Add Variety To Your Workout Routine
Feeling a little bored with your fitness routine?
We all get one-track-minded sometimes when it comes to choosing workouts, which ultimately leads us to plateaus and boredom. How do we add variety to our fitness? Here are a few different exercise options that can really add great depth and variety to your fitness routine!
Climbing
Climbing activities have great benefit for us. Not only is it a great strength exercise, but climbing is also all about ENDURANCE while developing BALANCE, CO-ORDINATION and CORE STABILITY. Add a day or two of climbing to your routine and it will add an awesome dynamic aspect to your training.
Drumming
That’s right folks, I said DRUMMING. Being a drummer myself, I find many positive exercise benefits that transfer over from DRUMMING into modern fitness. DRUMMING is also about a combination of STRENGTH and ENDURANCE, while promoting increased neurological development with PATTERNS, SEQUENCING, and TIMING. DRUMMING has also been noted as a top DE-STRESSING activity, promoting RELAXATION and a HEALTHY IMMUNE SYSTEM by Dr. Barry Bittman.
Boxing
Like other martial arts, BOXING provides a fast paced CARDIO and STRENGTH building activity into one package. BOXING builds TIMING, SPEED, and POWER and provides an awesome outlet to RELIEVE STRESS. BOXING promotes a great deal of CORE ACTIVITY as well AGILITY and also improves EYE-HAND CO-ORDINATION. BOXING will make you SWEAT! It is still one of the top FAT-BURNING exercises out there!
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Give these fitness activities a try, and see how it adds variety to your workout routine!
Eric Zimmerman is a Your House Fitness personal trainer based in Toronto, ON. To view his profile click on his name.