Improve your fitness (Other Exercise and Classes)

Member Name: mizzy

Product:	Other Exercise and Classes
Date:	02/05/09 (91 review reads)
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Advantages: You feel better

Disadvantages: Quite tiring dont overdo it

Exercise is something that everyone should be doing on a daily basis, whether this is walking to your destination instead of driving, or attending a class in exercise, or going to the gym.

These are some of the ways in which I try to keep fit.

Recently, I have stopped buying a bus pass, and started walking everywhere, luckily I live near Leeds town centre, so the furthest I have to walk is an hour to work twice a week. I also walk to and from University every day, and around uni, so this helps. I can feel my legs toning up quite a lot, and although I am more tired at the end of a day, it makes me feel good, and saves me money on the bus.

Another way of exercising that I enjoy is aerobics classes. I go once or twice a week to an hour of high impact classes. For this you need good trainers, as you can read about in my previous review, and a lot of water. Its important to keep nipping over and drinking some water, otherwise you will not last the full 45 mins of the class. My instructor puts in low impact gaps before she puts on faster music so you can run and get a drink.

Its important to keep your heart rate up so try not to stop too often, and if you do go and get a drink, walk on the spot and run back to your place.

A good instructor should always ask if theres any injury, and try to help those at the back of the room who just cant seem to follow the routine. In the classes I attend, one half of the room at the front knows what they are doing, and the other half just stands there. You wont loose any weight if your just standing there so I dont know why they just dont try!

Classes can be a great way of motivating yourself to do exercise. It might seem intimidating when you first go, but just talk to whoevers standing next to you, and they might be friendly. If you go with a friend then they can also make you feel guilty if you dont go, so therefore you will go every week so as not to let them down.

One way to keep up your energy levels in a class is to eat a banana just before, as it wont give you a stitch, and has slow release energy so it will keep you going whilst you exercise.

If you want to tone up more than loose weight then a good class is legs bums and tums. This involves a lot of squats, resistance work and sit ups. At the time you might not feel as though you are doing a lot of exercise but believe me you will feel it the next day.

All of these workouts can be done at home with a dvd, but I find its more motivational having an instructor shouting at you to work harder with real people around you.
Also as I live in a flat I dont think they would appreciate me stamping on the floor for an hour!

Good luck with getting fit!

Summary: Its worth it!