Okay, just look around, there are certain people who can manage the time for routine exercises and endorse the advantage of physical fitness, which way he or she can proves what a fit person can be. A kind of person I called as fitness model. No matter how busy their life is, they just stay fit by doing scheduled fitness exercises

The fitness models embody the concept of physically fit person. In fact, this very reason that makes most people believe that fitness model is the most appealing and healthiest people in the whole world. They become an epitome of vigor life, health, and beauty.

The reality is, every body could become a fitness model! Well, as long as you commit to your self to be healthy by balancing your daily activities with fitness exercises, and can projecting the benefit of your physical exercises to your daily life. Even better, capable of attracting other to follow your sample, that’s truly what a fitness models are about.

So, if you really have the gut to become a fitness model, here’re some tips on become one of them:

1. Understand that fitness is not just about body figure only.
Our problem today is most of us admired and look only to physical appearance. Our conception of ideal male figures are having wonderful six pack abs and muscular biceps and triceps, and for females are sexy and thin. Many people doing much effort in exercises not for the reason of to be healthy, but because want to look like fitness models they saw on magazines, posters, and television.

So, incase you want to be a fitness model, then you should change the perspective and start your exercise to have a healthier you. Forget about your physically body figure, it’s just an added bonus of being fit and healthy.

2. Believe in the saying, ‘You are what you eat’
It is a fact that your body reflecting what kind of food you eat. So, fitness model well aware of this fact, and maintain a healthy diet on daily basis. Even our body will also reflect what kind of activities that we have in our life. In other word, unhealthy or healthy habits will be reflected directly to our physical appearance.

3. Live a healthy lifestyle
Since the ultimate goal of being fit is to have a healthy life, so as fitness model will automatically endorse a healthy life style. And these habits reflected down to daily activities, diet menus, and of course scheduled exercises. So, if your life categorized as un healthy, you will never become a fitness model.

4. Have a ‘positive self image’
This is important one if your goal is become a fitness model. You must have positive image on your self; on your physical appearance. You have to love your own body for more or less, no matter of what ever happen to your life. Never wish to have other body since you know it’s not yours. Don’t waste your time by considering that your life would be better if only you have those six pack abs you saw on television. With this positive image of your self, you can gain your own respect, which will generate respects from others also. Even some people will admire the positive image of your fitness, and motivated to follow your sample.

So, the key of being a fitness model isn’t about physical attributes only. The most important thing is the reflected beauty of your physical fitness can radiate other people to follow your step to be healthy and physically fit.

2.On bended knees
To avoid injury during your sport activities, always bend your knee when turning or landing from high jump. 75% ACL injuries occurs when sport players turning or landing. If our knee bent or not straight, the risk being injured is highly reduced according  to Journal of American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons report.

3.Cool down
According to Dr. Dave Janda, we have to stay hydrate and cool during any sport activities. Make sure that the combined humidity and temperature is less than 160. Heatstroke isn’t something that we can easily get away like headache, you know.

4.Get the proper equipment
Make sure that you equipped with proper gears. Unfit and ill sized sport gear can caused training injuries.  So, be generous to your self and buy a good quality sport equipment to support your exercises or sport activites.

5.Do it the right way
Good sport equipment wont help you if you have a bad technique on your sport or exercises. Find professional trainer, follow the right technique, and stick to your trainer invaluable advises.

6.Warm up properly
Remember to warm up your body before doing any kind of sport activities. And make sure your warm up support the need of the sport you gonna plays. If your sport will require you to move in multiple directions, so your warm up activities should prepare your muscles to do so. Move back ward, sideways, forward, or all motions you might doing. Just make sure your muscles prepared for the sport.

7.Have yourself filmed
Another way to monitor your progress and development in any sport activities is by filming you in session. We know that camera does not lie. Base on that film you can seek advise from your trainer for better development.

8.Loosen the shoulders.
Pay special attention to your shoulders. Your shoulder rotator cuff can easily injured and shut down your shoulders function.  make sure that you did your warm up for your shoulder properly, and the msot effective is doing some stretching for both shoulders.

