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If personal fitness is your ultimate goal then eating foods that are healthy for your heart should be something you think about and consider daily.

A heart healthy diet consists of grains, fruit, fish and vegetables. Eating a heart healthy diet has been known to reduce your LDL (bad cholesterol) by as much as 30%! As far as personal fitness goes there are few things you can do that are better for you then consuming some of the following foods:

• red wine (my personal favorite)
• nuts (another favorite with fresh water)
• fish
• oats
• green tea
• watermelon
• avocados
• flaxseed

The above list is my list of personal favorites and they are the foods I consume the most to try and meet some of my personal fitness goals. I’ve usually had four of them by 9 AM most days.

I begin most days with a bowl of oatmeal, a multi vitamin, a flaxseed supplement and a green tea pill to wake me up. Usually at 9 I have my first snack which typically consists of some kinds of nut (almonds are my favorite) and bottled water.

You may be thinking to yourself:

“Geez this guy eats like a gerbil”

And I should note that the rest of my meals are a lot more what you would consider normal as I have kids and they can’t go like 7 days without having McDonalds you know. Any how that’s how I meet a lot of my personal fitness goals… I get them out of my way early in the day so I can spend the day focusing on moreimportant stuff.

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Starting your own personal workout program isn’t as hard as you may think and with the tips I outline in this post I think you’ll see that it’s actually quite easy.

The most important thing to remember when developing your own personal workout program is to not spend too much time on it as it it is something that should always be changing. As you body adapts to the exercise routines you throw at it you’ll have to adjust and change your workout routines to fight off stagnation.

The first thing you’ll want to determine is how many days per week you can workout. I’d recommend somewhere between 3-5 days per week. Anything less is not enough and anything more is too much. When you start to design your workout program you’ll basically want to work out each major body part at least once per week.

To get all of your body parts in you’ll have to combine some of them and here’s how I would recommend you do it if you were going to begin a 4 day per week personal workout program.

Day One

Quads (thighs), hamstrings and calves

Day Two

Back, Rear Shoulders/delts and abs

Day Three

Chest and Triceps and calves

Day Four

Shoulders, Traps and abs

This is known as a push-pull split in the bodybuilding world and it is quite effective. I normally recommend you work out for no longer then 45 minutes to an hour because anything longer and your body just really starts to under perform. It’s always a good idea to begin each workout with a good warm up and I usually recommend a good 15 minute cardio warm up.

Well there you have it. Starting your first personal workout program doesn’t have to be difficult. Stay tuned for more tips on how you can fine tune your workout program for better results.

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Guys as far as personal fitness training goes there is nothing better you can do for your body and your well-being then working out with weights.

Believe me when I tell you that I’ve heard every excuse in the book from people and clients that would rather do pretty much anything else in the book then work out with weights.

Working out with weights is not easy, it’s hard and a lot of the time it can be painful but there is no personal workout program in the history of working out and exercising that can be and is more beneficial to your overall health and well-being.

Working out with weights burns more calories then just about any other form of exercise in the book.

Working out with weights will result in a more toned and hard body.

Working out with weights will result in an increased metabolism.

And working out with weights will also increase your mental strength and focus.

Guys I can go on and on about all the numerous health benefits that working out with weights would provide you but the best thing for you to do would be to get in the gym (after seeing your doctor) and get in a few workouts for yourself.

Your personal fitness training program doesn’t have to be extremely rigorous and you actually want to take it easy at the beginning because you don’t want to overly tax your body in your first few workouts because you may end up sore as hell and believe me that wouldn’t be a good thing.

Once you get your first weight workouts under your belt you’ll see that you want to get back into the gym and that you want to eat better and that you want to stay active and that’s why I recommend you just get into the gym, try it for a month and see if you don’t get addicted like everyone else in the gym.

Personal fitness training, eating healthy and staying in shape is all great but why not make the best use of your time and use weight training workouts to look as good as you feel in half the time?

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