Fitness. In shape for the summer. Are you ready? 5 Tips

Summer is coming into view. Is your body ready? Maybe not (yet). We have 5 inspiring tips for you. Let yourself be motivated! It is now the time for it. Unless you do not care how you get there later ... (but we do not believe that!).

Tip 1: Build it up slowly

A mistake that many people make - whether they have experience with training or not - is to start training intensively and a lot. If you have not trained for a while or have never trained before, build it up slowly and give your body time to get used to the new situation. Training three times a week - every other day - with light weights or a little bit of running is fine to start again. After two or three weeks you can step up the intensity and train longer and more.

Tip 2: watch what you eat

Training is important for your physical form, but a healthy diet is even more important. Should you have to choose, then healthy eating is more effective than training, at least to burn fat. It is even better if you combine both.

Tip 3: weights for a tighter body

Training with weights helps to tackle the excess kilos and is FUNDAMENTAL for a STRETCH body! Especially for men, weights can do a lot (you can shape your body with it), but the ladies also benefit from it. There are women who walk around weights with a big bow because they think they are getting more muscular and bigger, but that is a fable. The fact is that a few light weights (and many repetitions) are the only way towards tighter back arms and legs and buttocks of steel!

Tip 4: do not underestimate the effect of aerobic activities!

If you spend half an hour on the treadmill, you burn about 300 to 400 calories. If you eat an ice cream afterwards, you will receive these calories twice. What is your reward for that half-hour sweat on the treadmill? What is the use of it, could you ask yourself? That is indeed there. Forget the mathematical calculation of the number of calories burned. It is mainly about the effect that aerobic activities, but also strength training, have on your metabolism (metabolism). That effect lasts 12 to 48 after training. And that's your profit!

Tip 5: go for continuity

If you start to exercise again, it is very important that you build it up slowly (see tip 1) to give your body time to get used to exercising. But there are other reasons why starting slowly is better. Firstly because you are more inclined to start at all. A soft start makes it easy to get over the line (threshold of the gym). A soft start and a slow buildup also make it easier to keep on exercising regularly. Because that is very important. Training intensively with peaks and then doing nothing for a while, you will not achieve much in the long run. You only achieve sustainable results if you train with regularity. Good luck with it!