24/10/2022
ELEVATE DAY 1🔥
An F45 workout is 45 minutes, taking up only 3% of your day. Therefore, we want to ensure our time spent in the studio is as efficient as possible.
So, how do we maximize our workouts?
➡️Here are 3 things that you can do prior to your session that will result in a more effective and beneficial workout.
1. Mindset🔹 Like anything, exercise starts with your mentality. We all have days where we just do not feel like it. We might show up with a negative mindset and complete the bare minimum at the gym. Switching to a results-focused mindset during workouts can help preserve performance, especially on days that you do not feel like working out. It is important, in order to achieve sustainable success, to develop a positive mental fitness routine. Begin with finding your key drivers, why is exercise is important to you? Maybe it is to reduce stress, feel better in front of the mirror, or to keep up with the kids. Reminding yourself of these reasons can be a key motivator in getting you to the studio on those hard days.
2. Mobility & Activation🔹 F45 provides a dynamic warm up before each session that incorporates some mobility and activation exercises to increase range of movement and promote blood flow to muscles. Increasing range of movement will allow you to dial up the level of intensity you are working at. For example, being able to do a deeper squat will recruit more muscles, meaning more calories burnt. Performing mobility and activation exercises before a workout will also significantly reduce the chance of injury as opposed to jumping into a workout from a resting state.
3. Recovery🔹 Recovery is the most important part of any fitness routine. Not only does it prevent injuries, but this is when muscle growth happens. If you are hitting the same muscle in the same way every day, there is less time for the cells to repair the muscles, resulting in less time for results of muscle growth and strength.
It is also important for injury prevention that you take plenty of time between workouts for muscles to recover‼️
📄Source: Scott Thompson, Global Athletics Director | F45 Challenge App
