Workout

TamilynV

Hi all, I'm new to this program! I find this program pretty easy to navigate through. If anyone has tips on workouts, please let me know. Thanks

AnnPT77

Hello, and welcome!

I'm not sure how to give you workout tips, because you haven't given us much info about what you're looking for. What kind of workout tips are you looking for, or what kind of workouts are you interested in doing, or what are the goals you hope to achieve by working out?

The generic advice I have is that if you're a relative beginner, start gradually with something very moderate, and ideally fun for you (at least tolerable and practical). Ideally, it would be just a manageable challenge to your current capability. Feeling energized for the rest of the day is a good sign, vs. being exhausted. (A few minutes of "whew" right after the workout is fine.)

Set the type of exercise, how long you do it, how often you do it, and how hard you go at it in the session with that "manageable challenge" idea in mind.

After you do that for a while, the workout will start feeling more easy than mildly challenging. At that point, do something to get back to a manageable challenge: Do it more often, for longer, at higher intensity or even change exercise type to increase the challenge a little.

Keep going like that as you progress, to keep a manageable challenge in the picture. My idea is that the "ideally fun" part makes you want to do the exercise, the "challenge" part creates fitness progress, and the "manageable" part avoids fatigue that can suck calorie burn out of the rest of the day (from dragging through the day and resting more) plus reduces the risk of injury.

In the long run, if the goal is general health, the recommended minimums (from US experts, not me) are to do 150 minutes a week of moderate cardiovascular exercise, ideally spread over at least 5 days, or 75 minutes of more intense cardiovascular exercise, or a proportionate combination; and also 2 days a week of some kind of strength exercise. That's a thing to work up to, if a beginner, and if the goal is general health and basic fitness.

If you mentioned what you were hoping to get out of workouts, or what you're doing now, I or others might be able to give you more personalized advice. You might also take a look around in the Fitness and Exercise part of the Community, and get ideas from the kinds of things other here are doing.

Best wishes!