Tip 1: Workout in a team.
The common myth that you have to go to a gym by yourself and lift weights for an hour is simply that.
A myth.
One of the best practices you can do to not only ensure your health but the health of your friends is to get as many of your friends together and work out as a team.
These workouts will inspire competition, keep you consistent, and will get you and your friends out from behind the computer or the television.
A lot of the mixed martial artists will have training camps for months at a time where he or she surrounds himself or herself with trainers and team mates to do nothing but condition their bodies for their upcoming fight.
This team can also act as a support group.
When someone falls off their diet or is lagging behind in a workout your team mates are there to push you and get you back on track.
The benefits you see from a team workout will help you inside and outside the gym.
Tip 2: Don't Just do the workouts in the gym.
Lets face it.
A lot of the times when its Spring or Summer and it's absolutely gorgeous outside, you don't really want to be cooped up in the gym pounding out some weights.
You and your team definitely need to schedule some outside workouts.
Whether than involves going to a track, an outdoor pool, or even a park the change of pace and scenery that outdoor workouts offer can reinvigorate your drive.
The biggest concern with these outdoor workouts is that there is no weights to lift while outside.
And you can't very well take a whole weight set to the park.
Or can you? Your team can be your weight set.
Doing buddy carries and buddy lifts can sometimes be better for you than traditional weight lifting because it gives your body a better sense of how to lift something practically.
It also gives you a good gauge at how much the weight lifting at the gym has paid off.
Also find a set of stairs.
If you go to YouTube or any other video website and look up videos of outdoor team workouts they involve some form of stairs.
Tip 3: Work towards a goal.
Every mixed martial artists that hosts a training camp works towards an inevitable fight.
Even if you aren't trying to compete you should work towards a final workout or competition at the end of every month or so.
This will let you visibly see the results of you and your team's efforts in the gym and gives you an idea of how hard you need to push yourself the next month.
The competition this can breed more often than not breeds progress.
Unless you are not completely driven then you do not want to finish last.
So if you do finish last one month you will bust your butt to get first place next month.
An idea for this is to have a comprehensive workout that encompasses all the skills you've learned that month and then put them to the test.