The Importance of Maintaining a Workout Routine
April 17, 2023
When you decide to start to work out, you are committing to training your body for doing something new. Whether you are training for a marathon or a dance competition or simply just want to work out to improve physical power or physique, it’s highly important to maintain a consistent regimen to train your muscles correctly.
For example, when you start a Zumba or yoga class on a Monday, it’s very important to maintain the same day and time to continue that same class consistently. Your body begins to build muscle and each workout regime builds muscles in a different way. If you start a high low class on a Tuesday, you will begin to build muscle in perhaps your pecs and biceps. When you stop or miss a day or a week of working on building these muscles, not only do you risk the potential for losing the strength you spent so much time building, but you risk soreness and potential injury. The similar goes for a yoga or stretching class. The more consistently you work on a stretch, the lower in the stretch or better at the stretch you will get. The reason is you stretch out your muscle every time you work on this stretch. If you miss class for a month, you risk losing the stretch entirely and having to start over from the beginning. When you sit at a desk or not move for a period of time, your body loses its flexibility and becomes stiff.
Aside from building strength or flexibility, you also just naturally get better at something when you practice it. This is especially true for a Zumba or Werq class where a lot of the same combinations are practiced over and over. The more times you come, the better you get! The body becomes strained when it experiences sporadic bouts of excercise. “A gradual increase in intensity will allow your muscles tendons and ligaments a chance to adjust to the strains and challenges of a fitness regimen.” (From Fitday, author editor) Consistency builds muscle, increases cardiovascular awareness and it better for your overall mental health.
