Tips For Gym Beginners – Part 1
C.D. Mohatta
May 18, 2009
A good gym regime is spread over six days. Basically three days of weight training and three days of cardio-vascular exercises. Lets construct a typical gym schedule for a beginner or intermediate level of exercise. Monday – Chest, shoulders and triceps. Tuesday – cardio, wednesday – legs, thursday – cardio, friday – back and biceps, and saturday – cardio again. Rest on sundays. One may shift shoulders and triceps to wednesday along with legs if chest workouts take too long. Workout should be done typically for 50 minutes to 60 minutes depending on one's energy levels. Cardio-vascular exercises can include 15-20 minutes each of using the treadmill, cross trainer, stepper, and cycle. Doing weight training every day will not allow your muscles to relax. Hence, a one day gap (where you do cardio instead) is necessary to support your muscle growth. This has been suggested by physical training experts too. The best time to visit the gym is morning. But then finally it is up to you. Any time is a good time to exercise. Make sure you eat / drink something before you begin exercising. A banana or two is good enough. If you like to drink protein shakes, make sure you drink the same after gym and not before.
If you are a regular at the gym, you must be aware of the importance of warm-up and cool-down during exercise. Actually these need not be restricted to the gym. One should warm up before starting any exercise and do some cool-down exercises too afterwards.
Make sure you drink water at regular intervals in the gym. Some people prefer mixing glucose based powders in their water bottles. Or some people drink sports energy drinks like gatorade. Some people prefer drinking lime or orange flavored energy boosters. These drinks give you more of energy and help keeping you hydrated during your workouts. Please continue reading this article in part 2.
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If you are a regular at the gym, you must be aware of the importance of warm-up and cool-down during exercise. Actually these need not be restricted to the gym. One should warm up before starting any exercise and do some cool-down exercises too afterwards.
Make sure you drink water at regular intervals in the gym. Some people prefer mixing glucose based powders in their water bottles. Or some people drink sports energy drinks like gatorade. Some people prefer drinking lime or orange flavored energy boosters. These drinks give you more of energy and help keeping you hydrated during your workouts. Please continue reading this article in part 2.
The author likes to write on health related topics. The author also writes text messages and advises for internet and social networking content like myspace quotes and personality quizzes.
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