1. Tap The Most Fat: Doing cardio immediately after strength training can burn the most fat. This is because during anaerobic exercises, such as strength training, your body uses glycogen as its main energy source. Once this is depleted your body taps into fat for energy, therefore doing cardio after weights can mean a full body fat burning session. So don’t wait after weights!
2. More Bang for your Buck: Compound exercises are good for strengthening several muscles and stretching muscles simultaneously. For example, when performing a bridge you are strengthening the glutes, hamstrings and quads while stretching the hip flexors. So compound and lose pounds!
3. Burn Fat Watching TV: Strength training increases your body’s lean muscle mass, which requires more effort to hold than fat. So the more lean muscle you have, the harder your body is working and the faster your metabolism will be, even when you’re watching TV. So work your body and your body will work for you!
4. Perfection is Pure Fiction: Have you ever figured if you don’t have an hour it’s not worth going to the gym? This can be perfectionism getting in your way. In 20 minutes you can burn up to 500 calories, which means you can burn a pound of fat in just seven 20-minute sessions! So drop perfectionism and drop the weight!
5. New Moves = New You: Hard work with no new results is likely to happen when your body becomes accustomed to a routine. To avoid these plateaus you can change up weight, reps and exercises approximately every 4 weeks. So change the moves and they’ll change you!
6. Power with Protein: Because protein assists muscles in recovery, post workout protein can prevent soreness and increase your results. So eat your protein for less pain, more gain!
7. Stretch Yourself To Thin: Most of us are walking around with short, tight muscles from sitting in compromised positions all day. When you stretch your muscles you’re lengthening them, making yourself appear taller and thinner as a result. So for more success, remember to stretch!
8. Reform Your Form: Proper form is the key to getting the best results and avoiding injury. To ensure proper form ask a fitness professional to guide you on checkpoints while performing an exercise. Once you know what to look out for, view yourself in the mirror until you have it down. So your body will transform when you perfect that form!
9. Strong Core…Back Pain No More: Besides all the benefits you may already know about core strength, eliminating back pain is yet another. Studies show that strengthening the core can significantly decrease or fully eliminate back pain. So stop being sore and strengthen your core!
10. Zen your Workout: Even if you don’t have time for a whole yoga class, just adding a few yoga moves to your workout can decrease stress and increase flexibility, strength and stamina. So let the stress go and the results will show!
