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What is a fitness plan and how does it work? Find all the answers below.

Unlike what most people think fitness should not be necessary related to strong physiques or young athletes. With just spending a minimum of half an hour every day, most dieters may take advantage of this discipline, which allows recovering motion and muscle tone in a non-aggressive way.

First of all, the idea of fitness is to improve health while keeping a good body shape. Those general objectives allow some freedom in terms of routines; so the first step is making a reasonable plan of activities, keeping these two objectives in mind. The fitness plan must include the following basic points, and can be divided in three days a week, with a minimum of half an hour each one:

Types of work: fitness plans

Aerobic/Muscle/Flexibility:

Running
Cycling
Jumping rope
Fast-paced walking
Aerobic dance
Tennis
Soccer
Basketball
Swimming
Muscle-strengthening exercises
Resistance training by weight lifting
Stating stretching exercises. Hold for 15 to 30 seconds, repeat three to five times.

Usually, being overweight combined with inactivity provokes a progressive loss of motion, a condition that of course gets worse with age, making the person feel heavy and finding it hard to do even simple things, which keeps the cycle going. However, by elaborating and following a simple fitness plan that includes the three main types of work, this cycle can be broken. It is important to do some warming-up before starting every session, usually taking 10 minutes to perform the chosen activity at a slow and non-demanding rhythm. In all cases the activities' intensity must elevate gradually, as the body condition progresses.

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