To get the maximum benefit from your fitness training you should be following a specific program.

You need to determine what you are trying to achieve with your fitness program and then design a course that will deliver the results you are after.

If you have program to follow you will be able to record your progress and make changes as your level of fitness increases.

This is particularly important if you are doing resistance training, as it is difficult to know what changes to make if you don’t know what your progress has been.

Recording your progress will also spur you on to better performances.

This helps your subconscious mind to drive you on as you realize the benefits of your training.

Record the number of repetitions that you achieve for each exercise and the weight that you use for each exercise and constantly challenge yourself to do better.

Even increasing weights or repetitions in small increments can add up to some substantial improves in your levels of strength and fitness over time.

Without a record of progress many people tend to continue with the same weights, or the same number of repetitions and wonder why they fail to achieve the levels that they hope for.

If you are training to reshape your body it is also a good idea to record your starting point on film. Taking that 1st before shot is the hardest part of getting started, but it is the one that you will be thankful for. When you look back you will see the changes that you have made, we look at ourselves everyday so we do not see the small changes, however over the course of a month you will see the difference.

Take a photo of yourself before you start your fitness program and at intervals along the way, I suggest taking photos every 4 weeks.

By recording this on film you can look back and the progress that you see visually and this will help to encourage and motivate you to continue with your program, there will be times that the scale is not changing and you may be feeling discouraged, however you will be loosing inches, by looking back at where you were you will see the wonderful changes that you are making.

There is nothing better than visual proof of accomplishment as a motivator.