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Developing Fitness Requires You to Plan Workouts and Monitor Progress
By Wayne Mcgregor

Have you made plans to continuously improve at each workout?

Maybe you should as monitoring your workouts may pay in the long run!

Exercise progress forces the body to adapt to higher levels of physical fitness, which develops a greater demand in energy metabolism and expenditure. At higher levels of physical fitness cell physiology is vigorous and helps force the body to control weight at a faster rate, even if the diet is relatively high in calories an efficient energy system can take care of the all calories without converting the excess into fat.

You can only improve your fitness by challenging the body to perform at higher levels, although this must be a gradual process too much too soon can shock the nervous system and may result in an over trained state. For an over trained individual the feeling of constant tiredness will reduce motivation for further workouts.

Record each session and use the information to plan future workouts.

By recording each workout you can plan a gradual climb to a higher level of fitness. The degree of effort required for an improvement can be estimated before starting any exercise. For example, if you walked 3 miles in 30 minutes then try walking 3.5 miles in 30 minutes the next time you decide to walk for a workout. Performance levels fluctuate all the time so it


Wayne Mcgregor has a degree in nutrition and dietetics, a diploma in fitness training, and a wealth of experience in helping people to lose weight and build muscle. His website provides hundreds of free weight loss articles, sample diets, tools and charts of calorie content of different foods. There are also charts to reveal the number of calories burned during different exercises.

http://www.weightlossforall.com/energy%20expenditure%20chart.htm

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