Follow These 7 Steps to Achieve Any Fitness Goal

Follow These 7 Steps to Achieve Any Fitness Goal

1. Eat a healthy, balanced diet

While this may seem the most obvious on the surface, it's the only thing that most people choose to neglect all over for some reason. What you put in your about is about 75% of your fitness program; QUIT neglect !!! If you are looking to gain some muscle mass, then you will want to eat more calories than you consume and if you want to lose weight, then burn more calories than you consume. You also want to make sure that you eat low glycemic foods (foods that spike your blood sugar in the blood). This is a bigger problem than people eating too much fatty food because a lot of the time, these foods are labeled "fat free"

2. Weight / Strength Train

To achieve any fitness goal if weight loss or muscle gain, you should be lifting weights at least twice a week, but preferably three. People looking to gain muscle should ultimately make their way up to 4-5 days per week resistance training. Building muscle will help increase your metabolic rate to help you burn more fat! Weight training also helps develop strength, improve balance, increase the strength of mind and help you see better!

3. Sleep

Our body needs sleep to retrieve events of that day. If you do not get at least seven hours of sleep a night, you will not recover properly and you affect the physical and mental function the next day. Lack of sleep can also lead to increased appetite and unwanted weight gain.

4. Drink water

A very easy way to determine how much water you should drink is dividing your weight by 2 and this number gives you the ounces of water you should drink each day. For example, if you weigh 180 pounds, you should drink 90 ounces of water daily. Your body is at least 50 to 60% water so as not to deprive your body of half her makeup!

5. Improve Flexibility

Improve flexibility can be done a couple of different ways, but the way was the most effective for me is yoga. I do not do yoga as much as I probably should, but I always had my best results when I implemented in my yoga fitness program 2-3 times a week. Yoga is also great for improving core strength and stability. Stretching is another good way to keep your muscles flexible and strong. Static stretching should never be done before you work! This can increase your risk of injury! Opt for dynamic / active warm-up before work on static stretching and after your workout.

6. Cardio

Most people understand the cardiovascular benefits of work and that this should be done 5-6 days a week, ideally. The fitness goal, I want to emphasize here is the muscle winners. You still need to do cardio grouping ALL !!! Just because you are trying to gain weight and put on muscle does not mean that you must stop taking care of your heart! Now this does not mean that you should do cardio 5-6 days a week. Doing cardio does not result in "losing gains", if you eat more calories than you burn, you will still gain weight. The bonus to do cardio 2-3 days a week while inflating is that you can fight fat accumulation to a degree and still put on muscle! The scale may not move as fast as you want, but A) the scale does not say much about the history of your progress and B) what good does gain weight, it is not all muscle mass that accompanies it?

7. Supplementation

Supplementation is probably the last piece of the puzzle. You absolutely need to have six categories above fingertips before seeking to take supplements. If you can not be compatible with all six categories above, then supplements end up being a waste of money for you, for two reasons. First, the supplements are intended to supplement a fitness program, not replace any parts that can fail. Second, if you are not consistent with anything else, then you will not be in agreement with your supplements and supplements should be taken regularly to have the desired effect.