6 Quick Fitness, Exercise and Diet Tips!

1. Watch the Sugar

Sugar from such things as fruit juices and fruit snacks may seem low in fat but once ingested the sugar turns to extra calories and finally more body fat. These fruit juices and fruit juice snacks can have more sugar then a typical soda.
Reduction of sugar is important to good health; therefore always check out the sugar content of anything you put in your mouth, even if it appears to be healthy.

2. Throw out the Scales

People often get obsessed with their weight and not losing weight, when in reality you should be more concerned with the loss of body fat. This is because weight doesn’t accurately reflect the level of your fitness, so make sure your losing inches, the weight will come later.

3. Tight Muscles

Just like aerobic exercise is necessary to get back into shape, strength training can be to. It’s essential for people in any age group to add extra muscle to their bodies, this muscle burns calories and is necessary for overall good health. As well
Strength training should help you achieve your fitness goals faster and help you to maintain them.

4. Increased Protein

So many diets today stress the fact to eat more or less protein, in reality though the body needs protein to rebuild muscle and tissues that it broken down during exercise. If you are exerting yourself more then you once did adding protein to your diet will only help to build that lean muscle you will need to burn calories.

You will need at least 30% to 50% of your diet dedicated to carbohydrates, 20% to 30%protein and 20% or 30% from fat. If you stick with this equation, you will benefit.

5. Be Realistic

Wouldn’t it be nice to just run a mile and not feel tired or be in pain days later and see instant results.

However, it is important to be realistic about several things. First, you need to understand that you more than likely will not (or should not) start out with a hard work out if you have not been in a regular exercise routine. Start out slow and do not set yourself up for failure by expecting miracles overnight.

Getting fit takes time and with commitment, you will reach your goals.

6. Track Progress

Sometimes when trying to get in shape, you will be sweating and out of breath and not seeing any results. This isn’t true, a lot is going on within the body, sometimes it takes time for the body to begin to use fat for energy and this switch takes some time.

Keep track of two things in particular. First, track your measurements, this is important by knowing where you began, you can then begin to gauge your success. It’s like anything without measurements change may not always be visible even though a change has been made, remember you do see yourself every day; it’s hard to see a difference sometimes. Second, track your routines so you can determine what is working for you and what is not. This is key in adjusting your routines accordingly; with a few simple changes a lot of progress can be achieved.

Write it down! it doesn’t matter where just keep track and in no time you will begin to see results.