How To Start Working Out Again

What Works?

What is the best way to start a new exercise routine?

You need to know how to start exercising again. This is different for everyone. To start with; you need to asses your particular imbalances, know your “tipping point” when it comes to cardiovascular fitness, know how to avoid over training, implement a flexibility routine which will cater to your particular muscle imbalances, and you NEED to work your core. It’s easier than it may seem once you begin to feel it working.

If you’re planning to begin exercising then do not underestimate how likely you may be of injuring yourself during your first six weeks of actually working out.

Research has proved that people who are sedentary are at a much higher risk of injury when entering into an exercise program. According to the National Academy of Sports Medicine, during the first six weeks of a study that physically trained sedentary adults there was a 50 to 90 percent injury rate. This was a program done in 1994 that was meant to reduce risk of injury.

If you use a desk, computer, or a car in your job you may be prone to muscular imbalances you don’t even know about. These muscle imbalances are a major contributor to strains, sprains, and tissue trauma within the body, the type of trauma that can be exacerbated by exercise.

So how do you stay safe enough to see results? Step one: GET TO THE CORE.

Training the core first is nearly always the best of approaches when starting an exercise program. This is due to the fact that training your core (i.e. the area from the bottom of your ribs to your tailbone) deals with training the structure of your body. It deals with posture, flexibility, optimal movement patterns. But you have to do the exercises right.

Your core is also one of the first places to get injured in today’s world. Training that core will help to guard you against being one of the 80% of Americans who will endure low back pain. Developing your core will help stave off your risk of injuring your trunk like 60% of the people who go on disability every year.

Better yet, when you train the core… you begin to feel better! Have you ever tried to stand up really straight? Don’t you feel more astute, erudite, sophisticated? As funny as it may seem, posture is important. Did you know that just sitting up straight in your chair can help raise your energy level?

Training the core is certainly not “cool.” It is, however, the opinion of this article that the core is the best place to start when it comes to helping you get back into shape so that you can enjoy all the benefits of being fit while accepting as little risk as possible in the process. And, you can even do it in a small amount of time.