Fitness Tips

Health Note: It is very important to always drink water while working out to help you stay hydrated. Please check with your physician before beginning any new fitness program.

To help keep you motivated and make your workouts even more efficient in the same amount of time, boost your routine by taking ordinary exercises, such as lunges and squats, and adding a bit of a "punch."

Boxing moves help condition the total body and provide a complete workout for one’s cardiovascular and endurance systems, so add punches and kicks to your regular exercise routine. You can really make your workout work double duty for you if, for instance, instead of keeping your arms dangling down at your sides on the treadmill, you do some punching moves to condition your upper body at the same time. This means more workout in the same time period.

Also, to punch up your workout, you’ll want to really sweat. First, make sure your heart rate is at a level that is burning weight (which will be dependent on your fitness goals and present weight). Second, to really help you sweat and lose inches quickly, apply Albolene to your trouble spots before working out. It is a boxer’s secret used for decades to help them make weight before a fight. The Albolene acts as a blanket on the skin, causing heat to be trapped in trouble spots (like your tummy or thighs), allowing you to sweat more and burn inches quicker. It liquefies on contact with the skin, too, and is absorbed, so you aren’t left with a greasy feeling on your skin.

For a quick fix, do the following exercises five days a week for 30 minutes each session:

• Squats and Kicks: Start out by squatting down as low as you can. While coming up, squeeze your glutes and kick. This exercise tones thighs and glutes, and also uses the quads. Do three sets of 10, resting for about 30 seconds between sets. As you get more comfortable doing these, add some basic arm punches (as you come up from the squat) to work out upper body while you tone your lower half.
• Back Lunges with Punches: For working the legs and toning the arms, thighs and glutes, bring one leg back and punch simultaneously. Lunge with the left leg and punching with the left arm, and then doing the same with the right side. This should also be done as three sets of 10, resting for about 30 seconds between sets.
• Crunches with Punches: Crunches are great for toning the abs, but tend to be boring. To make them more exciting, add punches. With your back flat, squeeze your abs as you come up and punch. Four sets of 25 crunches should be done with knees bent or legs extended further out – to make it easier.
• Jump Rope: Jumping rope is a great cardiovascular exercise to really sweat and burn calories, but for it to have the most impact, it should be done as a warm up for 10-15 minutes, or as a workout for 20-30 minutes. Jumping rope for several minutes at a time in between other exercises is not as effective since you are not necessarily raising your heart rate for a long enough period, which is important for the workout to have an impact. When jumping rope, coupling the Albolene with a neoprene slimming belt or shorts will cause you to sweat even more, "knocking out" more pounds and stubborn inches.

It is important to drink water while working out to help you stay hydrated. And, don’t forget to breathe…it’s so important, since you that intake of oxygen to make our bodies more efficient in burning calories.

Please check with your physician before beginning any new fitness program.

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