Ten Essential Tips For Exercising

1. Besides checking with your doctor before commencing any exercise programme, listen to your body:  If you     feel any pain or discomfort, stop immediately.
   
2. Movements should always be rhythmic, controlled and slow, never jerky or hurried.
   
3. Always warm up before doing any form of exercise.
   
4. Never overwork or overstretch your body.  Look for warning signals such as feeling faint, pain or nausea.
   
5. Relate the level of your workout to your environment and your own physical condition.  If you haven't     exercised for 30 years, take it very slowly at first and increase your activity as you become fitter.
   
6. Always wear suitable clothing.  Correct footwear is particularly important, especially when doing aerobic     exercise.
   
7. If you become fit enough to do many repetitions of the exercise, beware of possible overuse of a particular     joint or joints.  Go on to an exercise that uses different muscles and joints, before returning to the original     exercise.  Vary high-impact and low-impact aerobic exercises in the same way.
   
8. You should be able to feel your muscles 'working' in the strength, endurance and stretching exercises.  If not,     check with the instructions and picture that you are doing the exercise correctly.
   
9. Be disciplined about your workout. Plan a time each day to do your exercises and then stick to it. 
   
10. Never exercise immediately after a meal.  Make sure that you wait at least 1 - 1.1/2 hours.