Mix Up Your Exercise/Workout Routine For Maximum Benefit And To Stay Fit

Want to get the maximum benefit from your workouts, don’t stick to the same exercise routine; mix it up to stay fit.

A decade ago, a typical workout in a gymnasium meant walking or running on a treadmill and cycling for 15-20 minutes followed by a mix of various body exercises – sit-ups, lunges and squats. And one would follow the same routine everyday.

However, that is no longer the case. Thanks to the general awareness about fitness, and advice from personal trainers.

Fitness freaks now prefer a combination of exercises to keep themselves fit.

While cardios help fitness freaks to lose weight, weight training helps tone muscles, stretching increases flexibility and yoga will keep you calm.

For optimum fitness, a combination of exercises is essential, but its also important to frequently change the sequence of exercises.

The body is tremendously adaptive. It has to be confused with intensity, degree, volume and type of exercises. A combination routine is result-oriented.

For example, while aerobics helps in weight loss, yoga helps heal many health problems that women have besides boosting mental health. Mixing various exercises also helps bring down blood sugar levels besides losing weight and reducing body pain. Women are keen to adopt the combination routine because it helps keep arthritis and osteoporosis at bay

“Globalization, doctors’ prescriptions and the urge to make exercise more enjoyable has prompted people to adopt this kind of routine. This kind of training also kills boredom,” says one fitness instructor at a leading Bangalore gym.