Designing Your Fitness Program

Reference: http://www.cbn.com/health/fitness/DrLen_designing_fitnessprogram.aspx

Summary: The way to begin a fitness program is by wondering why you’re working out.  You need to find the purpose of why you want to workout.  Here are a few things you should ask yourself when designing a fitness program.  Ask yourself how much strength training do you need, how much cardiovascular training do you need, is your body able to handle the extra stress, how long should your training be, and will your training affect your current health condition?  When trying to get healthy and fit, you need to train and diet smartly.  You can produce and reduce stress when working out.  So be careful on how intense your workout is because it can add a lot of stress on you.  When you take a walk, you don’t add any stress on your body.  But if you do aerobic, weight, and burst training wrong, you can add a lot of stress.  So watch out for that.  During the breakdown phase, you lose about 15-20% of your weight.  And 70-80% is from your diet and rest.  When you lower your stress down fast, the quicker the anabolic starts.  The more stress you get means that you been working out hard and when you work out hard you get to rest for a while.  Make sure to get more information on whatever questions you have. 

Critique: Before you start your work out plan, make sure to be safe.  What I mean by that is to know what you are doing. If you don’t know what you are doing, you can really hurt yourself. 

Impact: The key thing here is to gather your information.  You need to know a lot before you do stuff that you have never done before.  If you don’t have any information, don’t workout because you can harm your body.  All I have to say is be carful and have fun with your workout and know what your doing.