If you have taken a break from your fitness program it's challenging to get motivated to start back into your training routine once more. What you need to do is make some realistic attainable "written"goals to help push you along.

The reason I have emphasized "written" is simply because if you don't write your resolutions down your goals are merely dreams. Studies have proven over and over that writing your goals down on paper is very powerful.

Let's take a look at some sample scenarios. If you want to get back into running, walk in the beginning. Depending on your degree of exercise you could only start with fifteen or twenty minutes. If you have some level of fitness start with a half hour and slowly but surely increase it.

Once you have been walking briskly for a couple of weeks ease back into running by alternating walking and running. Walk for just ten minutes and run for five and so forth. As you increase your level of fitness and your pain lessens increase the running until you get back to running for thirty to forty five minutes at a time.

If you have experience with weight training in the past and have taken a break of more than a few months you really need to take it slow coming back.

When training with weights, if you push too fast too soon you can end up hurting your muscle's supporting tendons and ligaments. The main thing is to not to dash in trying to use the same weights you were using and do less sets.

What I do following a long break is to head to the health club and exercise on the motionless bike for 15-2o minutes in the beginning to warm my body up. After that, I will choose only a single paticular body part every day to work out. If you are an older person or have a large frame you may want to continue this kind of program even after your initial break-in period.

Let us look at working out the chest for example. If I were bench pressing 300 pounds prior to my layoff I will begin my first training session with 135 pounds and do 3 or 4 sets of high reps in the 15-20 range. Adjust your weights accordingly. Next I may do 3 sets of flat dumbbell flyes once more with higher reps so as not to place too much strain on my tendons and ligaments.

Keep to these same strategies for all body parts and you should increase the weights and reps gradually and within a month you will be right back to hard training once more and working towards your goals - reducing your body fat and learning how to get a six pack.

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