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WORKOUT PRINCIPAL
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Workout Factors
1. Personal goals includes shaping, strengthening, available time, present fitness level, previous
injuries, and cardiovascular. By using the ACTIVcycle correctly and on a regular basis, you can achieve
your goals.
2. Available time is one of a major element in determining what we do in our daily lives. If you can only
exercise for 15 minutes, develop a 15 minute program with the ACTIVcycle.
3. Exercising and working out on the ACTIVcycle should be an enjoyable part of your daily life.
4. Focus on the exercises for your muscles work. No matter what your level of fitness, you can
complete each exercise in a short range of time and sense the increase level of strength
and endurance.
5. Always start your exercise slowly to warm up muscles.
6. The ACTIVcycle provides you with bio-mechanically correct exercises. The design of theACTIVcycle
allows you to exercise your muscles with movements that are natural and efficient.
7. Being exercise specific is the common sense approach to exercise or training. For example, a
marathon runner concentrates on long distance endurance training and does not practice starting. A
sprinter, on the other hand, practices starting but does not run 10 miles a day. Practice doesn't make
perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. Tailor your workouts to achieve your goals. Overall fitness
and muscle balance is important for a healthy lifestyle and injury prevention.
The Overload Principal
In order for you to strengthen your body, you must develop a series of exercise workouts each day. When
you work out on a regular basis, your body specifically your muscles, adjust to the new level of work. It's
called increasing local metabolic efficiency. As a result, your muscles work better and you get stronger. If
you keep working at the same level of metabolic efficiency, you can't improve muscle efficiency. So from time
to time you need to increase the frequency and/or duration of the exercise. Thus, in order to improve your
fitness level, you must progressively increase your work load to reach your personal goal.
