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Two rules to push you through the next 6 months

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Two rules to push you through the next 6 months

Sticking to one continuous exercise routine day in day out can be very boring and frustrating especially if you are looking for great results. To kill the monotony of doing the same thing over and over again, make your exercise productive and interesting. Here are a few ways to spice up your exercise routine.

Start with Easy-Hard or Hard-Easy days principle

This is where you can decide to start with easy days workout programs for the first few days then hard days workouts later. If you start with easy days workout sessions, you need to take your body slowly or at a moderate high intensity. When your body is ready and fully charged, you can shift to hard days.

Hard days are days when you focus on overload. Overload is where you increase the intensity, number of exercises, mileage or time of your exercise session. Hard days should be days that focus to push your body to its limits to a point where there is that feeling of muscular aches but not extreme pain. These are the days you work to build up your strength, speed, agility and endurance while increasing your cardio-vascular capacity and rate of metabolic reaction.

Easy days on the other hand should somehow focus on cardio as it prepares your body for more vigorous push and path by warming up your muscles fully. You can still include the easy days principle at the end of those hard days to relax your body giving it time to recover and heal.

Here you don't need to push yourself. A great example is to take a swim, jog or long walks or a massage on the easy days and on hard days, you do a high intense cardio routine coupled with serious strength training exercises.

Have circuit sessions

This type of training session actually uses a group of selected exercises done one after the other in a continuous manner without stopping in between. Rest is only allowed once the first circuit is over.

Each workout has different repetitions for a selected time frame before moving to the next. The number of exercises here vary from around seven to ten that covers almost the entire body.

A great example is doing a few repetitions of leg lunges, rowing, push-ups, jumping jacks, sit ups, bicep curls, sit and reach in a continuous session then rest. This type of training condenses your exercise time and tones your muscles more quickly.

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