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Optimising Your Fitness Plan

by Galway

The health and fitness market is one of the biggest growing
branches of commercialism in the world today.

Not a day goes by without being able to open up a multitude of
newspapers to be told things like don't eat too many
carbohydrates, sugars or fats. We are to drink gallons of water
every day, vary our diets with a plethora of fruit and vegetables
and if we haven't got all day to be chewing, just juice them.

There's the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, the
chocolate lovers diet, the macrobiotic diet and a wide choice of
detox diets. Personally, I'm in favour of the see food diet. See
food and eat it.

Sometimes we get told the best way to stay healthy is to eat
little and often, another time to eat three square meals a day.

There are foods to lower blood pressure, increase blood
pressure, calm our moods, liven our moods, foods to gain weight
and lose weight, combat tiredness or help us sleep more. The list
is never ending and if we listened to it all we'd have no time in
a day to do anything but work out what mood we were in, what our
bodies were capable of that particular day and what we were going
to eat next.

If we listened to all the scare stories of foods that cause
cancer, senile dementia or hyperactivity we would be feeding our
children and ourselves nothing but meal replacement powders.

With all this information at our fingertips, it would seem
people are still unable to moderate their own eating habits when
you consider the rising incidents of obesity and the burgeoning
diet clubs. Drive past any gym in the next few weeks and see
advertising boards offering us special deals to sign up for the
New Year and lose those Christmas pounds.

We can make our New Year's resolutions, work out a regime for
the gym promising ourselves we'll be rigidly attending every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a two hour session and get the
body we want. We turn up, sweat like crazy, stick it out for a
few weeks and then feel dis-heartened because we can't see any
difference.

A personal trainer is a good idea because they can work out a
personal plan depending on your current fitness level but they
are still restricted by the information you give them.

One of the most useful tools for health and fitness on the
market today is personal heart rate monitors. Worn on the wrist
like a watch, they will constantly assess things like blood
pressure and heart rate. These things are affected on a daily,
sometimes hourly basis, by numerous influences such as health,
diet, temperature, hormones and emotions.

If you pay attention to your heart rate monitor then every work
out, whether it be at the gym or your weekly shopping trip, will
be geared towards optimum performance. If your heart rate is
particularly high one day, there is no point in pushing your body
over the limit at the gym. It will put excess strain on your
organs and your body will put all its resources into maintenance
for those organs instead of the areas you are trying to work on.

Your heart rate monitor can also give you an indication of just
how relaxed you are. If your stress levels are high, and
sometimes we are not aware of this, then we can take practical
steps to reduce it. Working your body to its optimum will have
more far reaching effects than just starving and pushing it. It
will also be more time efficient and cost effective. There will
be no need for costly diets, just a balanced diet and an
occasional check on your heart rate monitor.

Health expert Shaun Parker looks at the effectiveness of <a
href="http://www.bodyshapersfitness.com/">heart rate monitors</a>
on fitness regimes. To find out more please visit
http://www.bodyshapersfitness.com/

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