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Become Healthier, Become Fitter

Become Healthier, Become FitterBy Ric Wiley

If truth be told most of us want to be a lot fitter then we are. It is something we should all be aiming for, a better level of fitness. So where do we all start. Well a quick internet search reveals too many pages to provide a good and reliable source of information, and there is a great deal of in formation provided on the TV channels, books, newspapers and countless fitness DVDs. To be honest there will always be something out there that will help, or maybe you can take a small information and details from each one to build your own fitness regime.

Are there any benefits to being fitter? Guess what the answer is. Yes, fitter is better. Fitter equals less body fat or adipose tissue as this is something that is burnt off during exercise and exercise is how to become fitter. You could just diet to become slimmer however your chances of loosing weight will be much greater if you exercise as well as diet.

A fitter person has a lower heart rate which improves your well being and as you will be breathing harder during exercise this will increase your lung function so you will enable your body to absorb more oxygen to feed your brain and muscles.

If you have hypertension, being fitter can help to lower this and can positively affect both diastolic and systolic levels. This has helped me recently as I am suffering from hypertension and one of the side effects of my medication has been to lower my heart rate. A lower heart rate means less oxygen circulating round my body, and less oxygen means less brain food. This explains why some days I have been slightly confused (chaotic, jumbled or muddled; making no sense; illogical; embarrassed) and somewhat forgetful. I decided to raise my overall fitness level and have been working out for several months now. My confusion has gone, my weight is down, my excess body fat or adipose tissue is dropping and my hypertension is much better.

Being fitter can also have a positive effect on cholesterol (A soft waxy substance that is a natural component of the fats in the bloodstream and is used by all the cells of the body. There is a "good" form of cholesterol (HDL), which protects the heart, and a "bad" form (LDL), which causes heart disease and other problems.) levels, reducing LDL cholesterol, (which is good), yet helping to raise the HDL level, (which I understand is also good). Greater fitness can also help your heart and lower the odds of having a stroke. I used to smoke which wasn't good for my heart and found exercise very hard. I decided to stop smoking and coupled with a fitness regime I now feel much better and a lot fitter.

My stamina and strength has increased greatly since working out and this is even more important to people as you get a small older.

A great way of developing a fitness regime is to seek help and your local gym should have a personal trainer, (or you can find your own). These will advise you on the greatest way to become fitter and remember they are the experts. A personal trainer knows the things we don't and it is sensible advice to listento their advice. They will not set up a fitness regime that is so strenuous that it will kill you on day one. A personal trainer will assist and help you build up your strength and stamina by developing a sensible program of exercise. To develop a sensible fitness program we need to consider 4 important areas.

Aerobic exercise is a form of exercise which is low in its intensity however lengthy in its duration. Put simply this means not too hard however goes on a long time such as walking, swimming and aerobics on your own or in aerobic workout classes.

Another way of getting fitter is to pull weights which is known as resistance training. My experience of this training is limited however to do it sensibly start with low weights and build up the weight as your fitness builds up. Remember, be sensible and don't over do it as you can damage your body easily with unsupervised weight training.

You could take up a fitness regime involving flexibility exercises such as yoga. Remember though you still need to eat a properly balanced diet of sensible foods as part of your fitness program.

Getting fitter can be easy, just do easy exercises a small at a time and then do it properly and intensively. To get fit quick though, consider being advised by a specialist fitness trainer, either a personal one or one based in a gym. They will assist and help you find out what is greatest for you. Books and web sites can give you guidance as to how to get fitter and this is what a personal trainer will do, however a book or a web site cannot tailor the advice to you and your circumstances. A personal trainer can, and will, do this. Another thing they can do, which is usually something I need, is they can help to motivate you in order that you can develop your own fitness regime. Becoming fitter takes time and time is something that many of up are short of in today's modern or contemporary (belonging to the present time) world. Just remember that you need to keep working at a fitness regime to develop a better level of fitness. Fitness is not something you can buy at the supermarket. In order to become fitter you just need to take things steady at first however there has to be a first, you have to start somewhere. Just look at me. I used to be a heavy smoker and drinker; I was grossly overweight and had hypertension. Now, I am much fitter, can jog miles without problems, the hypertension is much more controlled and my waistline has shrunk. How, well I started a fitness program which was easy at first, and just built up from there. Start small and build up to a more developed program. Good luck. I did it and so can you.

Ric Wiley is an internet writer and gardener. His latest website about High Density Gardening can be found at http://www.highdensitygardening.com/home.html

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How Getting a Personal Trainer Can Help You

How Getting a Personal Trainer Can Help YouBy Pete Griggs

I get a lot of emails from people asking me what personal training entails and how it will assist and help their fitness.

So I thought I'd write an article to explain the benefits.

