10 Best Exercise Tips of All Time!

 

You have probably heard at least a dozen “Best Fitness Tips” in the past few months; just take a walk down the magazine isle at your local grocery store and you will probably find a stack of magazines touting the newest fitness trend or weight lifting technique that will rock you to the next level.  I used to get sucked into these magazines all the time with little satisfaction at the end!  Our personal trainers here at Blitz Conditioning sat down and rifled through all of our textbooks and magazines and compiled a list of the 10 most credible fitness tips and here they are:

Start with Activating Your Core:
If you have ever been to Blitz Conditioning you’ll probably hear all of our trainers yelling: “Core!” like it’s a lost puppy and we’re trying to find it. Core is our internal support system: it protects us from injury and allows us to translate our bodies movement into moving objects or lifting things.  When we consciously activate our core we are ensuring that we lift properly and safely and it also burns more calories!

Set Your Shoulders In:
Try this out:  while standing, shrug your shoulders up as if you are going to touch your shoulders to your ears, bring your shoulders back as far as you can go and let them hang down.  Feel that?  your posture has all of a sudden improved, you are standing taller and, oh wait, yeah you’re core is engaged too!  Do this whenever you can remember when you are working and also when you are exercising.  While exercising, setting your shoulders in allows all of your muscles to lift in an anatomically correct way, so you can actually use more muscles!

Hit as Many Muscle Groups as Possible in One Move:
Isolation and machines are great and I always recommend that a portion of our exercise regimen includes isolation but really we should be emphasizing whole body workouts!  Our day to day lives rarely involves using only one muscle group in isolation so why train that way?  Think about it: when opening a door, we actually use arms, shoulders, back, core, and legs!  Exercises focusing on multiple muscle groups is functional it increases range of motion and applicable to real life and to boot it gets your heart rate going and burns more calories like we said in our previous article.

Read the rest of the Tips Here!