Avoid these Workout Mistakes!

Top MISTAKES:

Taking too many long breaks during workouts and following the same old routine.

Research shows that the correct amount of rest time between sets is 30-60 seconds. This gives the muscle enough time to recover so you can give maximum effort during the next exercise.

And what should you be doing during those 60 seconds that you're waiting? I suggest doing what I have my clients do and that is to stretch the muscles that were just worked. This will enhance recovery even more and make it so you're not just wasting time walking around.

Then there's the problem with following the same old routine. Which applies to strength training as well as to cardio workouts. A strength training routine should be changed every 4-6 weeks. And cardio workouts can change by varying the resistance, levels, distance, time or intervals. Here's something you can try on your
next workout. Warm up for a couple of minutes then do a high intensity for 1 minute, recover at a low intensity then go as hard as you can for 1 minute, recover for a minute etc. Just keep repeating this cycle for 10-15 minutes and you're done. Try mixing this into your routine.

The other 3 workout mistakes are cheating, socializing
instead of sweating and not hitting the weights hard enough.

posted by Sacred Steve at 4/15/2006 06:32:00 AM