Tips For Your 2012 : Exercise Tips [Part 1]

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Well 2012 is nearly with us.  I know that with the holidays here we’re all slammed right now getting ready to celebrate with our friends and family – good for us! But of course, following on nicely after this EVERY year is the stepping into a new year and a desire to make it the best yet for ourselves…  The resolutions are set and typically these include getting in the best shape ever.  Well its a new start and therefore I wanted to give you my 5 Big Tips for your 2012 covering Exercise/Workout Tips, Health Tips, Diet & nutrition Tips & Mindset Tips.  So lets kick off with part A – Exercise!

Ok, there are a million different tips flying around the Internet, the gym, Facebook, your local health club and so on…

But here are 5 I feel are essential and will give you the best results if understood and used in your workouts.

I hope you like these, let me know your thoughts.

Cheers,

Tris

TIP 1 – Its been said a thousand times (by me and others I know) but to burn the most calories you must do COMPOUND exercises.  These are exercises that require multiple muscles to work together during the move.  don’t get me wrong, isolation exercises where typically one muscle is worked like the bicep curl for example a re great as part of your workout but compound exercises like kettlebell swings, Thrusters, Deadlifts, Squats, Pull Ups etc etc are the ones that will have the greatest benefit on your body and fitness results.

TIP 2 – Slow down! A typical exercise should be performed with control – allowing you to work on a pattern of 2-1-3 (basically 2 seconds concentric – 1 second isometric – 3 seconds essentric) – or to put it simply lets imagine a squat move;  I like to squat down to the lowest position for 3 seconds, hold at the bottom for a second then explode up but control my move to the start position for 2-3 seconds.  This is controlled.  If your going really fast or swinging weights then you risk injury and you cannot truly handle the weight your lifting.  this applies to men and women.  In fact all of these tips will.

TIP 3 – Lift what you can handle! – many times the ego gets the better of people.  They lift more than they should and do more than they should also.  Make sure you pick weights that make you work but don’t have you wobbling all over the gym trying to simply hold them!  Once you can cope with a weight, your muscles are used to it, and your comfortable, then move up.  You’ll surpass all the people who are choosing weights for vanity and as they get injured youll be lifting and working with the weights they first struggled with…

TIP 4 – Variety.  Its essential that you choose different exercises in your program (or get me or your trainer to devise workouts that mix up exercises to stimulate muscles correctly) – thus helping you break through plateaus.  Your body is designed to adapt to stimuli over time, if you mix up your exercises your body will keep being forced to really work and your results will be the type you really want.

TIP 5 – Whats right for one person is not always right for you.  I see a lot of people go to gyms or start workouts and they tend to see a person doing something and simply copy.  I understand if no one is around to give advice or you are new to working out that this is tempting.  But understand you are capable of doing all the exercises that are out there, but that does not mean you should.  Get a good trainer or one of my products or workouts at my video classroom and choose a goal, choose a path for yourself and train for YOU – you’ll follow certain exercises and systems that will take you to your goal and get results, another person will follow their own goal.  You must have a plan of attack and a goal when you train or all the exercises in the world will mean nothing and be a waste if there is not a plan of attack when choosing and using exercises specifically for YOU and YOUR GOALS.

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