Work out and help out for fitness

The best way to start a new year is to do it on a healthy note — haven’t all our resolutions been towards losing weight and being healthy?

But as always we find it difficult to find the right starting point. Alternatively, in our exuberance we forget the limits of our own body.

“It is amazing what the body can do when you do the right thing,” said Sandra Koeder, master trainer and health coach at Technogym. “Our body has two priorities for survival: to breathe and to move but also to relax and to recover.”

Koeder charts five fitness trends for tabloid! that one can include for an overall healthy and result-oriented exercise regime. However, Koeder suggests another path to overall good health that may not necessarily have to do with a rigorous workout.

“Did you know that whether you are the giver, the receiver or the observer of an act of kindness, you reap tremendous benefits to your health?” Koeder asks. “One of the most fascinating research findings to come out in recent years is that whenever a simple act of kindness is extended by a human being towards another, it results in a significant improvement in the functioning of the immune system. Think about kindness, sharing and caring it can make you stronger and happier in the combination with all that’s mentioned here”.

Body weight training with classical pull-ups and push-ups. This form of training is getting popular in most gyms and fitness clubs. Try it out, maybe this fitness season will change your life.

Small group fitness training, functional training is on for 2015.

This workout usually calls for short bursts of high-intensity exercise followed by a short recovery time. Due to its efficiency at burning calories and building muscles, it has become a favourite in the world of fitness. Technogym has developed a tool for this form of training — OMNIA — that offers infinite possibilities in all kinds of training modalities — strength, endurance, stability, flexibility, coordination and speed — and satisfies the widest range of user needs, abilities, and aspirations.

Yoga is becoming a more attractive form of exercise. You learn to breathe again and to relax. It is so much fun and brings the best out in you. If you like to sweat, hot yoga is recommended and if you need to get along with your emotions stored in the body and to learn to open up, restorative yoga would be just perfect for you.

Personal training

Today more and more people are looking for a workout that will allow them increasingly free and creative range of exercises to improve fitness — a motivating and effective workout that is led by a knowledgeable personal trainer. Try to discover the Kinesis Personal machine from Technogym for Home fitness or Kinesis One in spas or your nearest gym.

Exercise and weight loss

The combination of exercise and weight loss is a trend towards incorporating weight-loss programmes that emphasise caloric restriction with a sensible exercise programme. Look for a programme that emphasises the important balance between healthy eating and exercise. Healthy eating has a new name: clean eating. What’s clean eating all about? It means eating more vegetables, less meat, less sodium, excluding processed foods and choosing whole grains.