Fitness and training

Fitness and training 

In this blog, I will be talking about how you should train at the gym and the rules of getting fitter and stronger by training the correct way. I hope this post helps those who are struggling with exercising at the gym and how to do train correctly throughout the week.

Training and the rules of training

At the beginning of every training session, you must always perform a warm up. This prevents the likeliness of injuries from occurring during exercise as it warms the muscles up which makes them pliable (stretchy). The warm up could consist of static and dynamic stretches. Static stretches are stretches that you do when standing on the spot whereas dynamic stretches are stretches you do when moving.
 

Most people think training the same way every day is going to help them to become fitter and stronger, that isn't true. Doing the same exercises every time that you go to the gym will make you bored but also it will only work on the same areas of your body. You should set different days to work on one part of the body. For example; Mondays could be leg day and Tuesdays could be your pectorals and Thursdsy can be your arms and Saturday can be your back day. By setting yourself days to work on different parts of the body will allow you to work on that specific body part and therefore you will not do the same activities everytime you go to the gym to train. If you play a sport, you can train in the gym and different aspects/skills and techniques in that sport. This will allow you to become better at the sport that you do. Also by setting days that you train and days of rest, it will allow you to rest to allow adaptations to occur to your body so you become bigger and stronger. 

When you train at the gym and your sessions become easier for you, you should steadily increase the amount that amount you are doing. This is called progressive overload. By steadily increasing the amount you are doing in your training sessions, this will allow you to become fitter and stronger and this ensures that you are working at your full potential in these sessions. Never give up!

At the end of every training session, you must perform a cool down. This is because when you are exercising waste products such as Lactic Acid is produced. If this isn't released from your body at the end of training, it will cause you to ache the following morning. Cooling down at the end of each session will allow you to get rid of waste products from your muscles which prevents you from being achy in the morning.

What to consume after training?

The best thing to consume in your diet after each training session is protein. This is because it repairs the muscle tears that occurred during exercise and it allows adaptations to occur making you become bigger and stronger.

Also, you must consume water which replenishes the water that you lost from your body by sweating during exercise. This keeps you hydrated but it also replaces the water that you lost from your body during exercise.

I hope that these rules helps some of you to become fitter and stronger. Please comment down below letting me know what you think about this post but also comment on what you would like to see in the next post of this series.

Natasha