It is all good for you to be able to sustain long sessions of cardio workouts in the gym or weight training with various weights. But if your body adapts to the exercise that you practice every time you work out, then you might stop losing weight after some time. This is mainly because once the body gets used to a certain type of movement, no matter how fast or slow, or how easy or difficult it might be, it starts burning less fat or calorie to perform it after that. Therefore, you lose out on the basic point of your workout: lose weight.
All these issues have only one solution to them: interval training. Interval training is the best way to pep things up in your workout schedule. Not only should you practice different sorts of cardio workouts and do a greater number of reps of your weight training, but you should also change the order or the time span of
each of these exercises. This will do both jobs: keep you interested in the regime, and also prevent your body from getting used to the movements.
If you are used to jogging every morning for 5 miles, change it a little and run fast for two miles, walk for the next two miles, and then jog for the last one mile. Or you can divide the distance into two days. Run for two miles, following it up with a walk for the next one mile on the first day. On the second day, walk for two miles and finish it up with one mile of jogging. In effect you will be covering a greater distance (6 instead of 5 miles) and you will not be bored of just jogging the entire distance.
Doing 5 reps of the same weight training may take up double the time than what it would have taken for you to complete the session in two reps, but your muscles will burn a lot more fat if you practice the former method instead of the latter.
If you like sports, then you should do a combination of swimming, jogging or playing tennis, instead of sticking to only one of these things. Also don‟t compartmentalize cardio workouts and weight training. You should combine both in proportion every time you work out. Whatever you so should keep you interested enough o not make it feel like a burden to work out.Don‟t start with extreme time spans with your workout. Begin with 20 minutes of cardio followed by 15 minutes of weight training with adequate number of reps for
each type. Increase the minutes and the intensity very gradually every fortnight so that you body has enough time to adapt to the movements, and at the same time does not get used to them.
