Planning your workouts and exercises can be just as important as doing the exercises themselves. Lots of people go to the gym and just pick something to do. Maybe it is starting with some cardio and then doing a few weight training exercises. Yes, that is great you are getting some exercise in and you should be very proud of yourself for that. But there can be more to your workout that will help you in getting better results.
How can I get more out of my workouts, you ask. No matter how your day is, at some point planning is involved. Well, working out is set the same way.
So let's say you know you will workout four days this week. In those four days you want to have a goal of getting your full body trained and your cardio in. Let's break this up to say you will be working out Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Now you could have another combination in mind but we will use this one to explain this. So in those days let's say you will have about an hour to hour and half to workout. Depending on the level of training experience you have, this schedule could vary. On Monday you will get a full body workout in. On Tuesday you will get a good cardio workout in. Thursday you can do that full body workout again and Friday do cardio again. In a sense that is very simple and basic, but I think you get the point.
You can now start the week off knowing that you have a plan to workout for four days and what you will be doing on each of those days. Don't you feel a little bit relieved that you don't have to think about what you will be doing when you get to the gym? This is also a big motivation for you to know that for four days this week you will be working out.
So, in a sense you can stop there and go about your week with the plan of action in place. Or, you can really dig in deeper and plan out each day's workout, what exercises will you do on the full body days, with the resistance levels and sets and reps in order. And on the cardio days you can set the levels up with which type of cardio you will do. So now you have motivated yourself even more to get this plan done.
Well that could be it, right? Sure, but what is going to happen next week when you go to the gym? You could follow the same plan that you set for the previous week. There is no problem with that but you want to make sure that after four to six weeks of doing one plan that you change it up. And that could be anything from increasing the weight and lowering the reps to switching the exercise type that you have chosen.
So now you have your workout schedule completed. Again, there is another thing you can do to make life even easier on your schedule. This is where you can get a calendar and/or your organizer out. I like both for beginners. Why? Because one, you can look at your calendar at home and see the results of your completed days and week and two, with the organizer you can view how your workouts fit into your days.
What will you get from this? Results, results, and more results. That is right! With making the schedule I am sure you can see that you will make the time to workout and be more organized with them. And the most important thing is that you will be much happier with yourself and your exercise time.
David Mendel
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