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Inexpensive Ways To Exercise For Weight Loss!
By Ray Kelly
Perhaps you’re a student, trying to make it on a student budget. Or, you’re a stay-at-home mother with little cash to spare. Or you’re just getting started in your career and you don’t have much in the way of disposable income. No matter what your situation, know that there are inexpensive ways to exercise for weight loss.
To begin with, one of the most cost-effective ways to exercise is simply by walking. It requires no special equipment—other than a good pair of athletic shoes. You can do it virtually anywhere—in a park, on a hiking trail, or around your neighborhood. Walking is also one of the best methods of cardiovascular exercise around. If you’re able to increase your pace from three-and-a-half to four-and-a-half miles an hour, you can expend 50 percent more calories. That means that, in a half hour of walking, you could burn more than 200 extra calories.
Another low-cost way to exercise is to work out with an exercise videotape or DVD. These tapes and DVDs can cost less than $20, but they can provide you with a year’s
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Keep your weight training short and sweet. Training Workouts do not need to be long to be effective, in fact, if they are too long, they are counter-productive. The goal of weight training is to go into the gym and stimulate muscle growth, not to annihilate the muscles. By stimulating them with progressive overload, you are forcing them to respond and adapt to this progressive overload. Anything more is futile over training. Try to complete your workout in less than 45 minutes. This short time period will ensure you do not over do it, it will ensure intensity. It's much easier to focus for 30-45 minutes than it is an hour. The growth-assisting hormones secreted in your body actually peak after about 30 minutes of weight training and then begin to decline rapidly. So try to keep it quick and intense. No total body workout. Choose one or two muscle groups, train them well, and leave under 45 minutes.
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What's Important to You?: If someone asked you to name the most important things in your life, what would you list --your family, your faith, your health, your special friend, your integrity, your career? It is a question that very rarely gets asked of us by other people. Yet, every day life asks that question. And every day we answer. The answer is not in words, but in action. The actions you take on a daily basis speak louder than any claims you might make as to the most important things in your life. The way you spend your time, the things to which you give your attention, and the areas to which you commit your resources, present a clear and undeniable picture of your true priorities. Are your priorities what you think they are? Look at your actions. Look at your results. Look at the life you've built for yourself. Does your reality agree with your vision? Success and fulfillment come not from what we think would be nice, but from what we actually do, hour after hour, day after day. Your life at this moment is an accurate representation of the things that have truly been important to you in the past, of whatever you have been committed to achieving. With that in mind, ask yourself --what's important to you now?
worth of exercise routines. Assuming you already have a VCR or DVD player, you won’t have to invest in any expensive equipment. You can also do the exercises in the privacy of your own home, so you don’t have to worry about how you’re dressed. Also, a number of television stations run exercise programs—the only money that’s required is paying your monthly cable bill, an expense you might already have.
Yet another way to exercise without putting out a great deal of money is to ride a bicycle. While you will have to invest in a bike, you might be able to pick one up at a low price by buying second-hand through a newspaper ad or through a used bike shop. Once you’ve bought your bike, you won’t have to invest any additional money in your exercise routine.
A number of magazines offer regular exercise features. These can be quite good and may even offer full-body workouts. By investing a mere $3.00 in a magazine, you might be able to find a fitness routine that you can use the entire year through. If you want to be really frugal, you can simply check out a fitness magazine from your local library and Xerox the exercise pages for future use.
One no-cost way to exercise is to dance. You don’t even need any training—you can simply get up out of your seat and begin to move. Turn on a radio station with dance music and let yourself go. You might also consider checking out dance CDs and audiocassette tapes from your neighborhood library.
You can also pick up free exercise tips from the Internet. You’ll find that many exercise experts offer their own websites which are filled with valuable information. Your doctor can also help you in developing an exercise routine that’s right for you.
As you can see, it doesn’t take a great deal of cash in order to exercise. And physicians say that, with regular exercise, you should be able to lose weight. By investing just a little bit of money up front, you can achieve as good a workout as you would be able to get at an expensive gym.
Ray Kelly is an Exercise Scientist with 15 years experience in the health and fitness industry. Sign up for his Free Exercise and Meal Planner at The Biggest Loser or www.free-online-health.com
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