Gym Goers, Change Routine To Reap Benefits

Wellness

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By Cara

Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 16:52

People could be wasting hours in the gym by following the same routine every day for years at stretch. It has now believed that changing routines at regular intervals can only make exercising worthwhile.

Body is likely to get more benefit from short and intense sessions of exercise.

"If your training on the treadmill is always eight miles per hour for 45 minutes then you are going to see diminishing returns very quickly. Over time you will get less and less from it in terms of fitness improvements," says Marsh, a gym trainer.

There's a saying in the industry that if you keep doing what you're doing you're going to keep getting what you get. So, if you go to the gym and always do the same routine, you are not going to see changing results.

Change in the daily routine at the gym yields greater and quicker results.

The training expert suggested that one should work out at a high intensity, that is, at eight or nine out of ten for up to a minute, before easing off and recovering for two to four minutes.

One should progress either through doing harder intervals of intense training or through taking shorter recovery intervals.

The theory behind interval training is that by working at higher intensity you increase your metabolic ''engine'' and favourably change your physiology. Research has shown that with higher intensity training you get changes in enzymes and hormones that favour burning of fat.

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