9.take An early dip
If your sport or exercise including a session of swimming, prefer it done as early as possible. Well, the reason is simple; the earlier you start your swimming session means less people in the pool, which also means less every other thing in that very pool.

10. Protect yourself
If your sport activities including high risk actions, protect yourself properly. This mean including to wear a proper mouth-guard to protect your teeth. Make sure that it well suit your mouth, and if nessecary you shall buy custom made mouth guard to protect your teeth and smile in the long run. According to UNC at Chapel Hill study, custom fitted mouth guard reduces the injury risk by 82%.

11. Smooth out your tendon
Ever heard of ultra sound needle therapy? This procedure mean to smoothens your bone, break up calcification, and fixes your scar tissues. Once in a while you should inquiry this treatment though. It minimally using ultra sound in guiding the needle. 13 out of 20 patients report improvement, and one session only take 15 minutes of your time.

12. Buy your running shoes after work.
Okay, this one is no joke. Our feet will be shore after a day at work, and swollen like we have been running for 3 miles. So, the best time to buy your sport shoes, or even any kind of shoes, is in the evening.

13. Do off road running.
To have better stability, and to train your ankles to be more stable, just do some off road jogging. Uneven surface will push your ankle to be more responsive to instability.

14. Know where you’re going.
Be careful to new track or area for your outdoor sports. Whether its running, biking, or skiing, its better to have a dry run first, so you will know your route better. You can prevent unnecessary injuries if you familiar to the taken route.

15. Train hard.
When we trained hard it will help our overall performance. According to Journal of Sport Sciences, anxiety can reduce our peripheral vision by 3 degrees and slow down reactions by 120 milliseconds. Trained people will react better under any given situation. Wider vision and faster reaction help them cool under any pressure or stress.

Imagine that you have to see the same episode of sit-com TV show everyday, I bet you gonna bored too. Most likely, you will change that channel, or read some books, or anything else, as long as you can escape from watching that sit-com once you enjoyed. What I am trying to say is to make your fitness program to be success in long run, you should make your exercise as appealing as it can be, avoid the routine to make you stay focus and motivated. Otherwise, you could end up jump out the fitness program wagon doe to your sheer boredom.

This point is where a Fitness Trainer role is needed. The most important role of fitness trainer is providing different portions of exercises that required to get fitness, yet proportioned them to be livelier and thus avoiding boredom. His expertise in creating and analyzing a fitness program will be suited to your physical condition and need. Fitness trainer can formulate a program of fitness that will suit your fitness level, can create customized exercises as per your specific need, and keeping your motivation and inspire you with activities that appealing and won’t bore you.

The question is how to choose the right fitness trainer for you? Just like any other thing in the exercises world, fitness trainer not all created equal. They background definitely different from one to another. The education they have acquired, the skill and training they learned, and most important thing is they passion to fitness world differ from one to another.

Here I will recap some important factors to consider in determining whether a fitness trainer is wrong or right person for you. Here’s how:

1. Certification
Just like any other professional qualification, certificate will verify the quality and expertise that the fitness trainer is entitled his credential. So, in choosing your trainer, it’s important to check the certificate, and make sure that it was issued by qualified and highly regarded fitness organization or association. It’s also recommended to choose fitness trainer that qualified and certified in CPR and first aid situations.

2. Education
Make sure to choose the fitness trainer that has enough education and training in the field of physical fitness and health subjects. Well, it’s not obligatory though, but the person who has such qualification definitely will have the plus over other fitness trainer.

3. Attentive and focus
Choose the fitness trainer that can give you personal attention no matter how busy the session is. A kind of person that can give every clients undivided attentions, focus on every body in his class with genuine attention.

4. Development tracker
It is also important to choose fitness trainer that have a system on how to tracking down clients progress in their fitness programs. This way the fitness trainer can generate and advise new activities or program specifically suggested to clients need.

5. Good Personality
Well, imagining that you will interact with your trainer quite often and tightly scheduled, I suggest you to find someone with personality that suit your pleasing scale, somebody that you comfortable easily, or somebody you can get along from the first time you meet and acquainted with him or her.

