10 Back-To-School Exercise Tips

Now that school has started and the Labor Day holiday is over, its a good time to get your exercise program back into high gear.

Let's get right to it.....here are 10 tips to get your exercise going:

1. Set realistic goals such as restarting your active lifestyle, burning body fat (losing inches) or losing 1-2 pounds a week.

2. Start today with a 20-minute walk. Do this walk every day, somewhere, at some point (the mall, at work or the park works). You can break it up into two 10-minute walks if you want. Also, start today with your great meal plan full of nutritious, whole foods that you like!

Start today with your food journal and get your friend to be an accountability partner.

3. On Day 2, start a 20-minute cardio routine or sport that you like such as biking, jogging, tennis, soccer, swimming, rock climbing, basketball, flag football, etc. Do this fun cardio 3 days a week.

4. On Day 3, begin doing a 20-minute bodyweight strength exercise workout. You need to build lean muscle in order to burn fat and speed up your metabolism. Do your bodyweight exercise routine 3 days a week.

Reward yourself each week with something like a full body massage or a special meal. Also, measure your progress each week (i.e. check body fat percentage and weight).

5. Schedule a fun activity each week such as a hike, bowling, jump rope, soccer or a walk at the lake. If you do something like this more than once a week, that's even better. The purpose is to stay active with enjoyable activities.

6. Take up a group exercise class or bootcamp. These activities are great for support and fun.

7. Start training for a 5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon or triathlon. The challenge will be fun and body changing if you cross-train.

8. Buy an exercise video that you like and get moving again! This saves you time by not having to go somewhere to workout.

9. Buy a medicine ball and stability ball. These are fun, demanding exercises that you can do before work, after work or while watching television.

10. Get your exercise kickstarted with my Free 10-Minute Fat Burning Workouts! These are perfect if you want to get the most out of a tough, short workout.

One more tip: Find a promo code on a laptop and get as much class time online, so you can free up more of your schedule for exercise!

Be sure and download your Free Bodyweight 500 Metabolic Fat Burner Workouts and start shaping your body faster!

Mark Dilworth, BA, PES
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