Important principles when choosing or starting fitness training program
During my years as a personal trainer in my gym, my team and I encounter quite a few highly motivated and determined training’s beginners. These new training were expecting that now with new program it will give them the magic that will change their bodies.
I found myself explaining many trainees that there is no secret training programs, you just need to keep several important principles in the training program, it is more important how you do the exercise, than what exercise to do.
Appropriate training program
Note that you are not professional athletes, the training program should be adapt to you and not the opposite. Before you begin the program set yourself realistic expectations of how many times a week are you willing to devote to training and how long each time.
Your answer must match not only for tomorrow or the next day or another month or two, but another year or 10 years, lifetime. The key word is perseverance, so you must found the right conditions that would cause you to persist in physical activity for a lifetime.
Listen to your body and adjust the initial training program to your starting level. I met quite a few highly motivated trainees that had to stop training all together after few months of training due to injuries resulting from overdoing the workout.
Good training program must include a gradual raising in the effort level
No matter what level of fitness you are, to feel the change you need to make a change, if you or your goal is to lose weight and you start to plan going five miles at a steady pace each day, at the beginning of the program you will see a change, but after month or two you would not understand why you continue to walk five miles a day and not see any change.
You always need to do more than what you have done to date in order to see the changes. For example: change of walking time, changing pace, change weight in strength training, change number of sets you are doing and more. You need to make a change all the time. The change should be gradual so that it is not too fast or you might get hurt, and not too slow or you will not see results.
Monitor and track your training program
Tracking and managing your workout allows you to monitor your training program and ensure that the changes you make will always be greater. If you will not write how many miles you walked, what was the walking pace or rate of heartbeat or how many exercise sets and in how much weight you did, you will not be able to draw any conclusion regarding the continuation of training and it’s effectiveness.
Rest in exercise program
Remember the body needs rest to build itself. Exercise is a way to create stress on our bodies. Stress is a stimulus that the body needs to change itself, but our bodies need the rest to build itself and improve its current situation. If you do not rest, you will increase the risk of injury increases.
How you perform the exercises it’s what counts not the program!!