Are Your Gym Workouts Providing The Required Results?

Question:

"I have been going to the health club for a while now. I really want to tone up and bulk up my pecs and arms, but don't believe I am making much improvements, even though I put in lots of effort whilst I am at the fitness centre.  Can you prescribe any specific exercises that could help me?"

Answer:

Soon after becoming certified as a Personal Trainer I took a job in a fitness club. I had a job there for a number of years and greeted the same individuals day-in-day-out. What amazed me most of all was how few people actually appeared to have advanced their body shape and fitness levels in that 2-year timescale! I would go as far as to remark that 90% or more of the members who trained regularly in the fitness club never developed any sizeable developments in their size, body composition or fitness!

Let me tell you now that the purpose of cv fitness isn't simply to use more fats. Weight training isn't simply about toning muscle. If you hope to observe significant developments then you need to think about how your chosen exercises are going to Impact on your body.

Did you know that with the correct types of cardiovascular exercise you can encourage your body to use additional fat mass when you are not working out? Your body literally turns into a fats burning machine! On top of that, your weight training should change if you are hoping to build lean mass, become stronger or become more commanding. The exercise program needs to be different because the goal is different. What's more the body transforms in different ways to different exercise methods.

The kicker is, there are recognised work-out approaches that need to be included into any exercise program. Without going into vast amounts of depth, the 6 principles are: individual requirements, progressive overload, specificity, rest and recovery, the FITT principle (frequency, intensity, time and type) and reversibility.

I don't insist you to know each thing there is to know about every one of them, but trained Personal Trainers will know how to merge them into a training routine. If you don't know how to structure exercise regimes using these principles in mind then your working-out is not likely to be sufficient.

Take 'progressive overload' and 'reversibility' as examples. Most people go into the gym and do the same program year in day out. But this will not encourage improvements in the body. Worse still, it won't even allow you to sustain you existing level of fitness levels because your body will become used to the programme and your fitness will begin to drop!

I am not declaring that everyone reviewing this post needs to work with a Personal Trainer, but there is an element of education needed to structure an effective exercise routine.

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