Before starting a personal fitness program it is important to take time to do some research on what's available both online and offline and to identify what is the best fitness program for your personal needs.
I found three websites that provided excellent information for someone serious about starting a personal fitness program.
The 'Mayo Clinic' website published an article: "Fitness programs: 5 steps to getting started"; 'About. Com' has a guide entitled: "Top 6 Online Training Websites" and 'Health Webinar Programs' presented a review of a webinar by a certified personal trainer.
The Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic staff covered details of: assessing your fitness level, designing your fitness program, assembling your equipment, getting started and monitoring your progress.
Assessing your fitness level they suggested, should include recording baseline fitness scores against which progress can be measured:
Your pulse rate before and after you walk a mile.
How long it takes you to walk a mile.
How many push-ups you can do at a time.
How far you can reach forward while seated on the floor with your legs in front of you.
Your waist circumference as measured around your bare abdomen just above your hipbone.
Your body mass index.
In designing your fitness program, they suggested to be clear about your fitness goals. Are you starting your fitness program to lose weight, prepare for a marathon or do you have some other goal? They also suggested to build activity into your daily routine in order to go at your own pace while ensuring that you create a balanced routine.
About.Com
About.Com presented information on six websites that offered online personal training at "reasonable prices". One of those websites was specifically targeted to women. That website was 'Workouts for Women'.
The other websites recommended by About.Com were: Plus One Active, Global Health & Fitness, Gym America, Workout.Com, and Fantasy Fit.
Fees range from $9.95 for 12 weeks to $29.99 a month. One website offers $35.40 for a year.
Health Webinar Programs
The certified personal trainer's webinar which was reviewed on Health Webinar Programs, however, presented a wider dimension to physical fitness that discussed the impact of stress, our emotions and relationships on our health and what to do about them.
One would NOT normally consider those wider aspects when we think about personal physical fitness. They can however mean the difference between health and wellness or illness and disease according to the certified personal trainer.
The question her ideas have raised is: Can non-physical aspects of our life really impact on the effectiveness of our personal physical fitness program?
The Health Webinar Programs [http://webinar-programs.com/] website reported that the certified personal trainer helps her clients to discover their unique 'fitness personality' to achieve enjoyment in a personalised fitness program and get big results.Some other questions that were raised to consider included:
How to end emotional eating, portion distortion, mindless munching and stinkin' thinkin'
How your beliefs, behaviors, habits, relationships and stress level are causing health/wellness or illness/disease...and what to do about it.One final question: How do you get access to the certified personal trainer full recorded webinar? Check the Health Webinar Programs website for the answer! [http://webinar-programs.com/]
Oh! By the way - Are these the best online personal training tips?
Review by Louis Blake
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