Fitness program goals for you includes: to maintain enough exercise to be vigorous, have better cardiovascular health, to lessen risks of strokes and blood clots, to think better, to sleep, to have better sex, to feel better, keep your weight in the healthiest range it can be, prevent weight related medical conditions, and finally perhaps to look better! Here are some tips, from a health perspective, to help you improve your exercise routine.
Breast Health When Exercising
1.Breast health with exercise means wear enough support to prevent jostling, and enough padding to prevent bruising. We never suggest you exercise without a bra. Try styles that distribute your weight evenly through your shoulders.
Post Workout Fueling Means Fluid and Fats, Not Simple Sugars
2 Weight loss is not going to be possible if you balance that extra energy expenditure against calorie intake because you are hungrier. Are you eating more just because you exercise? Are you shifting to more sugar and carbs as recovery desires fuel your post workout choices? Those hidden calories when cooking, shopping or snacking. For those trying to lose weight, you still have to cut your calories when you exercise unless you dramatically increase your exercise. You will burn more calories in a day with additional muscle, so there are weight benefits to any exercise.
Be sure you get advice on how much Vitamin D and calcium intake you need. Bone health maintenance cannot be taken for granted. Meal plans heavily leaning towards severe calorie restrictions or too much protein by food percentage have been associated with bone losses of up to 10%, even over a relatively short amount of time. Bone loss may be difficult to regain if you have to keep your calories low. Get a consultation, sometimes bone turnover can be determined with testing.
Some overall weight changes can have to do with the body composition. Fat weighs less than muscle, and if you are not losing on the scale, but your clothing is fitting better you can possibly be gaining muscle faster than you are loosing fat. You can miss estimate how much body fat you have if you are just judging by your look, or your outfits or even with over the counter pinch tests. Only accurate measurements of your fat and muscle mass will tell you that, and if you go by the scale or inaccurate measurements you may have been just plain dehydrated when you weighed? We recommend Body Composition study with DXA at Women’s Health Practice. You may have lots of health benefits of exercise beyond your bathroom scale. You may be gaining weight but decreasing fat! You therefore may also measure your success in inches lost.
Sport Specific Exercising
Are you improving your body composition with muscle and the right sort of muscle for your preferred sport or exercise? The type of exercise you do will affect if you are actually able to make the changes mentioned above, so you may have to switch up the routine. And hidden muscle imbalances, like your right being stronger than your left should be corrected. Mobility, flexibility, active range strengthening is what is ideal for all sports.
Are you body shaping, when it comes to the last few pounds Coolsculpting may help achieve six-pack definition in your abs and slimmer thighs than you will ever achieve with diet and exercise if genetically you always keep a few pounds there.
Running can be hard on joints especially knees. Make sure you have good technique with a smooth gait, proper shoes with a good sole, and during the day good posture, and the right amount of stretching after you train.
It is possible to get in a rut if you only swim, or only bike, or only lift. Do switch up your exercise routine so that your getting the most benefit, like everything else, once we get used to a routine we probably are able to accomplish it more efficiently, but in this case efficiently means with fewer calories being burned.
Weight loss is difficult through exercise alone
Many people overestimate calories burned during exercise and underestimate their calories consumed. Weight loss comes down to burning more calories than you consume. One pound of fat contains 3500 calories for some, but 4000-7000 calories for other . To lose one pound, one must burn 3500 (4000-7000) more calories than consumed. That means cutting at least 500 calories per day to lose one pound per week. Be patient! If weight loss is your goal, recognize the weight loss probably won’t come off with exercise alone. Try keeping a food diary to keep track of what goes in, it may surprise you! Keeping your metabolism up is also something you can do with nutritional adjustment.
Use measurements as much as the scale. Healthy weight means healthy waist to hip ratios and healthy body fat composition. We all know that muscle weighs more than fat. Even though the scale may show a higher number, building muscle increases metabolism, so you burn more calories throughout the day. If you would like to see more results with weight loss, continue strengthening exercises to build muscle while increasing your aerobic exercise to burn more calories. Men should be under 1 and women under 0.8 to have the ideal waist to hip ratio.
The Arms You Deserve
Resistance training alone will not firm underarms but there are treatments that can work such as the Venus Legacy, the CoolSculpting or PelleFirm Body Treatment at Hada Cosmetic Medicine. If you also want to have healthier tighter skin on your arms you can benefit from lasers as well.
We cannot measure the success of our exercise program through the results seen on the bathroom scales. Don’t let the scale dictate how good you feel about exercising. If you are looking for additional measurements of success, beyond even testing body fat composition, look at the physiological measures of blood pressure, blood sugar, your cholesterol, and your pulse rate. Don’t be too hard on yourself and stay objective about the changes in your body and the benefits exercising has on your bone density, cardiovascular system, mood, and body composition.
Our bodies become more efficient at a particular activity the more we do it. This may mean the same activity will burn fewer calories after your body has adapted to it. Try switching up your routine to continue gain fitness, loose weight, and keep your exercise regimen fun.
Exercise Minimums
Exercise amount guidelines vary if you are trying to be fit, trying to be an athlete, trying to be strong, trying to lose weight or trying to prevent obesity. Which is why when we discuss how much exercise to get, it will seem like you are always reading something new. The 2008 Federal Guidelines for exercise is at least 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity. The Institute of Medicine suggests 60 minutes a day which is 420 minutes per week of moderate-intensity activity is the only way to prevent obesity! Harvard School of Medicine broke the tie with a 2010 JAMA publication stating that while the Feds are on the right track to prevent chronic diseases, ,the IOM guidelines were best for weight control.
It’s tough to know how exercise is going to translate into the right amount of fitness, the ideal weight range, and your healthiest body shaping while maintaining healthy bones, joints, breasts and waist. If you suffer injury, or are slow to recover, you need additional adjustment to fitness plans.
