Workout Breakdown

About this time you might be wondering where  exactly you are heading with your workout – far off into the distant future.

We have discussed that this first five minutes will essentially be the warm up stage of your eventual routine, but what else will you have, and when are you going to do what bits?

I have thought about this at length – as I  imagine myself floating effortlessly though 52 minutes a day, with barely a beaded brow. I have decided my eventual routine will be something like this:

5 mins of warm up

35 mins of cardio or strength training (alternative days)

5 mins of cool down

7 mins of stretching

But the thing is – I think the stretching part is pretty important quite early on. So my plan is to add a couple of minutes of stretching in the next two weeks, BEFORE starting to do the main body of the exercise.  Then I’ll add a bit of cooldown, a bit more of the stretching and then more of the main bit. I like to think of it as Mix and Match Exercise! It may seem that I’m putting off doing the real grunt work for as long as possible, but that is only partly true I promise! It is also that I don’t want to be in a situation where I go flat out for twenty minutes, but haven’t incorporated any of the cool down/stretching that is essential to any well-balanced exercise routine.

You must of course make your own decisions – but I thought I’d let you know where my thinking lies at this stage.  I’m actually really looking forward to the stretching. There was a time in the far off past when I could do the splits. Now if I managed to do that again by year’s end, I’d be well-chuffed!

So now, why don’t you start thinking about what your ideal routine would look like, and then you too can get on with doing it, one minute at a time….

Suzi