Exercise And Weight Loss For Women Part 1

Exercise for Beginners

Exercise for beginners can be very confusing especially with the variety of available resources pulling individuals this way and that way. However, it must be emphasized that when it comes to beginner exercises, the primary considerations are safety and enjoyment of the workout routines. Otherwise, you will find yourself dealing with avoidable injuries and quitting the routines very early into the plan. And what good is there in that for your mind and body?

Preliminary Activities

As much as possible, you should get your doctor's go-signal to engage in exercise especially if you have pre-existing medical conditions like heart disease and diabetes. You want to favor your body even if you are engaging in exercise for beginners. Also, you must have the right clothes and footwear for the exercises you will be doing. Again, this is to ensure your safety, not to mention make you comfortable while doing your exercises. Last but not least, you have to set your exercise goals. You will have to ask yourself about the whats, whens, whys, and hows of your exercise goals, which will guide and motivate your efforts along the way.

Proper Exercises

For beginners, you must take it slowly but surely because you want your body to acclimatize itself to its new routines, hence, ensuring its safety from injuries. Thus, you will start with a full body resistance training regimen and a basic cardio program. And it is good to let your muscles recover by having rest days.

You may follow the following weeklong exercise for beginners' routine:

Monday - Cardio exercises for 20-30 minutes of whole body stretches

Tuesday - Full body strength training with stretches

Wednesday - Cardio exercises for 20-30 minutes combined with an abdominal workout and stretches

Thursday - Rest day or basic yoga done at home

Friday - Full body strength training with stretches

Saturday - Cardio exercises for 30 minutes and stretches

Sunday - Reward yourself by engaging in a favorite activity except those harmful to the body

You will notice that the exercise routines are made on an alternating basis. This is for two reasons - you want to give your body a rest from stress and you can ward off boredom from the same exercises performed day in and day out.

Proper Precautions

If you will closely observe the abovementioned exercise for beginners weeklong routine, you have to perform stretches whether you are on cardio or body strength training. This is because stretching before and after the exercise proper gives your body time to warm up to prevent injuries and cool down to aid in recovery.

Basically, you stretch your muscles going up. Thus, the order will be toes, ankles, knees, hips, spine, shoulders, neck, elbows, wrists and fingers. You can, however, just do calisthenics as warm-up exercises and stretching as cool down exercises. Just remember to get your heart rate up and running for warm-up exercises and down and normalizing for cool-down exercises.

Indeed, exercise for beginners can be easy to do. Keep in mind that in any activity, starting out is almost always the hard part but when you start to reap the benefits of exercise and you are happy with the results, you will be motivated to proceed to the intermediate and advanced levels.

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