Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Five Tips To Help Get Your Body In Shape For Spring

Adjust Your Diet
It's easy to find yourself with bad eating habits after the holidays are over and it's even easier to stick with them. More time on the inside leaves more time you spend loitering around the kitchen pantry and the refrigerator.
Look at your diet and get rid of the absolute no nos that you may have been letting slip by for the winter and holiday months. Knowing that it's going to be a while before you're out with less cloths on can make you feel confident that a little bit of this and a little bit of that won't hurt. But now is the time to remind yourself that every little bit counts and those extra calories add up; time to cut them out.
Up Your Cardio
In order to burn fat you have to get active and the best way to do that is to do that cardio. It will  help boost your metabolism and mood. Long winters can have effects on how energetic you are and how high your spirits are, a few cardio workouts to help you get back in shape can help turn all that around.
Mix in Some Weight Training 
Yes it's true, cardio exercising is the most efficient fat burning exercises you can do, but training with weights has its advantages as well. Just doing cardio is not going to help you get your upper-body back in shape. You need some resistance training to sculpt your peaks and trim out you arms. You don't have to go Arnold Schwarzenegger on the weights. Just high reputation with a comfortable weight setting should help tone you backup.
Full Ab Workout
There is nothing more sexy than a set of abs, but you won't get them by just doing crunchers, or just doing planks or any other signal ab workout. With abs you have to be willing to go the extra mile and implicate all of the workouts in your day-to-day routine. Work your abs from all different angles with all different exercises. Planks today, crunchers tomorrow. Legs raises the next day and so-on-and-so-forth. They're pesky, but when you can take your shirt off outside with pride, they're worth it.
Detox Your Body 
This is just good common sense for everyone to do every once in a while. But especially if you have been inactive for a few months and plan on getting back in shape, this makes even more sense. Look at it like an oil change for your car. Your body needs some refreshing. This will help you get rid of some bad toxins your body might be holding on to and help put a little extra pep in your step.