Myth #2-If you're not sore, your workout didn’t count?

Myth #2 If you’re not sore, your workout didn’t count- I hear this one all the time. By this logic, when I sit in my chair too long and my back gets sore, then I just had a killer “sitting session?” J Soreness can be a side effect of a tough workout that has produced muscle tissue breakdown. This is a good thing; however that should not be happening all the time. If it is, your body is not getting enough time to recover. If you help someone move or work in the garden, you’re likely to be sore the next day. Mainly because you overtaxed some muscles that didn’t have the ability to work at that capacity for that amount of time. I get results for people all the time with workouts that don’t make them sore. Don’t read that wrong. You will get sore sometimes, but the point is it should be more seldom than more often.

So, if you do get sore, the following are tips to reduce your soreness:
1.      Stretch and massage. You should stretch after you workout while your muscles are warmed up. Manual massage or foam rolling will help as well.
2.      Drinking plenty of water can help get rid of the byproducts (mostly lactic acid) of your workout that are making you sore. As a side note, water also flushes the remnants of the fat burning process through our sweat and urine.
3.      Biofreeze or a similar product is also great for relieving soreness temporarily.   

     
 Questions, Comments or Concerns? Please let me know if you have any health, fitness or nutrition topics you would like to hear more about! Are you participating in a workout program and just not getting the results you want, maybe there is something that just needs a little tweaking-I'm here to help.

Common Fitness Myths

What you believe about exercise may be your undoing!

Have you ever thought that you would like to workout,  but reconsider because, "Who has all that time and energy!?" If you have, you’re not alone. Many people believe your fitness routine has to be absolutely grueling and take at least an hour or more daily. In today’s blog I want to address some common fitness myths that I see other “fitness gurus” promoting.

Myth #1 Boot Camp Style-   TO ACHIEVE RESULTS, YOU MUST: RUN. FLIP TIRES. RUN MORE. DO 50 BURPEES. DO 100 HANDSTAND PUSHUPS. PUSH AN SUV ACROSS THE PARKING LOT. HAVE A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE! Let me clear up the confusion: You don’t have to kill yourself working out to get an impressive physical transformation. Then why would so many "fitness gurus" work you out this way? Honestly, it's because that’s the way they train themselves. You think to yourself, "But that must work because they appear to be in such great shape, right?" Wrong! I’m not saying you won’t have to do some work, because you will. But, if you’re looking for long term sustainable results, you don’t have to kill it (or yourself) every workout to get there. It’s all a matter of expectations. If you want to look like a fitness magazine cover model, then you do need to train more often and more intensely. However, if you truly just want to lose weight, look better in your clothes and be healthier - then it doesn’t need to totally consume your life. Will you have to make changes to your current lifestyle? Most likely. Will you have to switch to eating precisely every 3 hours broccoli, rice and chicken? Nope.

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The people in those before and after results didn't live at the gym. They made changes. They had accountability. They got great results. They appllied a balanced long term approach. The average workout time to achieve those results? 30-40 minutes a day, 3-6 days a week.

At Premier Fitness, we try to design something that is fully comprehensive, but doesn't require you to dedicate your entire life to the program. Fitness should become "part of your life" and NOT become "all of who you are."  If you're going to make a change this year, you really need to examine exactly what you want and what you are willing to sacrifice to get there.

STAY TUNED FOR MYTH #2: "If you're not sore, your workout didn't count?".