As final recap, fitness trainer contribution on your exercises program is quite vital. The best help when you sweating on your exercises can come from your fitness trainer if he or she genuinely knows what to do and suggest. And the most important thing is choosing the fitness trainer that can make varieties exercises program, so you will never bored with your fitness program again.

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1. Stretching is a must
I believe that everybody know the important of stretching before practicing any sport activities. Stretching before exercise will prevents injuries. But, I bet there are only few people who aware  that stretching after exercise, while the muscles still warm, will increase flexibility of your muscles.

2. Stretching time hold
The right way of doing stretching during warm up is holding one position for about 20 seconds. And for relaxation after exercises is hold one position in 60 seconds, this will ensure your body to develop flexibility.

3. Don’t move to fast
When you in to one position then suddenly return back to  relaxed position and doing this moves repeatedly, that’s called bouncing while in one position, not stretching. When you in to stretching, you have to hold that position several seconds, and after that slowly back to relax position. All stretching repetition shall be done this way. Bouncing yourself during stretching can damage or strain some muscles or joints.

4. Do it gradually
As for general rules in exercises, you should move up slowly from easy and little repetition of one move, in this case stretching, and gradually adding up the difficulties and repetition along the way. So, your body will gradually accostum to the hardest exercise position in time.

5. Stretch all muscle
You have to make sure while doing some stretching that all your muscle groups stretched properly, in both warm up and relaxation. Some people tend to neglect their neck during stretching. The methods actually simple; place one palm against front of your head then pushing it. After that do the same way to youir  side and back of your head. This will ensure your neck to have proper stretching.

6. Stretch regularly.
Like other exercise activities, you should stretch your muscles regularly and continually increasy the range of movements, so your body will have increasing level of strength and flexibility.

7. Aware of your limitation
Every body have different condition by nature. You have to understand your physical strength and its limits. Do your exercise and stretching base on your own capabilities, not other’s. Increase your body limits gradually, and listen up
to your body along the way. If it give you a sign of fatique, you should reducing the repetition and difficulties.

8. Learn how to rest.
When you do some set of exercises, you have to take some rest in between. So your body will have some time to recover energy for the next set of exercise. My advise is do not exercise the same group of muscles in two consecutive days. Let it rest so the muscle will grow properly. Please remember that your muscle will grow during its rest period, and not during exercise.

9. Don’t forget aerobic exercises.
This aerobic exercises is required for building better heart. The caracther of aerobic exercises are phisical activities that require  much oxygen for it’s fuel. The kind of this cardiovascularr exercises are such as running, skipping, and swimming.

10. Play your music.
For some people, music can help when doing some tedious activities. So, if you like music and need help to do some longer periods of training, turn on your music! You can use mini mp3 players or radio to company you during exercise. Just make sure to bring along the head set, so you won’t disturd your fitness buddies who might prefer not listen to music during exercise.

The good thing about stretching are it will prevent some injuries during exercise, increasing your limit in term of difficulties and repetition. Stretching aslo said good for tired body and for stressed spirit and mind.

1. Get the program the most suitable for you. Every woman is not the same. You may also have been doing exercises in a certain place that may not be suitable for you. Always consult the trainer to ensure a quality fitness program that will not harm you. If this is not a fitness program for you, you will only be a source of disappointed and injury.

2. Be realistic with your targets
It is better to set a gradual targets than try to achieve high target in short period of time. The exercise program or diet program shall be realistic and achievable. Do not give yourself a false hope. And be aware of some obstacle along the way that can make you frustated and back off from your goals. Once you reach your first goal, then you can adjust the next target to be more realistic.

3. Concentrate on your muscles.
Your exercise program should concentrate on your muscles with the main reason is, developing muscle will automatically make your body burning more calories which will lessen your body fats. Weight lifting is one of good sample, and also  multi joint exercises, they are effective and more time saving. Learn to understand your body reaction to the kind of exercise you do, and continue with exercises that give your body the best result.

