Fitness Concept offers fast, easy workouts

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KUCHING: Most studies find that the daily diet and lifestyle of people nowadays makes it easy to put on weight. The results are unsightly bulges that are difficult to get rid of.

FITNESS WORKOUT: Kick start a healthy year with Fitness Concept.

FITNESS WORKOUT: Kick start a healthy year with Fitness Concept.

There is a solution to getting rid of these bulges and the answer lies in a well designed individualised workout programme which will restore people to what they were before the bulges took over.

Kick start a New Year resolution on health and fitness with the knowledge, precision and focus in the task ahead. To lose weight, firstly, define and set achievable goals. Reduce high calorie foods like refined carbohydrates, fats and increase the volume or duration of aerobic workouts.

Next, a change in nutritional habit is encouraged even for people who are not on diet.  Nutritional habits include eating at regular intervals avoiding snacks, extra salt and sweets. However the diet should be balanced making up of all the nutrients required by the body to maintain or improve health.

Thirdly, movement is the prime ingredient to achieving health and fitness. The procrastination and excuses for not working out will lead to failure to achieve goals.

Besides, the workouts should be between a minimum of 20 minutes to an hour per session, three times per week or depending upon the routine. The workout should be designed progressive in intensity, volume and frequency.

The exercise should also be sequentially arranged, working alternately between upper and lower body and easy to follow. A circuit training format is adequate and to enhance greater results, circuit weight training is recommended.

In addition, self discipline, focus and motivation are the qualities that make the difference between success and failure. These qualities are intrinsic values. Extrinsic values are the changes in the body structure and the replacement of undesirable curves with that of desirable curves.

In conclusion, to kick start a workout requires a system of setting and understanding the desired objectives, modification of nutritional habit, keeping track of intrinsic and extrinsic motivational values in particular the desire to achieve.

Fitness Concept outlets are at tHe Spring, Kuching (first floor) and Bintang Megamall, Miri (first floor).

For more information, members of the public can log on to www.fitness-concept.com.my or send health and fitness enquiries to [email protected] to kick start a healthy year.