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Fitness Regimen For The Holidays

Lifestyle Dec 05, 2014

by Anokhi Admin

Don't Let The Stress Of The Holidays Ruin Your Workout Progress

The holidays are supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, but for many weight-conscious women, they're anything but merry. That's because they spend the five weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's navigating a dietary minefield, dodging festive yet fattening foods, like sugar cookies, pecan pie, and buttery mashed potatoes. Hopefully, all the running around you’ll be doing will prove to be more fun than aggravating. But with all the travelling, gift shopping, and family get-togethers, taking time off a regular schedule and catching up when you return to it, it’s not really the most conducive season for making progress in your fitness regimen.

Here are some fitness tips to help you control and manage your weight during the holidays:

Have Intense Workouts

Any exercise or group of exercises must be sufficient enough to trigger the body’s response. Resistance training of sufficient intensity provokes an increase in testosterone production and the anabolic, muscle-building process. By making workouts intense can help you keep on track. High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is super intense workout option. It consists of short and intense moments of workouts. Cardio and resistance training work great.

Don’t Overtrain Your Body

Overtraining can be harmful too. If you are training too much or too little, you must pay attention to your progress so that you are not overtraining your body and exhausting yourself. This is key to the success of happy weight loss.

Track Your Progress

If you set yourself training goals, which are both short-term and long-term goals, you should buy yourself a log book or download an app (i.e. My Fitness Pal or iFit) to track your progress and make a habit to regularly monitor your progress.

Take Regular Nutrition

When you are training for weight loss, keeping your body hydrated and enriched with nutrition, you should focus on building muscle and strength; you can make a productive workout with a proper diet and being hydrated with at least eight glasses of water a day.

Sleep Is Important

Sleep is necessary for a healthy body and should be a priority when aiming for weight loss. If you don’t get enough rest, your body wouldn’t be able to recover from training.

Never Quit

We need to take breaks once in a while from intense workouts. While you need to track your progress and focus on weight loss, you should push yourself to achieve your goals. You should make a realistic goal and not think that working out too much will make you either have the bikini body or muscular body within six months. If needed, consult a fitness trainer who can guide you to a successful weight loss program.

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