4. Be systematic
When you implementing your fitness program on scheduled and monitored program for the first time, your muscle will working harder to adjust your new routine. But when your exercise become routine but you do not change the program (wether its repetition or weight in lifting), your muscle will not have to work harder since its accustom with the exercises. So, the result won’t be satisfactory. I recomment to systematicly record your exercise activity on dailly basis. Compare today’s result with the previous one. This way you can track back how effective one exercise compare to another , how much repetition you have got and how much repetition you should add. In other word, it will make you confidence and take control of your exercise program.

5. Be aware of the result
Usually one set of exercise will concise 10 repetitions. To build muscles, it is advisable to make the repetition with lesser momentum, well, as musch as possible. Lesser momentum means hardwork for your muscle, and hardword means better result. The easiest way to check the right momentum for your exercise, look at your muscles, it it floats, that’s mean the momentum just right.

6. Be variatives
Try to practice some variation of exercises program and be flexible with it. Monthly evaluation and change of exercises activities will make you have a better result, more motivated and preveent you from bored and losing your mental and physical energy.

7. Be Motivated
The hardest part of being a fitness woman is keep motivated. Once you set your goal to become a fitness women, then you should focus on your fitness program and keep your motivation alive. Take control of your program, when to do it and how to do it. If you join a fitness club, share your progress with your fellow trainee or your trainer. A little competition with your fitness buddy might be a good way to keep your motivation alive.

Not all exercise program suits all kind of woman. There’s no such exercise that best for every one. Learn your body, your physical ability and it’s  liability. Learn from other women experiences, both success and failures. Learn how to overcome your obstacles and be discipline to your own targets. Keep your motivation by tracking back your result and adjusting your exercise program to have a better result. Keep doing this, then you will find most effective way to be fitness, an effective way to be a fitness woman.

Then you have reached the point where your body’s flat terrain or the flat line cut of your progress. Come to this point of flat line is a nightmare for everyone who is into fitness. For some this is the point where they give up and get frustrated — saying goodbye to fitness.

Why our body comes to this point? Has the body declared a revolt against fitness? First of all, your body can adjust to any situation. So when your body is subjected to stress like exercise or sudden change of diet, your body reacts instantaneously so you can see direct results. But as your body gets used to your new activity, your body will give a signal that it is just a routine or an everyday thing just like breathing. Being categorized as a routine, the body is not responding to the exercise anymore. No more weight loss even if you are sweating a lot. The other reason is that aside from being the routine, our body is adapting to our remaining weight. Thus, the body will keep the remaining pounds and preventing your body from losing any weight.

Is this flat line condition can be prevented? We must condition our body so it will not be familiarized with the exercises. Be dynamic. Do some variation on your fitness paraphernalia and programs. Don’t be static.

In case you have been using a pect deck or exercise using a bench presses endlessly for a month, it will just give you results for your chest so the rest of your body won’t get the benefit. These need the exercises as well. So why not do a dynamic fitness. Let us say for two weeks you will do a cardiovascular exercise for sweating like cycling or running, either on the tread mill, static bike or around the neighborhood. Then for the next two weeks you will lift some weights to trim down your muscles. The subsequent two weeks can concentrated on full body workout program or aerobic. You need to subject your body to diverse fitness programs and equipments to make your body from responding as the “routines.” It is important to keep your body from being “fed up” with the same fitness program for months.

Aside from this, you also need to change the intensity level of your fitness program. Let us again take the use of pect deck as an example. If you exercise on pect deck for a month with the same weight, would you see some changes in the result? It will just be the same with your first use. The growth of your pectoral muscles will stop there. Your body also need some challenge for it to show improving results. There are two things that you can do for increasing the intensity of your fitness program: change the load or weights and number of repetitions. Well, for example let us say that your body can weight for 25 pounds with 15 repetitions, and you have seen the results. On the following fitness sessions, you can do 15 then 30 repetitions. If this is getting easy, you can increase the weights up to 40 pounds. Then start again from a lower number of repetitions and exercise again from there.

Challenging your fitness paraphernalia and programs is the key to getting improving results and will stop your body from meeting that flat line in fitness. Challenge your body for fitness and health.

You may ask, what should we do before starting a fitness program? Working towards fitness has three stages: conceptualization, action, supervision.

