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Your Fitness Journey This Season

Myths around summer bodies are certainly true, they are built in the winter. But whatever your ambition, it’s never too late to start your fitness routine.

The spring and summer months are the perfect time to kick-start or intensify your training as increased levels of vitamin D improve natural day-to-day energy. The increase in this vitamin also releases hormones that help make us happier whilst also boosting our metabolism – improving calorie burn by up to 25%! Why wouldn’t you make the most of this extra calorie burn?

Our ancestors were built to hunt, lead active lifestyles and so establishing daily fitness routines in the spring can really help to offset the negative effects of a modern, busy lifestyle. Not only that,

1. Progressive overload

Make sure you keep track on what weight and repetitions you do for each exercise, so you can ensure you are gradually adding weight, to help your body adapt and build muscle.

2. Add pauses and slow tempo repetitions

Having control over the technique of any exercise is crucial when building muscle. Adding a pause where you find the exercise most difficult e.g. at the bottom of a squat, can help to build extra muscle without having to increase the weights, repetitions or sets.

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but regular training helps to make us feel good and releases hormones such as the happiness hormone oxytocin. Daily chores and tasks can become more overbearing in the summer. For example, travelling in high temperatures is not pleasant, sitting in a crowded office

3. Balanced nutrition

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We all enjoy a nice treat after a workout as a reward, however, we need to ensure that we are eating a balanced diet regularly including carbohydrates, fats and protein to build muscle.

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in the heat can feel suppressive, and wearing a suit when the days are stifling can become claustrophobic. You owe it to yourself to then take that pent-up pressure and release it in a positive way. What better way to do this than find a new gym routine, join a new outdoor class or train with friends.

4. Compound exercises

Add exercises that work multiple muscle groups at the same time e.g. deadlift for full body or bench press for the upper body, will allow you to utilise a heavier weight compared with an exercise which isolates a muscle group.