Starting your fitness journey can seem like a very difficult thing to do, especially if you are generally busy. Working out as a beginner can be overwhelming since you may not know what you are doing most of the time.
The Hinge Health portal discusses the common barriers that beginners are most likely to face before starting their exercises:
- Learning to make your exercises fun and committing to do them daily.
- Experiencing constant pain while working out.
- Not having the time for exercise due to busy schedules.
- Always feeling tired.
- Thinking that it is too late to start your fitness journey.
- Finding difficulty in making it a habit.
According to the Healthline information hub, regular exercise is one of the best things you can do for your health. However, working it into your routine and sticking with it can take some determination and discipline. Certain strategies can help you keep it up.
The information hub also specifies which types of exercises you should perform during the beginner stage of your fitness journey.
- Aerobic: The core of a fitness programme should include continuous activity, such as swimming, running, and dancing.
- Strength: Exercises such as resistance training, plyometrics, weightlifting, and sprinting improves muscle power and strength.
- Callisthenics: Moves done without gym equipment that use vast muscle groups at a medium aerobic speed.
- High-intensity interval training (HIIT): Consists of repetitive high-intensity activities that are trailed by either low-intensity exercise or rest breaks.
- Boot camps: Timed, high-intensity circuits that mix aerobic and resistance exercises.
- Balance or stability exercises: These are aimed to strengthen muscles and enhance overall body coordination.
- Flexibility: Exercises such as yoga or individual muscle-stretching exercises help muscles recover and prevent injuries.
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