No matter which way you go, you are going to need exercise equipment and a room in your home to put them. Here are a few choices for the kinds of equipment that you might want to get:
The most popular workout equipment that is sold today is a treadmill. If the weather is cold, or if it's raining or snowing you don't have to worry about freezing. Just go into your exercise room (or space) and walk on your treadmill. Treadmills aren't the heavy, clunky machines that they used to be. Most can now be folded up and stowed away in a closet or behind a screen.
A universal weight set is the next thing that you should think about getting. Universal weight sets can be set up so that you can exercise a wide range of muscles in the body. Pumping iron isn't like it used to be in the old days. This type of exercise equipment can be set up to exercise just about any part of your body, from your legs, to your arms to you back...you name it.
Using just these two pieces of exercise equipment, you can improve both your cardio and your body's strength.
The least expensive choice as to learning the correct ways to exercise is by purchasing a fitness video. You don't even have to use special equipment with some of these videos. Some will be for yoga and others just for dancing and aerobic exercise. Here are some things to be aware of when looking for a fitness video:
1. Decide on what kind of fitness that you want to start with and buy a video for that one kind. Don't try to start out with twenty different kinds of exercises. You'll just give up overwhelmed and frustrated.
2. Start slowly by following the video examples one step at a time. Maybe you've decided to do an aerobics dance video first. Begin the routine and then stop when you get overly tired. Take a day off and then start again, going as far as you can without overtaxing yourself. Build up your workout routine time gradually.
3. Only when you can easily do the exercise routine in the aerobics video that you purchased, then go for another type of exercise such as Tai Bo.
Fitness videos are great for those who are shy or think that they are to fat to be seen at the gym. (Why is that? That's what gyms are for!) Once you get a few routines down, you'll start feeling healthier and have more stamina.
Some people may do better with a personal trainer. After all, you can't "cheat" on your exercises if you have someone telling you exactly what, how and why you should do your exercising. A personal trainer will create an exercise routine that matches your fitness level. They are there to push you a bit but not to make you do more than your body will tolerate.
Here are some tips on hiring a personal trainer:
You should be able to find a personal trainer at your local gym. You can hire one of them or ask them for a referral for one for you to use in your home.
This could get a bit expensive. You might just decide that it would be less expensive for you to work out at the gym just to get you started. You could join for just a short time. Some gyms even have a "trial period" so you can test them out. The trainer would show you how to use the exercise equipment and you'll go and apply the same methods at home.
It would probably be better to splurge on a personal trainer to begin with so that he (or she) can start you on the routine that will be best for you level of physical fitness. They are the experts and will guide you in the right direction.
Which ever way you decide to go, fitness video or personal trainer, you must get started. The longer you wait, the more difficult it will be. Just do it!
At Home Personal Trainer
It's really "my word against yours" most of the time... when it comes to the supplements really doing what their labels claim.
Add to this some really deceptive and misleading advertising campaigns and it becomes a big minefield for buyers!
At least when choosing a personal trainer or fitness coach, you can watch a trainer and see if he/she is good or not... but you would have to send a supplement to a lab to get it analyzed.
Because I am a fitness professional and personal trainer in Singapore, I only wish to recommend the best products to clients!
I sleep soundly each night safe in the knowledge that only quality products get recommended and sold to my clients:)
There is such a wide variety of supplements in Singapore and in many other countries out there, and they vary wildly with prices and of course with quality! Let's take for example a multi vitamin formula...
It is possible to make a multi-vitamin appear very complete (look good on the label) yet very cheap - and of course POOR QUALITY.
Here is how:
* Choose less absorbable ingredients (that look the same on the label...) for example, a quality ingredient like Magnesium Aspartate has a high absorbablitly of 58%, but a low quality one like Magnesium Oxide ... 5%! more than 11x less... but hey... most consumers can't tell the difference!
BTW a good multi vitamin blend does not cost 11x more than a lousy one, so its certainly a good idea to go with the best ones!
* Make low quality tablets/capsules by packing them with filler and compressing them so that they have low density of nutrients (this means that for low cost, you can sell hugh capsule numbers on the bottle front "640 capsules" and so on!).
This has the added advantage that your capsules will never break apart giving an even higher appearance of quality!
Unfortunately this also means that the capsules will not dissolve! You can often see low quality capsules pass right through your digestive tract and exit your body unutilized... another waste!
* Use synthetic additives that are not in "nature's balance" for proper use. Natural beta carotene or vitamin E is not the same as synthetic ones because the natural one will be complete in all its forms. The way God intended it to be. the many forms help you use the vitamin fully. The synthetic ones only look good on the labels.
Another ingredient that is often problematic is vitamin C. Most multi-vitamins only put in ascorbic acid. But for vitamin C to have its full benefits, you need bioflavanoids as well. In a 1:2 ratio (bioflavanoids 1, ascorbic acid 2).
There we have it, 3 ways to make a lousy multivitamin supplement. As a personal trainer in Singapore, the ones I recommend don't use these methods. Use 2-3 different multi vitamin blends and rotate them (or randomly take a few from each blend each day) this makes sure that your vitamin and mineral bases are covered!
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