Push-Ups or Bench Press?

Incorporating fitness into your life has many benefits, if you put together a fitness program that includes exercise, nutrition, and proper rest the quality of your life will improve. You will feel better and have more energy, you will be motivated to get out and do things.

Fitness can be a daily routine, taking as little as 30 minutes to an hour of your day to bring you enormous benefits. Yet many people think that regular exercise means joining a gym or starting a home workout program. While these can be a part of your exercise, neither have to be your sole method. There are sports and recreations like biking and swimming, as well as hikes and club dancing, that can be part of your fitness plan. Here are some tips to begin a varied program where your time commitment is key to daily exercise that is anything but routine.

So you made a choice of getting into shape. Possibly looking to lose weight, or wanting to add muscle to your body. The problem is with so many routines out there the question is where to start.

Can’t get on equipment since they are all occupied. Crazy and very loud music. Too many people socializing and not exercising. Intimidating. Expensive. Confusing contracts. Driving to the gym. Buying comfortable but expensive exercise gear. And so much more! These are the common things that most people complain about when going to a gym… and you know what… I was one of them! Then I decided to stay home and workout instead.

There are five health related components of fitness. These are cardiovascular fitness (Aerobic, Anaerobic), Muscular Endurance, Muscular Strength, Flexibility and Body composition. Knowing and understanding the various components of fitness will help you design and practice a quality exercise program.

Kettlebells are equally at home forging a stronger, fitter cardiovascular system while positively impacting the stability and flexibility across the body’s joints. Sounds too good to be true, let me tell you, kettlebell training is the REAL DEAL. One of the major benefits for the novice kettlebeller is that training can be done in the comfort of your own home, garden or out in the park. Possessing a kettlebell can save you serious money as there is simply no need for expensive gym fees. A single or pair of kettlebells is all you require!

A dynamic or active warmup is a series of continuous movements designed to loosen and warm up the body before working out. See how you can better prepare your body for a workout.

If you have a tight schedule but would like to get some exercise in each day, then home cardio workouts are just for you. Sure, you could become a member at the nearest health club, but you wouldn’t have the privacy that you do at home. You will also get to save money since you won’t have to pay monthly membership costs.

We all want to burn calories faster so as to remain lean and healthy and perhaps eat just a little more than we should without getting in trouble. Here’s some good news: we all burn calories, all the time. You don’t have to be on the treadmill to burn a handful of calories, because you’re burning them right now, even as you read this. You burn calories even while sleeping, and that is what is called your RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate).

Published studies have clearly proven that the presence of exercise is a key to a longer and smarter life. When you look at our history it makes sense. For most of our existence we had to move to get food and survive, so human beings have evolved to move up to 12 miles a day. Unfortunately these days many people measure distance in terms of getting to the car or bus, or from the couch to the fridge.

It seems that most people who start a workout routine have no clue how to get going. They either try too hard then get injured and quit, or they don’t put enough time to see any results. In this article I’m going to show you the number one biggest obstacle to avoid so you can see great benefits from your workout routine.

A great, easy and inexpensive type of exercise that can amazingly bring a lot of benefit for our health is walking. Unfortunately there are a lot of people overlooking the power of walking. A lot of them are completely unaware of how powerful three brisk walks per week can do for their emotional, physical and mental wellbeing.