Friday, April 10, 2009

Top Ten Fitness Tips

By Mike Walker

There are programs that assist you in burning fat or building muscle to get what you desire but not much that gives you information on how to keep your results. Matters need to be taken in your own hands to keep those results. Daily activities need to be put in place and its simple things like drinking water and eating foods good for your health.

1. Drink as much water as you can consume, drinking water greatly increases your calorie burning and muscle building/recovery. Thirst can act as hunger making you think you're hungry when you're actually just thirsty. Drink at least 64 ounces of water daily if not more. Good approaches to drinking more water can be drink water right when you wake up and carry on through the rest of the day till you go to bed.

2. Slow down on teas and coffee, stay away from fizzy drinks.

3. Have a piece of fruit or more a day in your diet, canned fruit juice or bottled fruit juice is difficult to digest and high in calories.

4. Avoid sports drinks as well, a bottle of that could replace all your calories you've burned during your workout, a bottle of water is suggested instead.

5. Make sure you get your breakfast, your goals can only be achieved when eating properly same with efficiently working out. Proven experiments have shown that those who eat breakfast will burn fat at a faster rate and build muscle at a faster rate then those who don't.

6. Snacks late at night are not acceptable, after 9 o'clock stay out of the kitchen. 3 hours is needed to digest food in your system, when asleep and food in your system it sits there. Since you're sleeping your metabolism slows down and that food sitting there stores fat.

7. Eat your greens! An essential part to your health and staying fit is to get vegetables in your system, helps with the calorie burning process.

8. Sleep sleep sleep, a night's sleep is great and is one of the best things you can do to staying fit. Sleeping burns fat and builds muscle, when working out you break down muscle tissues and technically you build most of your muscle when you sleep.

9. Have an intake of all food groups daily

10. Keep your routine don't break it! Number one problem people have is they do a great job with there progress or keeping there results but they miss one workout then two then it's broken. Turn it into a habit.

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