5 ways to step up your fitness game
10 July 2019
In theory, if you take up a fitness regime and stick to it for the long haul, you should see impressive results in the form of a healthier and better-looking body. However, in practice, you soon find yourself becoming over-familiar with your exercises and getting too many of the same benefits. Boredom could even lead you to eventually throw in the towel. However, by trying something new like one of the techniques below, you could help keep a plateau - or abandonment - at bay.
In theory, if you take up a fitness regime and stick to it for the long haul, you should see impressive results in the form of a healthier and better-looking body. However, in practice, you soon find yourself becoming over-familiar with your exercises and getting too many of the same benefits.
Boredom could even lead you to eventually throw in the towel. However, by trying something new like one of the techniques below, you could help keep a plateau - or abandonment - at bay.
Find a workout partner
One problem with exercising alone is that you are accountable only to yourself. Therefore, you could too easily excuse yourself from an exercise session - and perhaps a lot more often than once...
However, if your workout sessions are always with someone else, you would have a fresh incentive to keep those sessions going. You wouldn't want to let down a friend who could regularly look forward to working out with you!
Occasionally change your exercise routine
If you have long been following the same training programme originally put together by a professional trainer, keep in mind that a personal trainer wouldn't advise that you always stick to it.
Instead, they would suggest that you occasionally tinker with your routine. How could you do that? One idea put forward by Fearless Motivation is mixing up muscle groups. However, make sure that the muscle groups you do mix up are complementary.
Everything but the kitchen drink
Here's a fun idea. Are you familiar with those drinking games where, each time you hear a particular word or phrase in a song, you have a drink? You could play such a game - except that, as Shape explains, you do a particular exercise on each occasion that a specific word or phrase is heard.
For example, when running outdoors while listening to music on your phone, you could do a burpee or stop for a push-up each time you hear Taylor Swift singing the phrase "bad blood".
Give some fitness apps a go
These days, a broad choice of fitness apps is available for both iPhones and Android phones - and trying some of these apps highlighted by Heathline could boost your exercise regime.
Fitbit is a big name in wearable activity trackers, but it also offers an app with which users of both major mobile platforms can track their fitness progress. Another app, Charity Miles, lets you raise money for charity simply by walking, running or cycling. Both of these apps are free, too.
Occasionally exercise outside the gym
However much you might love your local gym, your experience of using it could still grow monotonous if you constantly cling to the view that exercising elsewhere would be futile.
You could sometimes swap that setting for a brighter, sunnier one - like one of the Spain or Portugal locations where we regularly hold fitness boot camps. By phoning our company, Prestige Boot Camp, on 0117 973 12 13, you can learn much more about these fitness camps.