In the conceptualization stage, you will start brainstorming of your fitness program. What are your goals? What are your motivations? What are the types of exercise that you can do? You may have something in mind. Losing weight, trimming that flab, rock-hard abs for the summer time. These could be your goals. In thinking of these goals, you have to be motivated. Proper state of mind at this point will keep you fixed towards your fitness goals.

When you have something in mind, you can go to your physician or look for your fitness trainer and ask for the best fitness exercise that you can do. This will also prepare your body for the exercises. Can your body tolerate lifting weights or you can only take low-intensity fitness activities? Your doctor will measure your physique and health so he can give suggestions on the fitness programs that will suit your current condition. Thinking about your progression on this fitness program is also needed. How would you start? How many repetitions or how much time would you spend in working out? What is the diet plan for you?

Once you set up your goal base on suggested programs, the next thing you need to do is to think about the equipments that you might need. You can start your program by joining a fitness club near your area then you can think of ways on how to set up your own gym if you want.

This stage should answer all your questions en route for fitness programs. Laying all the cards and proper planning will give you successful results not just in fitness but in your life.

The next stage is putting everything in action. Setting your equipment and starting your fitness program. You’ll do your workout according to your plan. Check your progression daily and do different programs per week or two weeks to prevent your body from coming into a “plateau” state at this early stage. Also, don’t be too hard on your body. Tiring yourself up will do you no good. If you can’t jog continuously for 15 minutes then start with 5 minutes then train yourself until you reach that level. Remember, you’re just starting and your body is still adapting to the new routine.

Supervision, being the last stage, means keeping yourself updated with your development. Make a journal to keep you on track and motivated. If you think that you’re “burned out” with the solo exercises, perhaps you should joining fitness groups or maybe ask your spouse to do the workouts with you.

Doing these stages will bring you closer to fitness. Keeping your mind to fitness will give birth to a new you.

We may hear some older people say that they are too old for working outs and it is not easy to find fitness exercises that will fit their current state. In fact, there are workouts that they can do which can give a lot of benefit for their health. Here are some examples of the benefits and the suggested exercises for senior citizens.

Aerobic exercises can increase your strength and control your weight for fitness. It will also make your metabolism active. In practicing these aerobic exercises, you will avert excessive weight gain that can cause osteoporosis and back pains. Why? As you grown older, your bone structure and density deteriorates and your bones cannot carry too much weight in the process. Aerobic exercises can enhance bone density. Aside from this, too much tummy fat will stress your lower back because of the weight. This causes pain in your back. Aerobic exercises also helps in proper blood circulation. Good blood circulation means good air exchange because of the undisrupted transfer of oxygen through hemoglobin in our blood. Examples of these exercises are running, biking, walking, and water aerobics.

Fitness exercises can also build endurance. Example of these are swimming and also biking. These exercises will prevent you from having diseases where older people are prone of having such as heart problems, colon cancer, and diabetes. This fitness exercises will also build your stamina. Aside from aerobic exercises, these endurance-building actions will give you better heart rates.

Flexibility and balance are also important in fitness. Taking Yoga, Pilate, or Tai-chi can promote balance and flexibility of your body. These flexibility exercises are also used by therapist for patients who suffered from injuries. Exercising and training will accelerate the patient’s recovery from sustained damage. Coordination and balance are also crucial for older people. Impaired balance makes the older people prone to accidents and falls. Once they are wounded and needed to be taken care of by someone, they are prone to self pity and thus upsetting their mood and psychological state. This may lead to depression. These exercises are also promoting mental relaxation and balance. Not just targeting physical balance but balance of their psyche. Psychologically fit elders are much independent than those who are not. These workouts will make them think and feel good about themselves.

But keep in mind that yes, we all are growing older so do not stress yourself too much. If you feel too tired and need to take a rest, do so. Start at a low intensity fitness regimen then you can slowly increase from there.

You see? There are exercises that will make even older people commit to fitness. Just remember to consult your doctor for the best exercise for your current medical state and age. Don’t give up on fitness. Your health is your most valuable possession.