Free Exercise Advice

Get a Plan

The first thing to do is to establish exactly what you want to do with your body and how you are going to do it.

You need to establish goals that are specific, achieveble, measureable, realisitic and timed.

If you just start exercising without establishing goals you'll get bored very quickly, stop getting results and may even give up.

Train Smart

You want to work hard and make real changes to your body, but this does not happen overnight. It takes time, commitment and hard work to get there.

Make sure your training fits in around the rest of your life and that you can deal with any problems or unplanned breaks from training when they arise.

Exercise should be an enjoyable, stress-relieving, positive, rewarding and long-term apspect of your life; so plan it in so that it does not become just another chore.

Learn the Correct Technique

To stay injury free and get the best results, learn the correct way to do each and every exercise you use.

If you are not sure how to do an exercise or use a machine at the gym, ask a member of staff - thats why they are there!

Weight Training and Cardio for Fat-loss

If you are serious about losing fat and keeping it off for the long-term then make sure your exercise regime incorporates resisitance work.

Resisitance work builds lean muscle tissue, which in turn raises your metabolic rate. A higher metabolic rate means less fat being stored and more of it being burnt off.

A great way to plan your training is to do 5 minutes of moderate cardio to warm-up, move onto resistance work and then finish off with 20 more minutes of cardio.

Lifting Weights does not have to make you Big and Bulky

Weight training is a lot more complex than just lifting heavy weights and getting bigger muscles.

Depending on the exercises, rep ranges and amount of weight used you can acheive different goals; whether that be to tone-up, improve endurance, increase strength, develop power or build size.