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5 Tippy Tips For Designing Your Own Fitness Program

Health & Fitness 5 Tippy Tips For Designing Your Own Fitness Program
JAN 25, 2019 LISTEN

Muscular strength is required for many sports. Every one of us has a distinctive body build and potential for muscular strength. To obtain muscular strength, you choose exercises that make your muscles strong and large. There are no easy routes to increase muscular strengths.

Unfortunately, some athletes who want this strength gain them through wrong and harmful methods. They ultimately use steroids. These drugs are harmful and dangerous. Men may wind up sterile and may turn out to be excessively aggressive. With women, they will have abnormal growth of hair on their face, breasts, and chest. Menstruation may stop and their voice may become deeper.

There are healthy ways you could gain muscular strength. Below will highlight the five fitness plan to gain muscular strength. However, before you start, you should as a matter of first importance decide your level of muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, and body composition. To do this you can get assistance from your physical training instructor. It is also desirable to get a medical checkup. Inform your physician that you would like to have a fitness plan.

Here are five tips to consider in designing your fitness plan;

  1. Identify your physical fitness goals and objective

What do you intend to achieve by the end of the fitness program? You should have a clearly defined goal that stipulates the overall purpose of your fitness plan. So select fitness goals you would like to achieve in each of the fitness areas. For example, if you lack cardiovascular endurance, you may pick an exercise such as distance walking.

  1. Select exercises appropriate to your age and current dimension of physical fitness

Select exercises that are appropriate for you with defined characteristics such as age and your current dimension of physical wellness. For example, an old woman cannot do a press-up exercise, because she is not only old but her strength level won’t permit her.

  1. Select appropriate clothing and equipment needed

Your exercise segments will be increasingly pleasant in the event that you are comfortable and your sporting gear is directly for you. For example, if you run, it is best to run in a pair of shoes designed for running.

  1. Pursue and follow training principles

To get the most benefit from your fitness program, you will need to follow the training principles. Training principles are rules set out to increase physical fitness. They include,

  • Warm-up-it is about 5mins of simple exercise. You can start by stretching muscles, tendons and joints. This is done in a slow manner.
  • Cool-down- it is no less than five minutes after an exercise. It permits your pulse and body temperature to return to normal.
  • Frequency- the number of times you exercise in your fitness program. It could be thrice a week.

  1. Reevaluate your fitness level at standard intervals

To maintain physical fitness, you have to set up new objectives and make and pursue new plans

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Catherine Forson Agbo
Catherine Forson Agbo

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