A common misconception made by people is that they need some level of fitness to be able to start using a personal trainer. This is very bad thinking. If you have no fitness whatsoever a personal trainer will be able to show you how to quickly get fit, and stop you picking up any bad habits along the way. They will also teach you a whole host of exercises and routines and gradually build on your knowledge of health and fitness.

I get a lot of people who come to me who are very fit too, however their level of fitness is not where they want it to be. In such cases a personal trainer can show you the steps that you need to take to achieve your goals.

People who are new to fitness often need as much encouragement and motivation as possible to get them started because they are making changes in their lives which need to stick, or they will slip back into there old unhealthy ways and bad habits. Using a personal trainer to motivate you is the greatest way to make these changes stick, when you have a booking with a trainer you have to go, unlike the gym when you go when you feel like it. Even if your feeling crappy when you get to the session a good personal trainer will encourage you to finish the session with lots of motivation, and you'll feel great at the end.

Having a frequent and regular session with a personal trainer also makes sure you stay on track to achieving your health and fitness goals. Most people start exercise with the greatest intentions to get their goals, however often after a few months they have made small progress towards obtaining them and are doing the same thing over andover. Regular sessions with a fitness trainer will ensure you stay on track, and that you steadily progress towards you goal by constantly challenging you each session and getting you fitter and fitter.

Choose a personal trainer who is fit themselves, this will act as an inspiration to you to better yourself and be more like them. You can model a personal trainer so you can be like them, also working out with someone who is fit will highlight to you the areas of your fitness that you need to work on.

An important factor in achieving you fitness goals is sorting out what you eat. Get your personal trainer to sort out your diet and show you where to make the necessary improvements or changes. Once you have you diet sorted out you will be amazed how much easier it is to achieve your fitness goals.

Lastly find yourself a personal trainer that you get along with, this is often overlooked. You may be spending a lot of time with your fitness trainer so it is important that they are friendly and that there is a good vibe between you. A good trainer will have your interests as there number one priority when you are with them, so that you stay focused on achieving you goals throughout the session.

More articles of mines can be found at my personal training site Personal Trainer London

To book a session with a personal trainer please visit www.petegriggs.com

Personal Trainer Pete Griggs' website Personal Trainer.

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Killer Work Out Routine For a Better Body

Killer Work Out Routine For a Better BodyBy Chris McCombs

There are many important aspects of working out that you can do to build a healthier and fitter body. You should always start your workouts with a warm-up of ten to thirty minutes. The warm up should involve low energy activities such as jogging, walking, and cardiovascular exercise. This will warm up your muscles, getting them ready for higher volumes of exercise, such as the five important components of fitness, which are aerobic fitness, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and body composition.

Aerobic fitness contains exercises like biking, running and swimming. This type of exercise gets the oxygen flowing to the muscles. Muscular strength is when you obtain a great amount of force for a small amount of time. This type of exercise normally includes upper body bench pressing for your pectorals and possibly tricep muscles. Muscular endurance is the ability to exert a lower level of force in a greater amount of time. A good way to portray this type of exercise is through doing sit ups for about sixty seconds. Flexibility is the full movement of muscle around the joint and a good way of exemplifying this is through the sit and reach test. Finally, body composition is the ratio of body mass to fat or adipose tissue mass. This measures muscle, bones and organs.

Here is an example of a work out routine that I have done on numerous occasions. I warm up for ten minutes, then follow that with squats for fifteen reps. Then I do push ups for ten reps and leg curls for fifteen reps. I follow that with ten seated row reps and fifteen lunges on each side. Crunches for twenty-five reps come next and then fifteen leg extension reps. Then I go into twenty-five cave raises and ten reps of wide grip pull-downs. I do fifteen leg curls and follow that with fifteen reverse crunches. I then do ten reps of triceps pushdowns and follow that with ten seated dumbbell bicep curls. I finally end my routine by cooling down for ten to thirty minutes with a walk or just stretching.

Lastly, an easy way to measure exercise intensity is to know your max heart rate. This is done by subtracting your age from two-hundred and twenty. The ideal range for getting rid of fat or adipose tissue during exercise is to maintain a sixty to seventy percent of your max heart rate. Training zones can then be determined by taking percentages of this maximal number. An inexpensive heart rate monitor can be purchased from any sports store and will make understanding your heart rate quite easy.

The work out routine that I have done has helped me to become a healthier and fitter person. I tend to do this about every other day to give my body a days rest. Of course this routine is geared toward my body, so you can feel free to change the reps and amount of time you work out according to your age, gender and condition. No matter if you choose to do an exercise or workout routine like mine or form your own, I strongly encourage you to have some sort of routine and to remember to incorporate the five aspects of exercise so that you are working out every part of your body.

Southern California and Fitness Expert Chris McCombs is a well known Personal Trainer in Laguna Niguel and you can learn more about him at his Laguna Niguel Personal Training website.