Bored with exercise

It’s vital that you keep your training sessions varied not only because it keeps the training more interesting and you motivated but also because your body needs the variety to develop your fitness levels. Within mixing up your workout you’ll plateau and you’ll stop seeing any results. This could be so frustrating that you may simply give up altogether.

Your workout in the gym is fine once a week but you should also include a lightweight circuit training session and an interval training session every week, not only for variety but to help develop your fitness levels.

The weight training session, should include a 10 min warm up on either the bike or running machine, three upper body exercises like tricep dips, bent over rows and single arm pulls, interspersed with three leg exercises such as squats, lunges and step ups. You should stick to a lightweight or no weight at all to begin with and do three x 20 repetitions of each exercise with 30 seconds to one minutes rest in between each set. The session should also include some core exercises to work the abdominal muscles. If the exercises are new to you, it’s important to get some advice from fitness instructor in the gym or a personal trainer to find the safest and most effective way of doing each exercise.

Interval training can be done on any of the cardio training machines but it’s even more effective to do the session outside because of the variation of the terrain and the fresh air. If you’d rather stay indoors, you can also vary the type of machine you use on a weekly basis. Begin with a 10 minute warm up slowly. For the first session do 30 seconds fast sprint with 1 or 2 mins of light work in-between and repeat this 10 times. After the first two sessions you should be ready to build up to a 1 min sprint, 1 min rest 10 times and so on. Make sure you use your recovery time properly by taking the intensity level down and then you will be ready to sprint again for the next set. With these two new training sessions you will see a change in your body shape, fitness levels and maintain your motivation to keep with your exercise programme. It is useful to always seek out new training ideas and programmes to keep yourself in good shape.