Your Fitness Exercise Program - Don't Make It Harder Than It Needs To Be
If you've decided to begin a fitness exercise program, you may be confused by all the fitness, nutrition, and weight loss information out there. Some people can make the whole procedure seem very complicated, and it might appear that one needs to buy a lot of books, adhere slavishly to a difficult diet plan that requires lots of expensive foods and supplements, and join a fancy commercial gym with all the latest high-tech equipment.
Really, if you're one of those people that likes multi-tasking, thriving on all kinds of stress and always having ten things going at once, then this may be the way to go for you. But if you prefer to make things as simple as possible (at least at first), then there are alternatives available. In addition to saving you a lot of time and trouble, they'll allow you to hold onto more of your hard earned money.
You really don't need any diet books. While low carb diets have been big money makers for book publisher for at least the last five years, it's not necessary to read a whole book to find out how to eat to be fit, healthy, and reach your ideal weight. Consume a diet that has ample good fats from fish, lean meats, nuts, seeds, and olive oil. Eliminate junk processed carbs like white breads, chips, donuts, ice cream, candy bars, etc. Eat lots of foods in their natural, unprocessed state. Eat lots of non-starchy vegetables like broccoli, leafy greens, tomatoes, peppers, cauliflower, zucchini, etc. Limit starchy vegetables like potatoes. Limiting all grains, even whole grains, will help some people - not all. Eat organically grown when you can afford it. That's it. Pretty simple.
When it comes to your fitness exercises, you don't need fancy equipment. If you have access to it at a reasonable cost, fine - but don't break the bank or go out of your way to use it. Bodyweight exercises like squats, lunges, pushups, dips, reverse crunches, pullups and chinups will get you in as good of a condition as you can be, if you work at them. You can add a weight bench and some dumbbells if you want. For aerobic exercise, you can jump rope, jog, walk briskly, do jumping jacks, run in place, and more. You can do interval workouts where you do short periods of very hard cardio work interspersed with easier effort. You can take the interval approach to bodyweight strength conditioning exercises like the bear crawl, burpee, and walking lunge (just to name a few) which will make for one heck of a workout for your cardiovascular system. There are many options. You could also buy an exercise bike or elliptical trainer if you have the room and money - but it's not required. So you can see that getting an effective fitness exercise program going doesn't require that you empty your pocketbook or engage in overly complicated nutrition and exercise schemes. Keeping it as simple as possible is always the way to go. If you love complexity, feel free to add some in once you see results. But if you start with complexity, how will you know what parts of your program are working and which ones need adjustment? KISS (keep it simple stupid :-)
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