Do you want to become a more active person?
When you decide to start having a more active life, introducing physical exercise into your life it is important to start by creating a specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and temporal goal.
One of the biggest mistakes that happens and then discourages us, is to create big goals at the beginning of this practice.
The goals should be realistic for your current form and the time you spend to train.
As a personal trainer, one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to create "easily" achievable goals. For example, the 20/30 min walk.
If you have never been able to endure a walk followed by 30 minutes, what you can do is do a weekly plan.
Example: This first week I will walk 10min., If it is attainable that week, it goes to 20min in the second week, and from now on.
Like everything, to work it takes time and patience :)
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What are the main goals of physical exercise in a pregnant woman?
When I do a personal training job with a pregnant student, I take into account certain aspects:
➡️Mainly maternal and fetal responses to certain movements and exercises. The student's feedback must always be present!
➡️Gestation is not a time to start an intense exercise program, the goal is to maintain fitness and preparation for childbirth and postpartum.
➡️The pregnancy itself is already a training period, so one should not abuse the type of exercise and its intensity.
➡️Work with a postural correction, as weight gain causes lumbar lordosis and kyphosis.
Is exercise in pregnant women safe?
The answer to this question will depend a lot on how long you have been exercising before pregnancy.
➡️If you already exercise, there is no reason to stop, except for any contraindicated activity.
However, you should always make sure that your state of health is acceptable and that it does not pose any risk to your and your baby's health. For greater safety, the personal trainer prescribes and adapts the exercise to you and your needs.
➡️The biggest problem occurs when there is no physical exercise and is solved during the pregnancy period.
There the risk factors increase, not because of being pregnant, but because they start an unusual physical activity and to which they are not able. Therefore, nothing better than seeking the help of an exercise professional 😉
What kind of training do you usually do?
The variety will bring challenges to your body, which will result in a balanced and better evolution!
Why should you drink water during training? 🧐
In a very short way, drinking water during training is paramount. This is because fluid intake should compensate or replace the amount of fluids that come out of our sweating. 💧
When drinking water during training, this intake should be made frequently and not with a large volume. Start hydration before training, during training on a regular basis and after training for a better recovery of your body.
There are people who do not feel well when drinking water during training, start to feel unwell because they are not used to it.
In these cases, they drink at the end of training. Like training, this situation must be adapted to the person, because we are all different :)
The quarantine brought an inevitable increase in teleworking and, with so many hours spent on the computer, it is easy to lose the correct posture of our body.
With this, I decided to create an article with some advice for the day to day and exercises that you should do every two hours of work.
Read the full article (just click on the image) and take care of your posture.
I decided to write this article about this chronic disorder, in an attempt to explain what Fibromyalgia is and why it is increasingly present in the Portuguese population.
Describing some symptoms that can be felt and how they can be treated.
It is important to note that this article is informative, if you suspect or have any of these symptoms for more than 3 months, consult your doctor.
To read the article, just click on the image.
Pedro Martins - Personal Trainer - Funcional and Postural training
With a quarantine phase, a challenge of functional training and medium intensity posture was carried out.
This video aimed to promote physical exercise at home.
Collaboration with the blog "4MEN" on how to do the supine exercise, in the most correct way and with less injuries.
One of my priorities as a personal trainer in Porto is to have my students learn how to do the exercises correctly apart from adding load and more load.
Adapting the exercise correctly to the needs of each one is one of the focal points in the training.
In this article, you can see what care you should take while performing this exercise.
Blog article "Peachy".
This article is quite interesting for those who are always starting and giving up doing physical exercise.
With the experience that I am gaining as a teacher of bodybuilding / group classes and personal trainer, I see that there are still enough 'dropouts' in the continuity of a healthy exercise practice.
In the article, I tried to pass certain points that can help you overcome this addictive cycle of starting and not going to the end.
I hope it helps!!!
Another collaboration with the "4MEN blog".
This time talking about the theme of the work of the gastrocnemius.
I hear more and more people complaining about not being able to develop, or complaining that they have huge gastrocnemius and have never done specific work for them.
There are several factors that can justify the two results, such as muscle fiber type and genetics. That is what I have tried to explain in this article.
Blog article "Peachy".
I was challenged to create an article that exemplifies exercises that people can do outdoors with a simple rubber band.
As a personal trainer, I tried to create a variety of exercises that were simple and without many technical positions, so that anyone could accomplish without being injured.
It was a funny challenge and it gave me great pleasure to do so. Demonstrating with GIF's the accomplishment of the exercise.
If you want to start training or looking for new workouts, this article can help!
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