This is a guide that teaches you how to work out and get the best effects.
Eat healthy: Good choices are raw vegetables and steamed foods. Be sure that they are not fried or with sugar, because instead of give you energy, will give you much more to work off.
Make healthy choices about what you eat: Don't eat desert, and try drinking water or milk instead of soda or beer. Soda and beer contain sodium and cholesterol, and also slow you down. Avoid that.
Make sure you do your workout DAILY and never skip a day: If you skip one day, it won't make a large difference, but it makes you want to skip the next. Avoid that.
Set a limit to your workouts: Don't push yourself too hard, or else your muscles will be too sore for the next day, and overall you will get less of a workout.
Have regular meals: And always have something healthy to eat.
Drink water or seltzer BEFORE you eat: That way, your body gets it's needed amount of fluids. It also leaves less space in your stomach for food, and so you feel more full with less calories.
Calories ARE important for you: They provide energy, and so does glucose. They are only bad when you take in more then you burn.
The best times to workout are the morning and evening: The morning because it is before anything that you have to do(work, school etc.) and it makes you more bold and ready for the day. Makes a good substitute for coffee, which is bad for you.
Avoid stress: It takes away your will to work out and also causes you to want to eat in many cases.
Look at your body carefully: What area's have the most fat gathered? Most likely the belly and legs. Do sit ups for the belly and run for the legs.
Aside from your daily workout, try to go for walks and hikes: Hikes are VERY healthy and can be fun if you go with the right people. Bring water. Also, when you go for walks, walk on the ground and not the pavement(you burn more calories).
Set a limit for your time of TV: When you are watching the TV, do not eat anything. This is because watching the TV and eating are BAD combinations.
Set limits for your sleep: The average adult needs only seven hours of sleep. Too little sleep is bad for you, but too much does damage in the long run.
Monitor your weight: Buy some scales and make sure they are accurate. Monitor daily.
Do not go to workout after breakfast/lunch/dinner: This is bad for your stomach because it is full of food and it is all shaking.
Remember that the most important meal of the day is breakfast: Dinner is unhealthy because you sleep after you just ate, and since you are not active at all during sleep, most of it just turns into fat.
Go on diets regularly: Some people don't eat at all on Fridays, just for the sake of diet. Try that, it cleanses your system and causes you to burn your stored fat for energy.
Set yourself a minimum for your workouts: Don't cross that minimum.
Start small and work your way up slowly: First do five push-ups, then work your way up to six, and so on.
Avoid energy drinks: Sure they contain tourine, but they have so much sugar it defeats the cause and also slows you down. Drink water and milk instead.
Most of these tips are helpful. However, there are a few tips that are flat out wrong.
#10 says to look for fatty parts of your body and perform exercises that target those areas. There is no such thing as targeted fat loss. To decrease any percentage of fat in one area, you must decrease the same percentage of fat everywhere else.
#14 You should not monitor your weight daily. Water weight increases and decreases many times throughout the week (by as much as 5 pounds in some people) due to hydration and lack of hydration. A good rule of thumb is jumping on a scale once every 2 weeks, and it should be done first thing in the morning.
#17 The worst thing you could do is not to eat for the whole day. There are two reasons for this. First, your body will go into starvation mode. This is a natural defense that your body produces to stock itself up on fat reserves. The body will convert much more of the protein you eat the next day into fat.
These are all scientific facts that can be found at all reputable fitness websites.
#2 by blood_child, Jul 10, 2007
O.K. I munderstand, some are wrong. I worte that thing about looking at your weight daily because you will get a good idea of how it changes. Oh and that thing about not eating for about a day, thats good for your intestines, although noticibly good over about three days of not eating(not recomended) Sorry for the mistakes, thanks for reading!
#10 says to look for fatty parts of your body and perform exercises that target those areas. There is no such thing as targeted fat loss. To decrease any percentage of fat in one area, you must decrease the same percentage of fat everywhere else.
#14 You should not monitor your weight daily. Water weight increases and decreases many times throughout the week (by as much as 5 pounds in some people) due to hydration and lack of hydration. A good rule of thumb is jumping on a scale once every 2 weeks, and it should be done first thing in the morning.
#17 The worst thing you could do is not to eat for the whole day. There are two reasons for this. First, your body will go into starvation mode. This is a natural defense that your body produces to stock itself up on fat reserves. The body will convert much more of the protein you eat the next day into fat.
These are all scientific facts that can be found at all reputable fitness websites.