THE IMPORTANCE AND BENEFITS OF GYM TRAINING
WHAT IS GYM TRAINING
Gym training has become an essential part of our life to keep up with our lifestyle choices and getting fit has become a necessity to live a long life. So what is gym training and what goes on in a gym?
In a traditional gym, there are cardio machines like treadmill, elliptical, rowing machine, stationary bikes; there are circuit training machines like the shoulder press, chest press, leg press, lat pull-down; and then there are weights like dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells and so on.
Gym members are usually encouraged to hit all of them and mix their workouts to get the maximum result. This will help them to target each muscle group a day and provide enough time to recover between workouts.
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THE THREE TYPES OF GYM-GOERS
People often go to the gym to lose weight, especially if it’s the first time they have ever set foot in one. But fitness has become so popular and much needed in our fast-paced life especially since we eat out a lot, and have erratic schedules around work, sleep, and social life.
Getting fit has become a necessity, and gym training has become an essential part of our life to keep up with our lifestyle choices and to live a long life.
This brings us to the second category of people, the ones who hit the gym to look and feel fit. They are the ones who are usually seen working with weights and sweating it out on the mats. They are the regulars who know all the trainers by name and they don’t miss a day of workout unless it’s a Sunday.
The final kinds of gym-goers are professional athletes. They train to maintain and improve stamina, endurance, flexibility, and agility required to keep their competitive edge during a game.
GYM TRAINING FOR SPORTS FITNESS
Why do professional sportspeople train in a gym? Even though athletes practice their sport regularly, to truly improve their game it’s important to train in a gym to support that goal.
Hitting the gym at least twice or thrice a week can help build muscle strength including smaller muscle groups that will ensure they don’t get injured during a game. It’s important for them to add dynamic movements into their fitness routine to improve their mobility to match the full range of motions they require when they’re competing in a game.
Gym training is also essential for sports as they allow athletes to stretch that goes beyond initial warm-up stretches, or the cool-down stretches they normally end with after a game. This will allow their muscles to open up, especially around the hips which essentially supports your quick movements and change in directions to avoid collision injuries in contact sports.
Although a lot of athletes and sports people don’t prefer to bulk up, they should include strength training and other types of workout regimens along with the right nutrition and diet plan that improves and develops their ability to stay competitive. They can modify their workout so as to build strength over muscles but it’s essential they don’t skip time in a gym.
Different Types Of Physical Activities
It’s highly recommended that adults practice some form of physical activity to stay fit. As you grow older, this will help decrease your risk of falls, lower your risk of injury, improve heart health, manage your blood sugar levels, and more. For maintaining or improving physical fitness and to avoid any health-related risks, a variety of physical activities are recommended by experts.
Aerobic Activity: This will improve your body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness. It also requires minimal skill and can be modified to your fitness level. Some aerobic activities for physical fitness include brisk walking, cycling, swimming, aqua-aerobics, and slow dancing.
Muscle-Strengthening Activities: This will improve muscular strength and fitness and will also improve your endurance. Exercises that fall under resistance training and weight training can enable your muscles to work more as it involves moderate to high levels of intensity that activate major muscle groups.
Stretching Activity: This improves flexibility such as range of motion in your shoulders, arms, back, hips, and legs. This includes active stretching, dynamic stretching, slow movements such as flexing and rotating movements that can help reduce the risk of injury.
Neuromuscular Activity: This will improve neuromuscular fitness like balance and agility. These exercises are generally prescribed to improve the quality of movement and achieve functional stability.
Some of these exercises can be performed with minimum supervision while others require a personal trainer to guide you along the way. However, if you fall under the special population’s category it’s important that you have a certified trainer supervising you so as to avoid any risk of injury.
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SPECIAL POPULATION TRAINING AND NUTRITION OR DIET CONSULTING
Training Special Populations is becoming a competitive niche in the fitness world. It is considered to be the need of the hour in the personal training industry and is growing rapidly.
Special Populations are those who require more supervision owing to their health issues and who require an exercise program that is tailored to their needs. These include people with heart diseases, diabetes, chronic illnesses, spinal injuries, senior citizens, and transient situations like pregnancy and postpartum.
Training them involves designing a special program, for instance, training pregnant women. Pregnant women aren’t allowed to lift heavy weights or do intense workouts. However, they need to stay physically active to ensure they smoothly sail to term and give natural birth.
Special populations training requires personal trainers to get certified so they can focus their expertise better. They are aware of all the nitty-gritty behind rehabilitation and recovery; the right way to train children, pregnant women and seniors, or people who need to stay fit to stay healthy, and help them in their efforts to live with their medical conditions.
This brings us to their nutrition and diet as it plays a huge role in managing their health. This includes a low cholesterol/low-fat diet, low/no concentrated sweets, sodium-restricted diet, renal diet, and so on.
It’s important to find the right team of experts to help guide people who fall under this category, as they require not only more supervision during workouts but also special diets tailored to their needs.
That being said, Fitnesometry is a great place to find your perfect team of trainers and dieticians. Whatever category you fall under, we can help you achieve your goals and meet your needs.