If you want to stay healthy and fit over 40, then you need to have a fitness routine that works for you.
The best way to do that is to use some solid guidelines to ensuring that you get the best from each of your fitness workouts, and then go out and do them.
In this article, I will give you five steps on how to make your exercise routines work for you.
1.
Unless you're already fit and healthy get a medical and start off gently.
There's no point in jumping into a fitness routine if you have some medical condition without consulting your physician or doctor.
Because you could make your condition worse without realising it.
If you're already healthy, but haven't done any fitness workouts for a while then you should start gradually, because otherwise you could injure yourself.
And then give up completely on the idea of getting fit and healthy 2.
Exercise at high intensity.
If you perform your fitness workouts at the level to where your breathing is making you struggle to hold a conversion with someone, but not to the point where you're gasping or panting for breath, then you're working out at about the right level of intensity.
This will make your whole body grow stronger and thereby increase your level of health and fitness.
3.
Set a regular weekly schedule for your exercise routines.
The recommended frequency to workout is 3-5 sessions per week.
However, studies indicate that you could go as low as 2 good fitness workouts per week, and still get and maintain a good level of fitness over 40.
Also, the latest studies suggest that short and intense exercise routines are more beneficial than long drawn out workouts.
4.
Make exercise a regular part of your weekly and yearly schedule.
It is far more beneficial for you to do two or three short sessions of fitness exercises, forty to fifty weeks of the year, than jump onto the latest Hollywood fitness routines for a week or so every six months.
5.
Find the fitness workouts that suit you.
There's no point you using the exercise routines of a marathon runner, if you don't intend to enter and run marathons.
Nor follow the training program of a bodybuilder unless you want to look like a bodybuilder.
If you follow these steps, you'll be able to start on your road to fitness over 40 right away!