Archive for the ‘Fundamental Exercise’ Category

If you practice an exercise routine, it is essential that you first perform a good warm up.

warm up before exercise

Basic Considerations
The routine below is a rigorous plan of exercise, so you need to make sure, first of all, your health is in optimal condition to be practiced. If you are unsure, seek medical advice before starting.

  • If you’re just starting, then you should cut the routine to your fitness and your level of resistance allow you to complete the entire program.
  • If you are a beginner, you will have completed only two repetitions of resistance training and only six minutes of cardiovascular training. Then, you will be increasing and minute series week after week.
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pushups

Push-ups on the floor also known as pushups, push-ups, push ups, planks or funds military, a classic exercise to train the chest muscles, you can perform anywhere and not be missing in your workout routine.

Implementation
Supported face down, arms outstretched, the hands width apart shoulders and feet together, inspire and down our weight. We must keep straight the whole body, almost touching the ground. Then push to get the starting position. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are some suggestions to help you stay strong and attractive body, prepared for any type of training.

Preheat is important
But like everything, should be in for good measure, preheat over no advantage and is more beneficial to leave the stretching the end of the session in the period of muscle cooling. Doing so will help you save time while allowing your body to better assimilate the work.

fitness tips

Improving Quality
When you search more effectively in less time are ideal interval training. Instead of running for 50 minutes on the treadmill at a steady pace, introduce variations, for example, starts with 5 minute warm-up and then 5 minutes alternating between strong pace and 3 minutes at an easy pace. Make this series three times in succession. With this type of work intervals can get the same results as with the ongoing work, the time difference is used. Read the rest of this entry »

Maintain a certain level of physical activity is important to promote good health throughout life, if we are to really do find the time for it no matter how busy we are.

physical training benefits

The benefits go far beyond the appearance of weight loss and muscle tone, in general, train your body with cardio and anaerobic activity provides enormous benefits to keep the machinery of the body to function more efficiently. Read the rest of this entry »

Before starting any physical activity seems to medium or high intensities needed a warm-up to prepare the body. This is something both coaches and athletes used to improve performance and prevent injuries. Here are some aspects related to the need to do, their effects and forms of delivery.

warming

Main effects of global warming
On muscle contraction
Muscle contraction depends on the temperature. In humans, muscle temperature and decreases below normal irritability himself and his ability to work, heating and stretching the muscles increases elasticity and reduces the hazard of injury. A pre-heated muscle contraction speed increases, relaxation and contraction force. By increasing blood flow improves the functional condition of the muscle to increase its supply of O2. Read the rest of this entry »

Flex Power Technique is a training based on principles of other disciplines such as Yoga, Tai Chi and Pilates, the exercise originating from a power center located in the middle, where the other movements are generated.

In principle be done by heating fluid movements, along with slow, controlled movements, always using the weight of the body. In every movement the body is completely integrated, flexible contracting and looking for a perfect balance between abdominal strength and spinal through a strength training and mobility of the spine.

The important thing is that it is fully aware of the ideal position, which is improved by finding a balance. This technique works muscular endurance, especially of support and balance, using both dynamic and isometric contractions, as well as wrapping the major muscle groups and especially those who are intimately linked to the position, which greatly enhances this exercise.

The practice of this type of exercise greatly improves posture, mobility, also helping to reduce low back pain, osteoporosis and back problems, connecting the body and mind by a transfer of the right position to other daily activities develop. Read the rest of this entry »

With the advent of summer people are more prone to all kinds of sports, and especially practice air free. But what sometimes happens is that the oppressive heat typical of this time in addition to a sabbatical, we can make it difficult to storm. So here we leave some tips so that not only in sports but to enjoy it.

outdoor exercise

First we can mention walk. As it is for those persons who had a life sedentary throughout the year, is low impact and has no age restrictions. Should develop with regular intensity and with a constant step at least half an hour to the day.

The advantages having this exercise is that it improves aerobic fitness, toning legs, relieves tension and eliminates contractions. We recommend using shoe padded, soft surfaces and supplement with some stretches. Read the rest of this entry »

The fitness function is a new trend that is daily becoming more fashionable especially in Europe. It is a way to make fitness that is a response to restrictions on employers, as regards movements, which have the exercises done on machines.

fitness function

In the nineties there was a very popular trend in the exercises, using machines only. This brought the fact that many people did not get the results they sought and suffered other injuries from the improper performance of the routines. Because of this comes the fitness function whose proposal is to make more conventional routines with pulleys, rubber bands and balls, in order to start preparing the body for subsequent execution of more complex exercises.

The most notable difference between fitness and functional machines, is because the muscles are trained first and the second movement. This style of fitness is recommended for both athletes and for people older and pregnant women, as the routines can be adapted to the needs of each. Read the rest of this entry »

It is a movement that this doing noise everywhere of the training, goes appearing from to little and flourishes in the gymnasiums on the part of the coaches that have specialized themselves in the Functional Training.

Functional Training

Functional Training is to train how the body works, A smart way to train. Plan each training on the basis of how our body in the athletic activity that develops as in everyday life.

Many confuse the Functional Training with training materials (Balls, elastic bands, bosu, platforms, etc..) Is true, that with the functional training can use different materials but is not training materials, the materials are one tool. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve seen on television some training for a football team, basketball, athletics, etc. You might have seen that they passed on a ladder that extended into the floor. Here give some exercises so they can use this ladder and take advantage. It is a good choice for training, you can have at home or take it to the park when we go for a run and added to other exercises.

Also it it can be utilized to carry out an entrance in different heat to the ones that come doing commonly. It has as advantage that is very light doubles to be kept, very practical, hard enough time, does not have a high cost and is of easy use.

We do exercises of speed, coordination, power and endurance. Here are some exercises to perform:

  • Stepping on a square pass or step with each foot, as soon as possible.
  • Hop on one foot, always stepping forward each square.
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