Best Exercise Plan for You!

Planning an exercise program to optimize women’shealth and wellness can be both confusing and difficult to do. Theseare a few tips and a guideline to plan your exercise program. To seethe greatest results you need to eat properly, cut down your caloriesand fat intake in conjunction with adding an exercise program.

When you are planning your exercise program each workout should include:

Warm-up:A warm-up is five to ten minutes of stretching and light exercise toincrease your body’s temperature, circulation and heart rate to prepareyour body for exercise.

Exercise: Your exercise plan shouldinclude: walking, jogging, running, cycling, inline skating, or anexercise of your choice to get your heart pumping. You need to exerciseat least twenty to thirty minutes.

Cool Down: To help prevent post-exercise problems your cool down should consist of five to ten minutes of stretching.

BurningFat: Burning fat during exercise is relatively easy. To burn fat youmust exercise at a lower intensity than you would exercise forcardiovascular fitness and you need to exercise for a longer period oftime. During the first few minutes of exercise your body uses easilyaccessible carbohydrates as its energy source. After a few minutes ofexercise the body’s readily available energy source is used up and yourbody will begin to use stored fat calories as its source.

CardiovascularFitness: To achieve cardiovascular fitness you need to approach yourexercise routine a little differently. If your goal is to strengthenthe cardiovascular system you need to do aerobic exercise.

Aerobicexercise is not just an aerobic class at the gym but it is an activitythat requires large amounts of oxygen for a prolonged period of time.This will increase the demand on the heart to pump blood to themuscles, and the lunges to oxygenate the blood. Therefore creating astronger heart, lungs and muscles.
So whether your goal is to burn fat, become fit, and work towardsgood health and wellness, you need to tailor your exercise to you goal.