Mandy’s Top 7 Tips For Newbies

Mandy’s Top 7 Tips For Newbies

1)      Know your limits!  You have to start sometime, but don’t push yourself so hard at the beginning that you injure yourself or end up burning out. Pace yourself and start off slow. Set small goals for each week/month and focus on that.

2)      Eat Healthy! It’s pointless to kill yourself at the gym and then go home and eat a container of ice cream. Just like your exercise, set small goals for your nutrition.  Here are some examples of small goals:

-          Week 1 - eat a healthy breakfast every day

-          Week 2 – continue to eat your healthy breakfast and now add a mid-morning snack

-          Week 3 – continue with the breakfast and snack, but now add lunch.

My idea of healthy is lean meats, vegetables, fruit (not too much if you want to lose weight), nuts and seeds.

3)      Warm-up and Cool down! Start each workout with a warm-ups. Walking, jogging, jumping rope and active stretches. Cool down with static stretching and walking.

4)      Recover! If you need a day off to recover, take it! Sometimes your body needs a break. Just make sure that you are skipping days just because. Listen to your body.

5)      Log your workouts! How do you know where you want to be if you don’t know where you are. Write down all of your workouts. Studies show that people who write down their workouts are more likely to keep at it.

6)      Work with a trainer! Learn from a pro. They will teach you a lot of new cool thinks and chances are if you are spend the money for help you won’t quit.

7)      Find a workout Partner! It is more fun to workout with a friend and  you are less likely to skip a workout if someone is meeting you.

 Enjoy Life – Workout!

Mandy

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