Posts Tagged ‘intensity’

New Year!

Monday, January 11th, 2010

As I’m sure you have heard before there is no time like the present, and how true that is.  With 2010 here it’s time for the excuses to turn into action in terms of getting in shape.  This is never an easy road for any of us, either a beginner or someone who is an advance athlete.  I find for myself it’s easier to take small steps as I like to let my body gain from the least amount possible, saving the extreme things with diet and training to throw in when my results start to slow down.

For example, I cleaned my diet up cutting all junk food out except one or two items a week and then in a few weeks I will remove those also.  Before, I ate out 3 or 4 meals per day now it’s two per week.  When I stop eating out I then will also get strict in the type of carbs I’m eating.  With training I started cardio 5 nights per week for 20 minutes and then in a few weeks it will go to 30 minutes per session and then later twice per day.

So as you see I just keep raising the intensity when I feel my body is use to what I’m doing.  Another good thing when this is your body adapts and doesn’t over train as easy if you jumped right in 110%.  Remember, you don’t need luck because you will get that look as 2010 is your year to be driven and focused.

Time Crunch

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

If you feel that you’re always in a rush to get through your workout and at the end you just don’t have enough time to do cardio, then I have a suggestion for you.  As you might know to increase the intensity of a workout you can do several different things like, cut your rest time down between set’s, add more weight or increase your reps.  You can also do supersets (going from one exercise to the second exercise without any rest).  Instead try this tip.  Pick three exercises for a body part, i.e. dumbbell bench press, incline barbell bench press and dips.  Now you will go from the dumbbells to the incline then to dips without any rest period and after you did all three exercises get onto the precore or treadmill or bike and keeping the intensity up do 2 minutes.  After the 2 minutes of cardio repeat the 3 exercises again and then get back onto the cardio after.  If you do this thru your whole workout then you will not only increase the intensity but have a good cardio session with less time spent in the gym.

Train Hard!