I think a lot of people don't go to the gym because there's a pervasive popular myth that you have to be there for at least an hour.
I'd like to reassure you that you can have tremendous gains in your physical conditioning with half hour workouts 3-4 days a week. Fifteen minutes of cardio and fifteen minutes of weight training is all it really takes. People's biggest problem is that they don't want to practice better nutrition so they're obliged to spend hours doing cardio. The sad part is their efforts are futile. You can't possibly burn off all the calories of careless eating. This might have worked when you were younger, but it doesn't work anymore.
Doing cardio workouts indoors can be quite tedious, so you'll love high intensity intervals. Select your machine of choice. It doesn't matter if it's the treadmill, elliptical, or bike. Start off with three minutes of low intensity warming up. After the three minutes you increase the intensity substantially and keep it going for two minutes. After the two minutes of high intensity, lower it back down to a much more moderate pace for two minutes. Repeat the two minutes high intensity followed by the recovery two minutes low intensity for the accumulation of the fifteen minutes.
Follow up the cardio with a full body, weight training circuit for the remaining fifteen minutes. This means choosing about five exercises that you do back to back with no rest in between. You repeat the five exercise circuit about three-four times.
You can't go wrong with this method. It works great on so many levels. It respects your limited time, prevents gym boredom, and you walk out feeling energised not pulverised.
I can't overstress the importance of good nutrition. Over eating or eating the wrong foods are the very reasons that you feel you have to spend so much time at the gym, and not having time is your primary excuse. Make time for the gym by just eating better.
Before you do any exercise, you should get full clearance from a health professional.
I'd like to reassure you that you can have tremendous gains in your physical conditioning with half hour workouts 3-4 days a week. Fifteen minutes of cardio and fifteen minutes of weight training is all it really takes. People's biggest problem is that they don't want to practice better nutrition so they're obliged to spend hours doing cardio. The sad part is their efforts are futile. You can't possibly burn off all the calories of careless eating. This might have worked when you were younger, but it doesn't work anymore.
Doing cardio workouts indoors can be quite tedious, so you'll love high intensity intervals. Select your machine of choice. It doesn't matter if it's the treadmill, elliptical, or bike. Start off with three minutes of low intensity warming up. After the three minutes you increase the intensity substantially and keep it going for two minutes. After the two minutes of high intensity, lower it back down to a much more moderate pace for two minutes. Repeat the two minutes high intensity followed by the recovery two minutes low intensity for the accumulation of the fifteen minutes.
Follow up the cardio with a full body, weight training circuit for the remaining fifteen minutes. This means choosing about five exercises that you do back to back with no rest in between. You repeat the five exercise circuit about three-four times.
You can't go wrong with this method. It works great on so many levels. It respects your limited time, prevents gym boredom, and you walk out feeling energised not pulverised.
I can't overstress the importance of good nutrition. Over eating or eating the wrong foods are the very reasons that you feel you have to spend so much time at the gym, and not having time is your primary excuse. Make time for the gym by just eating better.
Before you do any exercise, you should get full clearance from a health professional.
