Welcome to afitnewyou! Today I would like to give you a tip on how
to get through some of your hardest exercises and workouts. We all have those days and / or workouts that
we can’t stand to bear. But ironically, it’s
usually the ones that we need and should be doing the most that cause us the
most displeasure. So here is a tip on
how to get through these troublesome routines…pair the ones you find to be the
worst, with your best. Pairing the loved
and hated exercises will average out in your brain, and will allow you to do
the ones you know you should be doing, but just don’t like.
Reina is one of my favorite clients
for many reasons, but one thing that particularly makes me so fond of her is
that even though she rarely misses a session with me, she also gets into the
gym a few days a week on her own. It
makes my job much easier to have a client coming in on their own, and who uses
the same exercises and principles that I teach when she is training with me. But, she will be the first to tell you that
there are certain exercises that she does only when she is training with me;
and its not because of a lack of confidence, but she just doesn’t like
them. And for someone who has been
classified as a gym rat and is also very open minded about fitness, its not
that she doesn’t find anything wrong with the exercises, its just that they are
a bit more challenging. Sometimes I have
her do a number of these types of exercises in the same session and she
jokingly questions if I am punishing her.
So, what I have found to be the best balance of getting her to do what
she needs, and still making the session as enjoyable as possible is to
alternate one of these more challenging exercises with one she likes much
better.
I have also given this advice to
gym clients who dread doing a “leg” day.
Most everyone who works out regularly know that most males hate doing
legs, and if there is a day to skip, it would be their leg day. Walk into any gym on a Monday and you will
see most guys training their chest, because according to me it’s the unofficial
National Chest Day. Guys would rather
train their chest and arms, because not only do they think these muscle groups
are more noticed by the ladies, but also because training legs involves more
demanding exercises. However, training
your legs is incredibly important as they are the largest muscles in your body,
and it’s where we derive our power from.
So, what I have suggested, and honestly have been doing myself, is to
combine the leg and chest day workouts.
Super setting leg and chest exercises works quite well as you can jump
from one exercise to the other, being that one is a lower body exercise and the
other is an upper body exercise, allowing the heart rate to stay elevated the
entire workout while giving each muscle group time to recover. Many people whom I have made this suggestion
to have used it with great success both in terms of fitness development and
overall enjoyment.
Combining your least and most
favorite exercises is a great way to integrate all of the exercises that you
should be doing during a workout, not just the ones you like the most or find
the easiest. It’s often the exercises
that we dread that are the most beneficial for us. I have always said the best exercises are the
ones that you will do. And while I still
maintain that thought, as a trainer I know it’s harder to want to do certain
exercises over others, and that some you simply need to do. What will make it easier to do the most
beneficial exercises is to combine them with ones that you enjoy to a greater
degree doing. This balance of exercises
is a great way to reach a fit new you.
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