Maintain your fitness and body is difficult and most men need a little bit of training and practise before they can successfully lose weight and workout effectively. One of the biggest defeaters of fitness for men is injury. This is why it is recommended you get sports and spinal physio every now and again to make sure all your bones are inline and so you don’t suffer from injuries in the future. As well as injury, general nutrition and routine are also factors that many men need to improve when they are getting fit and to help you out here are a number of ways to improve your fitness and workout more effectively.

Try Strength Training

Depending on what you want to achieve you may want to be adding strength training to your workouts. Strength training is a lot different to regular training and involves improving your core strength as opposed to building your cardiovascular health and the physical size of your muscles. If muscle building is your aim you should be performing strength training beforehand because you can prevent injury and a trip to the sports and spinal physio client. Strength building involves lifting heavy weight for only a few reps. Ask a training in the gym for more advice when you’re strength training.

Eat More Fruit and Veg

Your body needs vitamins and minerals in it and without these your fitness routine will not be as effective. When you are making food and meals you need to include vegetables and fruit into it along with a good portion of meat. You can also eat fruit and veg as a snack throughout the day like carrot sticks or celery sticks. When you make sandwiches you can bulk them up with lots of salad and veg, which also adds to the taste. There are a lot of ways you can add vegetables and fruit to your diet.

Vary your Workouts

Performing the same workout can get very boring and it is also not very good for your muscles either. If you are aiming for mass you are going to want to vary your workouts so you can confuse your muscles and make them perform different movements. Even better, you can go ahead and try new sports like soccer and swimming which are all great for a full-body workout. Just be sure to warm up before performing other sports otherwise you may injure yourself, requiring treatment from a sports and spinal physio expert.

Don’t Get “Food Bored”

You need to be mixing up your diet and trying new food combinations. If you stick to one food you may become deficient in other important vitamins and nutrients which can result in worse performance when you are working out. You need to try different things and make sure that your body is getting the full range of vitamins that it needs to function properly. Try different fruits and meats, adding oats and shakes to your breakfast is also beneficial.

Recover and Repair Properly

When you are working hard the gym or at a sport you may suffer an injury or may be in of some help to get you repaired and recovered for your next work out. One of the best ways to do this is with a sports and spinal physio expert who can give you sessions to help you recover. A physiotherapist can give a series of massages and bone/muscle realignment which will help your body heal, helping you recover for your next fitness workout session.

Fitness is incredibly important for men and you need to have a level of fitness in your life, especially if you want to fight age-related illnesses in the future. If you want some extra fitness tips or need a physiotherapy session, call 9144-1510 now to schedule an appointment with one of our physiotherapists.