Fitness training tips for planning the perfect workout Sunday

By David L Mills
Many institutes and fitness training tips will promise you exercises that will help you lose weight from specific regions of a body. Though exercises and weight training plans can help you tone areas, there is no magic exercise that will help you lose your belly fat or those hips. To lose weight, you have to get going with cardio exercises and burn fat throughout.

There is a very wrong notion amongst people that treadmill is a leg workout, recumbent bikes for thighs and rowing for hands/back. Yes, these machines do make you move those areas of your body but they all help you lose weight all over. If you do want to make a certain area stronger or develop muscles in one particular zone, these machines won't help you; your fitness training tips should include weight training and toning exercises for specific zones. Here's how a good workout should look like. Three days of intense cardio with light toning

Three days of light cardio (warm up) with weight training for different zones on different days. For example, if you chose to weight train on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, work your chest and arms on Monday, your abs on Wednesday and Legs on Friday. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays do intense cardio- running, cycling, aerobics, anything that will make you sweat. You can then play around with light weights or resistance tubes for some stretching. On Sundays, you can go in for a hot sauna or steam bath with some good old massage for relaxation.

Few important fitness training tips to remember: It is quite useless to weight train every day of the week. It won't help your muscles since they need a day of rest in between to recover from the wear and tear- that's how they grow and develop.

Intense cardio doesn't mean you can feel your heart jumping out from your throat. Even while doing an intense cardio workout, make sure you can speak one entire sentence in one breath while you flush and sweat- that' the sign of a healthy heart rate for a great cardio workout.

If you don't like running or cycling, you could spice up your workout by adding dance on one day, swimming on the other and maybe add martial arts for the last day of the week- you basically need cardio, that will help you with your stamina and pulse, not something you won't enjoy doing.

Always eat at least two hours before your workout and keep sipping water throughout. Have a high protein bite within half an hour of your workout- especially on weight training days. And the most important fitness training tips are to understand your body and its limitations before you push it too hard and the fact that fitness routines differ from person to person.