Health and Medical

Its been quite a while since your first day in fitness program and it made you drop off those unwanted, excess weight; sweating your self from jogging, weight lifting, and crunches. You have dedicated your life to fitness. Then you suddenly aware that it seemed to see no progress as you continue your program. It seems that fitness program is not giving results anymore.

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.

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