 Take your time when toning your
body. You can maximize the benefit of a biceps strength training exercise, a back
strength training exercise, a chest strength training exercise, and so on, by doing
them in small blocks of time every day.
Although it is recommended that a person should take at least thirty to sixty minutes
each day, you don't have to spend all of it weight training—you probably do physical
activity that counts as exercise every day (such as walking up stairs).
In your weight training routine, you don't have to work all your target areas at
once. Instead, work one area a day for about 20 minutes. For example, your program
might look like this:
- Monday: Chest and Back Weight Training for 20 min.
- Tuesday: Shoulder Strength Exercise for 20 min.
- Wednesday: Abs Weight Training for 20 min.
- Thursday: Biceps and Triceps Strength Training for 20 min.
- Friday: Grab Bag/Wild Card for 20 min.
- Saturday: Hip and Thigh Weight Training for 20 min.
- Sunday: Chest and Shoulder Strength Training for 20 min.
Choose a set of exercises for each day and follow your weight training program.
You can vary it, especially as you add more reps to your arm curls, incline chest
presses, shoulder presses, and kickbacks. Remember, you don't have to devote countless
hours to working out to look and feel good.
It is extremely important
to maintain flexibility, and strengthen the muscles around
your remaining sound hip, back, abdomen, and torso. I suggest you do the following
exercises on a floor mat (you can even do them in bed if necessary)
without a prosthetic
on, in loose, comfortable clothing. Take it slow and easy. Remember to breathe in
a regular, relaxed way.
Do these exercises 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes
at night. Never strain, don’t force it, if any movement hurts, STOP!
There are so many ways to start your daily exercise and it doesn’t even take much
time or effort to get into shape unless you do take some of your precious time to
get that workout going.
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