When it comes to women fitness, there is a unique way exercise to ensure you meet the needs of a woman’s body. Here are my 5 tips that I make sure I incorporate into my clients training routine and I encourage you to do the same.
- Flexibility
- Free-weights
- Functional Movements
- Fast-paced Exercises
- Friggin Hard work
Flexibility
Simply put, flexibility exercise stretches and elongates muscles. These help to stretch muscles, protect against injury and allows the maximum range of motion for joints.
Benefits:
- improves the efficiency of daily activities
- improves the movement of muscles
- improves concentration of the mind
- improves blood circulation within the body
- aids in speedy recovery from injuries or accidents
- reduces tension of the muscles
You are NEVER too old to improve flexibility.
Stretching releases the lactic acid that builds in muscle with use and causes stiffness, tension, pain, and fatigue. In addition being flexible may also increase lubrication in the joints, creating ease and fluidity throughout your body.
Free-Weights
There are numerous benefits to resistance training and is a women fitness secret that is now beginning to be understood. Resistance training increases cardiovascular strength, reduces incidence of injuries, improves posture, improves strength, improves body composition, prevents osteoporosis and reduces loss of muscle mass due to inactivity.
By lifting weight, you’ll preserve muscle mass as you age. We naturally lose muscle over time, unless we lift weights.
Functional Movements
Functional training focuses on building a body capable of doing everyday activities in positions your body uses in everyday life. Exercises that requires the use of the greatest number of muscles and joints, such as lunges or standing dumbbell presses give the greatest positive body changing results.The key to functional exercise is teaching all the muscles to work together rather than isolating them to work individual. Women fitness programs must take postural and stability muscles into account for a better looking and better functioning body.Functional movements improves:
- balance,
- stability and
- coordination
Fast-paced Exercises
It is all about keeping your body in FAT BURNING ZONE…by keeping your heart rate elevated throughout the entire workout. This will not only have your body burning a ton of calories during your workout, you will be burning calories for hours following your workout.
Friggin Hard Work
Achieving a flawless figure is not easy, but it is attainable. Anyone who says you can look a certain way through a magic pill, liquid potion or simply by going on the next ‘hollywood diet’ is simply misinformed with no scientific proof to back them up.