If you have taken a time-out from your usual fitness schedule it’s tricky to get motivated to get into your workout routine again. What you will need to do is make some realistic achievable “written”goals to help push you.

The main reason I have emphasized “written” is simply because if you don’t jot your resolutions in a notebook your goals are just fantasies. Studies have confirmed over and over that writing your goals down in a notebook is powerful.

Let’s take a look at some examples. If you intend to get back into jogging, start to walk to start with. Depending upon your level of usual fitness you possibly will only begin with fifteen or twenty minutes. If you already have some level of fitness start with 30 minutes and slowly intensify it.

Once you have been walking briskly for a couple of weeks ease back into running by rotating walking and running. Walk briskly for just ten minutes and run for five minutes and so on. As you increase your level of fitness and your discomfort lessens increase the jogging until you are running again for atleast 30 minutes once again.

If you have experience with weight training in your past and have taken a time-out of more than a few months it is necessary to take it slow as you begin to train again.

When you are weight training, if you push yourself too fast too soon you may perhaps end up hurting your muscle’s supporting tendons and ligaments. The key is not to charge in attempting to use the same weights you were using and do less sets.

What I do after a long time-out is go to the fitness center and ride the stationary bike for 15-2o minutes first to warm my body up. Next, I will decide on only a single specific body part each day day to train. If you are an elderly individual or you have a large frame you may want to remain on this kind of program even following your initial break-in period.

Let us take a look at working out the chest for example. If I was able to bench press 300 pounds before I took a break I will begin my first training session with 135 pounds and do 3 or 4 sets of repetitions of about 15-20 times each. Fine-tune your weights to match your preferences. Afterward I can do 3 sets of flat dumbbell flyes again with higher reps this time so as not to place too much strain on my tendons and ligaments.

Follow these same guidelines for all body parts and you should increase the weights and repetitions little by little and within a month you’ll be right back to hard training again and moving towards your goals.

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