Tips to help you get fitter and faster

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Life's Top Tips

Life's experienced and motivational fitness instructors, have joined forces to bring you some top tips to help improve your fitness levels and make your exercise regime more enjoyable and rewarding.

Allan's Challenge

If you're looking for a fitness challenge to guarantee a great bi-kini body this summer, we can help you get into shape with one of our motivational boot camps.  We're achieving phenomenal results (check out the Boot Camp section of this site for more details).

Boot Camps last for 3 weeks and in June and July we are running our first six week camp.

The Life Summer Boot Camps include a range of indoor and outdoor activties in the club and around Fendrod Lake.  We weigh, measure and check your body fat% at the beginning and the end of the camps so you can see exactly how many inches you've lost.  You'll also be amazed at how your fitness levels will increase due to the varied but challenging training programme we put you through.

Our boot camps are idea as a short, sharp body toning fitness boost..... sing up today.... you know you want to!

The 12 visit challenge

If you're a regular at your gym or fitness centre, you need a challenge to keep you motivated and to give you a focus during each training session.  

Over 12 visits, try and cover 34,000 metres on the rowing machine.  This is equivalent  to rowing acorss the English Channel and will take your fitness up to the next level, as well as helping you to tone and lose weight.

Suggestions from Steve

You have to push yourself in the gym. Too many people are just going through the motions. You have to get your heart rate up get yourself a bit out of  breath. If you can’t. come and see me and I’ll see what I can do.

One for the women! for women.  To work your thighs and glutes do exercises such as lunges, squat and step ups - and avoid the AB and AD machines, they'll  do nothing for you.  These exercise are harder but if you persist they will work.

Get Psyched up with Sue

I can’t seem to get down to the gym?  My mind is willing but my body just seems to say ‘no’.  Does this sound like you?

If it does, check out advice on our website from our fitness instructor Sue to help you get back into the fitness fold.

If this scenario applies to you then perhaps it is time to take break.  It is actually OK to take some time off if you need to. 

Alternatively, you could try doing something for fun instead.  Try a 5k charity walk or go for a relaxing hike around the Gower, it’s great at the moment in the Spring sunshine. 

Maybe you just need to regroup and reassess.  Try getting a work out partner or trainer if you feel you have to have someone to kick you up the backside and get you motivated

I was talking to one of our members the other day who had been made unemployed for the 4^th time.  What he said was, ‘at least I have my health’. He was totally miserable and unmotivated, but he was right..his workouts were the only constant in his life and gradually got back into it.

Just remember - your heart and your body are trying to tell you something, and if you stop and listen, you can't go wrong.  If you don’t use it, you could lose it!

If you get your frame of mind right for exercise then your body will follow. You need to believe in yourself as you can do anything if you set your mind to it.  Before exercising or planning a new regime, you should always think back to how you feel after exercising.  This feeling release endorphins into your body which in turn will increase your strength, speed and stamina.

If you have any special questions or need advice, email us at info@lifegyms.co.uk or call 01792 547777 to book a FREE consultation with Life fitness instructor.