So I have decided to use some of my knowledge and passion for fitness and do a Fit tip of the week on my blog. If you have questions or frustrations regarding health and fitness please feel free to leave them in the comments and I will make sure to address them in my next fit tip! I just thought this would be something fun for me as well as spice up the blog. I am hoping to soon have a whole website devoted to fitness and good health in the general but that is still in the works so this will have to do for now!!!
Fit Tip #1
Get UNCOMFORTABLE
You may or may not have heard this before but I like to use this term in my classes (espcially bootcamp style classes) to give people a metaphor of how hard they should be working in order to get results!
Don't get me wrong it is great to get out there and move, doing cardio and strength training in any capacity is FABULOUS, however, if you are feeling like your stuck in a rut a good way to get out is to GET UNCOMFORTABLE...so what does this mean?
This point is different for everyone but we all know how hard we can push it. Running at a consistent speed is great but your body will start to get comfortable, you will get in a rythmn and you will feel good. Getting uncomfortable is taking it up that notch sprinting for 2 minutes and then coming back to your comfortable speed or going up a hill and keeping your pace. Whatever you do to get uncomfortable try to sustain it until you can't take it and go back to comfortable, get your heart rate back to normal and start all over again.
Another example would be in strength training, do not let yourself stop when you feel tired push past it, do a few reps when you feel uncomfortable and then stop, those last few efforts when you are pushing past your normal capacity will bring great results!
Obviously if you work out a lot this is not new to you and you understand the concept, but I have found in my classes that people who are new to health and fitness get scared of feeling uncomfortable. Don't let that be you, embrace uncomfortable and push past it!
WANT TO GET UNCOMFORTABLE...TRY THIS
Sprint the short side of a soccer field, get down do 15 pushups, stand up and go back in the direction you came doing high knees, when you get to your starting point to 10 BURPEES (jump up go down to your stomach and jump back up)
REPEAT!!!!
I promise you will feel uncomfortable. You can do this indoors just sprint the length of a fitness room twice for every length of field!
May 7, 2009
E's Fit Tip of the Week!
Posted by H and E at 10:30 AM
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7 comments:
Emily, this is a great idea! You should definitely do a tip once a week. Getting uncomfortable is the key, although not the funnest. But that's where I've seen my best results. Thanks for the inspiration. Give me a couple months, and hopefully my motivation will be back. :)
That is the inspiration that I needed! I am looking forward to next weeks tip and eventually the website! I love it! I am going to get uncomfortable!
What a fun idea! Hey, I saw Heavens on a rerun of X-weighted today!!! (Do you know that show? I LOVE it!)
I'm so excited for the work out tips! I don't have a gym membership anymore and am too cheap to buy one right now since we're moving in August. I've been walking up the hills around here lately and running a little. Any other suggestions??
Wow, I really need to get uncomfortable. I like that term, in my brain it says get uncomfortable now so I can be comfortable in my body, my own skin, later! Love it, thanks!
Love the fitness tip ideas, read it and love it, thanks for the motivation Em!
What a great idea, but I'm uncomfortable just reading this. ;) Actually I half did what you said about the soccer field this morning. Jesse was with me and kept trying to roll in the mud.
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