Exercise and Summer
Looking and feeling healthy by getting in shape for the summer.
With spring and summer approaching,
have you been working out on a regular basis? If not, now is a good time
to start. Actually, exercising shouldn't be a seasonal thing for most people.
You should find time to be physically active at least 2 times per week,
while 3 times is more than enough for most people. To help you with any
workouts or cusomized workout programs that you may need, you may want
to check out the Global Health and Fitness program here.
For the people, who have
been exercising regularly you may now want to step it up a notch, fine
tune or select exercises that are sport or activity specific. By sport
specific I mean the following in this example:
I like to rollerblade from
mid-April to mid-October, during the warmer or hot months of the year.
There are certain weight training exercises that I like to do throughout
the year on a weekly basis and they include the following: leg presses,
leg extensions and calf raises. I could do more like lunges, etc.., but
I feel that these specific exercises are more than adequate.
Around late February to early
March, I also start to use the glute machine, exercises for your butt.
There's one type of machine that's called a glute machine, I forgot the
name of the company. I think it's called Lifestyle Fitness? Anyway, most
of the machines by this company are of low quality, but they do have a
few good ones and this is one of them. You are standing, you lean your
body forwards and press back with your leg. It is sort of a misnomer for
a machine because I find it exercises the entire leg, including the glutes.
It does a great job in simulating the skating motion when you are blading.
By doing these 4 key leg
exercises, I don't feel any muscle soreness from the first time I rollerblade
again after a 5-6 month weather induced layoff! Even if I go blading on
back-to-back days and nor should you.
Posted on: Tuesday February
20, 2007