Fitness Tips for Women

Exercise is essential, most people will certainly agree. Exercise is not only perfect for losing weight, it is also good for keeping a reasonable body weight, for giving a boost to your metabolism and also for burning those unwanted excess calories. Exercise also revs up the heart and the lungs making them more efficient.

Aside from these benefits, exercise also strengthens the bones and keeps people looking good and feeling good about themselves. Exercise also gives people the stamina to enable them to keep up with the pace of their modern lifestyles.

Unfortunately, not many people chose to do what is good for them. Most people can't even decide what to do when waking up in the morning - exercise or press the snooze button one more time!

You will find the following tips helpful in reaching and maintaining the ideal body weight. Simply incorporate one or two of these tips at a time to more easily update your exercise routine.

Do not worry whether the exercise routine is perfect - just stay committed. Ideally, you want to exercise three to five times a week for 20-60 minutes. However, this is not required in the real world. Don't get frustrated by aiming for the ideal when you know that it is utterly impossible. If you manage to train two times a week for twenty minutes per session, that will be fine.

It is best to focus on doing what you knows you can do than to reproach yourself for having not done enough. Start from this point and then progress over time. You will feel a level of success for having stayed committed.

Prioritise weight lifting - many women do cardio exercises before weight lifting. The problem with this is that it is possible to miss a critical component of the routine having spent all your energy on cardio training. If you do this, you may not enjoy the results you hoped for even after devoting long hours to the gym. This can be avoided by reversing the order and will guarantee a visible positive outcome.

Remember to monitor your heart rate. It is recommended that you should exercise at 75-85% of your maximum heart rate. Many people stick with just aiming for only 50% of their maximum heart rate. To ensure that one is working out at the prescribed target heart rate, use a heart rate monitor or any exercise equipment with this feature.

To avoid dreading having to go to the gym, work out for only an hour or less. Focusing on the exercise and the overall goal will make each work out session more and more efficient.

Have some sort of social aspect to your fitness. Being in a fitness community may be the important element lacking in your training program. Friendly support can do amazing wonders and should not be underestimated. It could be useful to train in a gym once in while if one tends to workout at home. One can also try classes that you may have always found interesting such as yoga, pilates or Zumba! You could also join clubs such as a walking club or a running club.

Pep talk yourself. One should not pressure yourself too much; rather, it is best to congratulate yourself and give yourself words of encouragement in between exercises. One should never forget to give yourself positive feedback!