Trainers help athletes focus on workouts that enhance their bodies and prepare them for particular sports. It often involves mixing in tricks and tips that you might not expect. A healthy diet can make a huge difference, but so can mindset. Trying new ways to exercise and creating new routines is another. Mixing it up helps work muscles on different planes. It boosts fitness by ensuring your body experiences the potential blocks to success.
Including anaerobic training in your workout helps.
Anaerobic training includes high intensity interval training—HIIT—or weight lifting, sprinting, and plyometrics. It provides many benefits for the athlete. It increases muscle strength and power, improves circulation, boosts heart and lung function, and decreases inflammation. Instead of focusing strictly on steady-state aerobic workouts, mix those with anaerobic workouts that are high-intensity and vigorous.
Mixing it up can bring renewed energy to your training.
Everyone gets bored if they do it too often, no matter how important or how much they enjoy it. Switching up your workouts and adding new things can help keep you focused as you learn new routines. It can also make working out more enjoyable and work your body in new ways. Learning new exercises stimulates the brain to create new neural pathways. It increases BDNF—brain-derived neurotropic factor—in the brain. It stimulates the improvement of executive functioning. Being a star athlete takes more than physical fitness. It takes mental strength, too. The more you boost your brain power, the better athlete you’ll be.
Give your body a chance to recover with recovery workouts.
You can’t push yourself to the maximum daily and expect it to perform its best. It requires time to recover from an intense workout. Mixing up your workouts allows that. If you’re doing well-rounded training, which includes recovery exercises with low to moderate intensity, you’ll protect your body from unnecessary injury. You’ll increase your stamina, build strength, and improve reaction time and skills.
- Even if you’re a basketball player or runner, strength training is important. You’ll improve your performance by ensuring your muscles are prepared to maintain proper form. You’ll build stamina and power.
- By adding variety to your workout, you’ll ensure that you aren’t overworking specific muscle groups. That can lead to stress injuries. Working all the muscles ensures they’re ready when necessary.
- Mixing up your workout can include family time or time with friends. Going biking, hiking, dancing, or swimming provides a social outlet and cherished time with the kids but still boosts your fitness.
- Mixing it up can help avoid muscle imbalances by working all muscle groups. Not everyone responds the same to an exercise. Some people benefit more. Others see no change. When you have more diversity, you have more opportunities to find what works.
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