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Keep yourself challenged, and progress toward your goal by increasing the intensity of your workouts.
Technique
Carry hand weights
By swinging your arms with hand weights, you increase your workout tremendously (use weights up to 3 lbs).
Nutrition
Eat before your workout
For long workouts (90+ minutes), aim at eating half your lean body weight (in pounds) worth of carbohydrates grams for every hour.
Fill your tank
Make sure you're eating enough everyday to fuel your workouts. Most triathletes need to eat 16-30 calories per pound of lean body weight.
Reasons to workout
Workout reason 10
Provides you with more energy. It is remarkable how the 'feel good' hormones released by exercise will keep you going.
For beginners
Plateau then increase
After two or three workouts of comfortably lifting a certain amount of weight for 2 - 3 sets of 8 12 repetitions, you may want to try increasing the amount of weight.
Most of us know we need to be physically active to be healthy. It's not new information, but it leaves us with
many questions and many opinions. There's plenty of information about physical activity, but sorting through it
and figuring out what to do can be challenging. Instead of answering questions, all that information only seems
to generate more: "What exactly does being physically active mean? Is this physical activity or 'exercise?'
How much do we need versus what can we do to get by? Do we need to do it all at once? Is there an easy way
to fit it into our day, because life is pretty hectic already?" So many questions...plus, almost every day, a new
exercise product is introduced promising a quick fix—to whip us into shape requiring only the slightest
amount of effort on our part. If only that were true, we tell ourselves....