Effective Fitness Workout Tips From a Pilates Instructor
Lara Hudson’s 10 Minute Solution: Pilates DVD is the best home fitness workout I’ve ever done ever – and here she offers four effective workout tips to help you achieve your fitness goals!
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” – John F. Kennedy.
We know how important it is to stay fit and healthy – and finding the exercise that suits our personality, body, and lifestyle is crucial! I love fitness instructor Lara Hudson’s Pilates DVD (on top) because she’s perfectly paced, encouraging, and full of Pilates moves that are challenging – and yet they feel great.
There’s a new version of 10 Minute Pilates Solutions – also by Anchor Bay Entertainment – by fitness instructor Suzanne Bowen (bottom). Click on either DVD for more information about these wonderful workouts, and read on for Lara’s effective fitness workout tips that will help you achieve your fitness goals…
Effective Fitness Workout Tips From Pilates Instructor Lara Hudson
1. Make your own soundtrack. If you have trouble getting on that treadmill or elliptical machine, music is a great way to motivate you and can set a time structure for your cardio workout. Spend a few minutes at home building a playlist on your iPod – organize your favorite songs so there is a warm up, crescendo and cool down reflected by the music selection, and be sure to give your playlist a time limit – 30 minutes, 45 minutes – so that you stay on that cardio machine until your soundtrack is done!
2. Take fitness classes. Since most gyms offer a vast array of classes included in the price of your membership, taking fitness classes can be an effective workout tip to help you achieve your fitness goals. Classes are great because the instructor designs the workout for you – sometimes it’s hard to create a workout on your own and you may get bored and unmotivated wandering around the gym with no game plan. Doing a variety of classes – circuit, weight training, dance, yoga – will mix it up, keep your workouts exciting, and all you have to do is show up and participate!
3. Work your abs, abs, abs! Your abdominals are some of the largest muscles in your body, and they can be worked out every day. After your cardio workout, drop down onto a mat and do the classical Series of 5 from the Pilates Method. If you’re not familiar with this series, then sign up for a Pilates group class and ask the instructor to teach it to you. The Series of 5 includes 5 different types of sit-ups that work and tone every abdominal muscle in the body, and if done everyday, you’ll have a gorgeous, slender waistline in no time.
4. Stretch, stretch, stretch! At the end of your cardio workout or class, take time for deep stretching. Since your muscles are warm from all the intense work you’ve put them through, they will be ready to lengthen and relax. Breathe deeply and stretch the back of your legs with deep forward folds, stretch your spine with twists, and stretch your shoulders by interlacing your fingers and reaching the arms behind the back. Stretching is a perfect way to calm your body and mind before leaving the gym and returning to your busy life. Plus, stretching is exercise – which makes it an effective workout tip to help you achieve your fitness goals!
For more information about professional Pilates and fitness instructor Lara Hudson, go to MercuryFitness.com.
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