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February 20th, 2009

Using Gym Equipment Properly for Total Body Fitness

By Adrian Mahendra

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Exercise is good for health. It makes you feel better mentally and emotionally and you can often train even if you have some health problems or injuries. For example, if you have an injury with your hand, or perhaps you have a stress fractures, you can still use treadmill to burn calories, or crosstrainer to maintain your muscle mass.

It is difficult to start having a fitness routinity, like 5 days a week. It depends on your inner motivation. Everybody wants to haveĀ  a good body shape. The girl wants to have bikini body and the boy wants to have six packs. But they are too lazy to start taking an exercise for building their body. What is the solution? Force yourself to start taking exercises 2-3 days in a week. Trust me, after some time you get kind of addicted to training.

Cardio and aerobic exercise is better to burn fat than strength training. although a home gym can help you build up your muscle mass which can accelerate your weight loss in addition to the aerobic exercises that you do. Strength training is good for gaining your muscle mass. People with “big” muscles all over their body are easy to burn their fat, even if they are sleeping. But, doing the cardio will burn much more calories than doing the strength training. So, it depends on your goal. If you want to loose your weight, cardio is the way. But if you want to gain you muscle mass, do the strength training.

Exercise keeps your muscles strong, your heart strong, and your body in shape. At first, you may confuse with many gym equipments. For example, you don’t know what equipment you have to use to train your chest. Try to get some good guidance and training before you undertake using free weights to make sure you are doing it properly.

Its better to have a personal trainer, beside teaching you how to use the equipment properly, they will give you motivation everytime you do the exercises.

Most home gyms are usually strength training machines that provide a structured way of performing each exercise. The benefits of strength training are many and well-documented, and they can be very useful for overall body conditioning.

Check out my other post : Build your own home gym

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