What's the best way to get fit?

Question

I've been a lazy bastard for over a decade,since I left school.Now I wanna get fit------what's the safest way to go about becoming fit?

Answer 1

Exercise. Ok, that's easy to say.

Find something you like doing. Cycling, swimming, running, or play sports, anything. The important thing is that you enjoy doing it. Find friends that also enjoy doing the same thing and get together a couple of times a week and have a good time at it.

The point I'm getting at is that you have to enjoy doing the things that is going to get you fit. Dreading doing exercise is no way to go about it. Fair enough, the first couple of times you may find that it's a chore, but it's got to be enjoyable to you so that you'll stick to it. Something I keep saying is that an exercise programme not stuck to is as good as none at all.

Once you get into the swing of things, build up the intensity of your exercise. If it's swimming, try to do more lengths in 10 minutes for instance. Try better your time at running, find a more challenging route to cycle up. This will not only keep you motivated as it gives you goals to achieve, but it will also give your body the chance to better itself and get fitter. Remember, your body will grow accustomed to what you make it do. To get it to get better, you have to give it more and more difficult things to do.

Do some weight training if you can. This will make you stronger and (contrary to popular belief) improve your flexibility. But if you've not done weight training before, get someone to show you the ropes and what to do and what not to do. An experienced friend, or even better, a trainer if you can find/afford one. Important thing to bear in mind is that you're not there to lift as much weight as you can - you're there to stimulate muscle growth and strength by making your muscles work harder than it has before (this doesn't necessarily mean heavier weights). Pay close attention to your exercise technique, form, range of motion and speed (don't jerk, swing or move too fast as you'll only use momentum, not muscle).

Eat sensibly. Remember what your mum told you about eating the right proportions of food. Minimise fat, minimise processed sugars and processed foods. Eat meat in moderation (if you're not vegetarian). Eat plenty of fruit and veg and drink plenty of water. It's boring, I know. Fad diets come and go, but the basics are still the best thing to follow. The key is to be sensible.

Do not drastically cut down caloric intake. Your body needs a certain minimum level to function. The general guideline is 2500 calories for active men and 2000 for active women. Drastically cutting down below this may lower your metabolism rate and result in you feeling tired, actually not losing fat (you may lose weight in the form of fluid loss though), and your health will start to suffer. Remember - be sensible.

But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't cut down. Reduce your caloric intake if you're looking to lose weight. But be sensible about it. See the link below to find out roughly the minimum your body needs, and a sensible number of calories you need to eat to lose weight. The key, again and again, is to be sensible.

Last, but not least, rest. Get the rest that you need so that you'll be able to recover from your physical activities and be ready for the next. Try and get at least 7 hours sleep. Feeling tired and lethargic will only make you want to skip your sport/exercise and demotivate you. Once that happens, it's a slippery slope back to sedentary-ville.

Good luck and have fun!

Answer 2

Don't eat oily junk foods from outside.
Don't indulge in activities like smoking, chewing tobacco etc.
Avoid spicy foods in ur daily diet.
Avoid eatra fat diet.
( Fats need more energy to get digested, so they cause laziness)
Don't go for dieting, it causes starvation to tissues of d body and hence causes laziness.

Eat Healthy.
Hav a good sleep at night.
Drink lots of fruit juices.
Exercise regularly.
Drink good amout of water everyday. Water keeps the balance of intracellular fluid and circulation, which is essential for effecient transport of nutrients in different parts of d body and muscles for energy.
Include Salad in ur diet. Ur diet shud contain atleast 40% salad.
Rest all others hav different opinions abt d amount of salads.
Some say it shud be 70% of total diet.

Always check wheather u r taking different varieties of food.
This will assure, u r getting almost all d vitamins and minerals which keeps ur body healthy.

U can also try meditation, yoga, aerobics, jogging in d morning fresh air etc......

Hope this may solve ur problem.

Good Luck!...

Answer 3

Weights

Answer 4

30 min swim a day,followed by 20 min jacuzzi and 15 min steam room,6 or 7 days a week.Eat 4 tomatos with 15 gr of raw onion with olive oil and a pinch of salt every day.Avoid at all costs fish and chips, butter,travelling by underground and overtime .I've been doing this for 8 years and I'm now 67 kilos and feel grat.Good Luck

Answer 5

join a gym. i've recently started trying to lose weight but its hard work, i cut out the junk food, etc, and do exercies everyday but it is slow to come off. but if you join a gym and maybe hire a personal trainer once a week or so then it should come off you a lot quicker.

Answer 6

Swimming is good on the joints and does not cause injuries as the water supports your entire weight.

Answer 7

Walking is safest way.

Answer 8

start workout slowly
and get on as you can

cut out on that junk food

drink lots of water

Answer 9

train train train, and thre is no safe way, you always get injured sooner or later :D so dont worry,
and i do few sports
sex, weights, running, sometimes bikes,
so far i got injured during biking (car)
and running (myself)

Answer 10

Change your habbits!