight lifting can produce dramatic results in a short time frame, don't drop your cardio workouts. They are very important to your body. Try for a mixture of 50-50 by alternating weight and cardio workouts.
Here's a good routine to get you going in the morning: 30 minutes of cardio like going for a walk. Add your weights around mid day. Make sure not to work the same group of muscles each day. Your breaking them down so let them rebuild and recover. This is how your muscles grow and get stronger. - 16004
About the Author:
Paul Williams is a 2nd. Degree Black Belt in Okinawan Goju Karate and is a student of various other martial arts. He is skilled in a Variety of weapons and keeps in shape through weights cardio Yoga and Pilates. Stop by his blog Weight Fitness for helpful hints and advice on all things related to weight and fitness including weight fitness equipment reviews.
