fitness guru and Nick Robinson is
sharing her secrets to a healthy
lifestyle hi I’m Veronica watchmojo.com
and today we’re taking a look at the
next step
exercise so now we’ve talked about your
nutrition we’ve talked about your
hydration but what’s really important is
exercise now exercise is only beneficial
if you’re doing it right what does that
mean well the first thing you need to
know about your exercise program is it
needs to be strategic so your program
needs to make sure it gets you to your
goals whether it’s weight loss its
increasing your power its increasing
your posture it’s improving your general
overall health and it needs to include
within that strategy it needs to make
sure it takes into account your ability
to sustain your workout plan it needs to
make sure that you’re getting some
cardiovascular health in your program
your resistance training in order to
keep your muscles strong and increase
your metabolism or maintain your
metabolism and it needs to work on your
flexibility because flexibility is
something that we lose gradually with
age so find yourself a really good
personal trainer or a fitness
professional who can help you put
together a strategy so you make your
workout time the most effective possible
how many times should you do resistance
training versus cardio or something to
improve your flexibility really depends
on your specific objective and if you
have general conditioning as a goal and
you can workout about six days a week or
make your way to the gym for six hours
during the week then what you want to
make sure is that you’re doing
resistance training for your whole body
three times a week and alternating that
with a cardio day and then making sure
that you’re making some time for
flexibility on the day after your
resistance
can you take a yoga course for your
flexibility some yoga absolutely it’s
nice slow moving and we’ll take you into
deep flexibility but some yoga your
muscles will burn and you will be sore
after and I would count that as
resistance training how many times did
you change your routine whether it’s in
a class or in the weight room a good
teacher will change their routine every
four weeks or so so make sure that their
participants aren’t becoming plateaued
at the level that they’re at but if
you’re running your own program for
example in a gym setting you should be
making sure that someone is tweaking
your program every three to four weeks
should your workout ever be easy for you
some people their objective is to gain
mass and so they might have a shorter
amount of repetitions of a heavier
weight and someone who just wants to
tone and lengthen the muscles they might
just have a longer amount of repetitions
with a lighter weights but in either
case you need to get yourself to total
muscle exhaustion and what that means is
that the last repetition you do has to
be almost impossible now there are some
women who just stay with the cardio
machines because they’re scared of
bulking up is that a true concern your
muscle mass arose over time it peaks at
about age 21 and it slowly starts to
dwindle and as your muscle mass
decreases your metabolism starts to slow
down and so by increasing your muscle
mass you’re actually burning more
calories so one pound of muscle burns
eight pounds of fat per year so for
those ladies that are stuck on the
cardio machine they’d be much better off
doing a little bit of cardiovascular
exercise for heart health but planning
their weight loss program around
resistance training because they put on
one pound of muscle and tone up they’ll
be eight pounds lighter at the end of
the year is there anything else you want
to leave us with concerning your
exercise program if you just put
together a really good training program
and you stick to
you can turn back the clock of time and
actually regain the energy you had when
you were much younger and have for
example a 55 year olds have the
metabolic age of an 18 year old and you
know who they are because they’re the
ones that are vibrant they have energy
and they look a lot younger than they
really are I think that should be
everyone’s goal thank you thank you
sharing her secrets to a healthy
lifestyle hi I’m Veronica watchmojo.com
and today we’re taking a look at the
next step
exercise so now we’ve talked about your
nutrition we’ve talked about your
hydration but what’s really important is
exercise now exercise is only beneficial
if you’re doing it right what does that
mean well the first thing you need to
know about your exercise program is it
needs to be strategic so your program
needs to make sure it gets you to your
goals whether it’s weight loss its
increasing your power its increasing
your posture it’s improving your general
overall health and it needs to include
within that strategy it needs to make
sure it takes into account your ability
to sustain your workout plan it needs to
make sure that you’re getting some
cardiovascular health in your program
your resistance training in order to
keep your muscles strong and increase
your metabolism or maintain your
metabolism and it needs to work on your
flexibility because flexibility is
something that we lose gradually with
age so find yourself a really good
personal trainer or a fitness
professional who can help you put
together a strategy so you make your
workout time the most effective possible
how many times should you do resistance
training versus cardio or something to
improve your flexibility really depends
on your specific objective and if you
have general conditioning as a goal and
you can workout about six days a week or
make your way to the gym for six hours
during the week then what you want to
make sure is that you’re doing
resistance training for your whole body
three times a week and alternating that
with a cardio day and then making sure
that you’re making some time for
flexibility on the day after your
resistance
can you take a yoga course for your
flexibility some yoga absolutely it’s
nice slow moving and we’ll take you into
deep flexibility but some yoga your
muscles will burn and you will be sore
after and I would count that as
resistance training how many times did
you change your routine whether it’s in
a class or in the weight room a good
teacher will change their routine every
four weeks or so so make sure that their
participants aren’t becoming plateaued
at the level that they’re at but if
you’re running your own program for
example in a gym setting you should be
making sure that someone is tweaking
your program every three to four weeks
should your workout ever be easy for you
some people their objective is to gain
mass and so they might have a shorter
amount of repetitions of a heavier
weight and someone who just wants to
tone and lengthen the muscles they might
just have a longer amount of repetitions
with a lighter weights but in either
case you need to get yourself to total
muscle exhaustion and what that means is
that the last repetition you do has to
be almost impossible now there are some
women who just stay with the cardio
machines because they’re scared of
bulking up is that a true concern your
muscle mass arose over time it peaks at
about age 21 and it slowly starts to
dwindle and as your muscle mass
decreases your metabolism starts to slow
down and so by increasing your muscle
mass you’re actually burning more
calories so one pound of muscle burns
eight pounds of fat per year so for
those ladies that are stuck on the
cardio machine they’d be much better off
doing a little bit of cardiovascular
exercise for heart health but planning
their weight loss program around
resistance training because they put on
one pound of muscle and tone up they’ll
be eight pounds lighter at the end of
the year is there anything else you want
to leave us with concerning your
exercise program if you just put
together a really good training program
and you stick to
you can turn back the clock of time and
actually regain the energy you had when
you were much younger and have for
example a 55 year olds have the
metabolic age of an 18 year old and you
know who they are because they’re the
ones that are vibrant they have energy
and they look a lot younger than they
really are I think that should be
everyone’s goal thank you thank you
Please follow and like us: