Fitness Exercise

[DkaiksterParticipant 90]

There are in fact, four types of exercises: Strength workouts, Cardiovascular workouts, Flexibility workouts and Fitness Workouts.

Strength workouts are done using weights, to increase your muscle size. Cardiovascular workouts are done to reduce fat from the body (Running, walking, cycling etc.). Flexibility workouts are done to make your tendons and ligaments longer, thus, increasing flexibility. But what I really want to talk about here are the fitness workouts.

What is fitness workout?

It’s a workout that actually works on your joints and prevents a lot of problems due to stress and age. A person who does workout everyday, would end up never having back pain or any kind of joint pains. The best part is, you don’t have to sweat, you don’t have to get tired and you don’t even have to spend more than 5 minutes each day. Sounds too good to be true? But it is true.

A simple example of a fitness workout would be:

Stand straight, arms to the side. Nod your head up and down as if to say “Yes”. Then nod left and right to say “No” (Do both all the way, not just a short no nod). Then tilt your head to each side as if to say “OK”. Then comes the hard part, completely rotate your head (NO! DON”T TURN YOUR HEAD TO SNAP YOUR NECK!) Tilt to side, rotate it downwards in a circular motion to touch your chest with your chin keep rotating until you are looking up at the ceiling and continue. Why is it hard then? You will get a bit dizzy for 2-3 seconds after doing it. But thing is, if you do just 6 nods and 6 tilts and 6 rotates, everyday, you will reduce the chance of spondalysis and neck pain (Apologize for misspelling) drastically.

There are a lot of videos on youtube and stuff where you will find out how to do fitness exercises. I tried to explain it as best as I can, but a picture can describe a thousand words. And a video can do even more.

Gist: Do fitness exercises everyday. You don’t get tired, you don’t sweat, you don’t burn and it does not take even 5 minutes. But the advantage lasts for a lifetime.

[DkaiksterParticipant 90]

Fitness Exercise Routine:

We go from bottom to up.

Toes (There are 36 joints in the feet alone…. or is it 35. I forgot. Not the point.) This simple exercise is good for all:
– Stand straight
– lift your toes and right feet upwards to stand on your heel.
– Touch the ground with right feet big toe while keeping all other toes off the ground.
– change toes to lift the big toe and touch the ground with other toes.
– Repeat with left feet. 10 times each feet.

Knee:

– Bend forward, put your hands on your knees.
– Touch the knees together.
– Then rotate the knees in a circular motion. 10 times clockwise and 10 times counter-clockwise.

Groin Joint:

– Stand on one feet, raise the other knee up so that the leg and thigh are bent 90 degrees at the knee.
– Rotate the leg keeping your feet and leg 180 degrees straight. (It might seem like a knee exercise, but in fact, it works on the groin joint and the ankles)
– Repeat with other leg. 5 times in cw and 5 times ccw for each leg.

Behind the knee and all of hip joints:

– Do a deep squat and keep oscillating up and down a bit. (Don’t stand up and squat, it would become tiring and hard. Fitness exercise is not hard. Just keep squatting and just a bit up and down, as if shaking a ketchup bottle).
– Stand up and bend forward to try and touch your knees with your nose (You don’t actually have to exert yourself, just a bit would do)
– Repeat a few times.

Waist:

– Do a hula hoop motion. 10 times cw and 10 times ccw.

Back:

– Do a backbend for 10 seconds. (Stand with your back to a wall about two feet away. Try to touch the wall with you palm from above your head.)
– Do a front bend and stand up 5 times (Which you might have already done in the above step. Skip if you did.)
– Do a side bend (Self-explanatory)
– Do a twist (Twist your body at the waist. Extremely relaxing and fun.)

Chest:

It is so hard to explain what to do here! I’ll try. Do a chicken wings and then bring your hands inside to touch two elbows together.

Shoulder:

Extend your hands to either sides and then rotate them together first clocwise, then counterclockwise.

Neck:

Already shown in the last post, nod yes, then no, then ok then rotate cw and ccw.

I wish I could be clearer but…. I sure hope it helps.

[DkaiksterParticipant 90]

Skip from 1:30 to 2:30, those are flexibility exercises. You don’t need that to stay fit. You need that to kick higher though…. but we are not going there. And also forget the pushups. We are doing fitness here not strength. And there are parts that are too fancy for you to try. In any case. This video is not a complete fitness exercise. It’s for a warm-up. The reason I linked it is to give you the idea of some of the moves I mentioned in my last post. Follow those moves only, others you can skip if you are looking only for fitness.

[virginmd30Participant 3]

I have a trainer and he really has put me through hell with the workout regimen but man, has it worked. I have went from Seth Rogen skinny to almost to Zac Efron fit. My abs are now showing and I’m working hard each and every day to get that eight pack and great looking chest. I am proud of myself and that has instilled confidence in me.

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