subject: Don't Sabotage Your Workout Program By Making A Rookie Mistake [print this page] Don't Sabotage Your Workout Program By Making A Rookie Mistake
Don't make the rookie mistake of doing too much too often. This causes overuse injuries. You become injured and can't workout. You are either sore all the time, you get discouraged and quit or you get bored. I see it all of the time.
Here is the scenario. A person decides to get back in shape so they decide to run 3 miles a day. From the repetitive motion, they get shin splints or a stress fracture from the same stride, day in, day out, 7 days a week. A second scenario is the guy that decides he's going to get in shape by weight lifting so he does heavy benching, curling and leg pressing daily and ends up hurting himself at worst and being constantly sore at best.
People who are new to exercise or those returning to it after being sedentary for a long time will succeed if they adopt a program that increases in difficulty and intensity incrementally and that employs techniques that do not always push them to failure. Here are 3 rules to live by:1) Use a circuit training program that trains your whole body. In this way you'll both burn fat and build muscle at the same time. Not only will you burn more fat than steady-state cardio, you'll avoid burn out and the overuse injuries that often plague beginners.2) Do 3-4 total body circuits per week. Your body does not build muscle during exercise, it does so during recovery. Without time to recover you will break down instead of building up. Also, watch yor calories. You will sabotage yourself if you don't eat healthily. Do not attempt to out exercise your diet.3) No heavy weight lifting! Heavy benchpressing, squatting, curling, etc., will only get you one thing. INJURY! Using a sensible total body circuit workout program will safely give you the results you are looking for.Get your free sample Turbulence Training Fat Burning Workout at MYCOMMANDFITNESS.COM http://www.articlesbase.com/wellness-articles/dont-sabotage-your-workout-program-by-making-a-rookie-mistake-3531074.html
