TOP 5 FITNESS TIPS

1. WORK OUT ALL DAY
Work at all day, every day. For example:
Walk up stairs with enthusiasm and good posture.
When you vacuum I want you in a good forward stance and you are aware that you are alternating chest and back exercises. Change hands every now and then to give equal work to your right and left sides.
If you drop something on the floor I want you to do a perfect deadlift or lunge to pick it up.
When reaching for something, lift your rear food off the ground as if you were performing a single leg Romanian dead lift.

2. CROSS TRAIN TO GET A BALANCE OF CARDIOVASCULAR, STRENGTH, FLEXIBILITY, AND CHOOSE EXERCISES THAT CHALLANGE YOUR BALANCE.
Perform active stretching exercises before you workout. Strength training activities use weight or your own body weight to provide resistance. Cardiovascular activities are also called "heart-racing activities" where an elevated breathing rate is maintained for an extended period of time. The best time to perform static, or "still" stretching is after you exercise, or at night before you go to sleep.

3. THINK IN TERMS OF PUSHING AND PULLING
Your workout plan should integrate pushing and pulling motions. For example, alternate chest with back, thighs with hamstrings, and biceps with triceps.By alternating pushing and pulling movements, you allow proper time rest. While you are exercising your chest, your back is getting a rest and vice versa. Some people like to alternate pushing and pulling each day -I like to alternate pushing and pulling each workout. This is mainly because I want reciprocal muscle groups to be tight together.

4. EXERCISE LARGE MUSCLE GROUPS FIRST (UNLESS YOU ARE DOING A TOTAL BODY WORKOUT)
You are supposed to work out the largest muscle groups first. For example, fatiguing your triceps before exercising your chest would not be advantageous.

The largest muscle groups for the upper body are your chest (pushing) and back (pulling).
The largest muscle groups on the lower body include the thighs (pushing) and hamstrings (pulling).

After you have exercised your chest/back or thighs/hamstrings, you can sprinkle in the smaller body parts (shoulders, biceps, triceps, calves, abdominals, lower back, obliques, etc).

Most trainers begin with legs when performing a total body workout because the legs include the largest muscle(s) of the body. When I design a total body workout I prefer to start with chest and back. I save the legs for later because I utilize the legs during every exercise. For example, if I wear out the legs by working them first thing, my client will have little left when I make her do a single leg dumbbell row. Therefore, when performing total body workout, I like to do chest/back first and about 30 minutes into the workout I will start legs.

5. DO NOT PUT THE RADIO SO LOUD
Do not put your MP3 player so loud. Obnoxiously loud music takes away from maintaining steady breathing patterns and keeping good form. A loud sensory input overloads your attention system and less focus will be dedicated on your exercising technique or breath. What's the first thing people do when they are driving in a car and get lost? They turn the radio down because there is too much stimuli at once.