Before you begin your fitness journey, you need to be sure that it is safe. For example, you may have problems with your joints or a pre-existing condition preventing you from working out. If you are unsure, it is best to consult professionals and double-check to be on the safe side.
Let’s take a look at some professionals who will assist and enhance your personal health and fitness journey.
Doctor
Before you take part in any physical exercise or adjust your diet, it is best to visit your general practitioner to chat about anything that could prevent your journey from being a success. Then, they will do various tests. Tests can include blood tests to ensure you don’t have any underlying issues. If one does, it can be aggravated by exercising or exercising more than usual.
You may have problems with your knees which could prevent you from doing intensive workouts. That’s okay, there are always alternatives to vigorous exercise, swimming for example. Swimming is gentle enough on your joints, and you don’t really notice you are getting a workout while you are swimming. 30 minutes of swimming can burn up to 300 calories.
Nutritionist
A nutritionist can help you when you are struggling to manage your diet yourself and adopt a healthy lifestyle. Most people will only visit a nutritionist when diagnosed with a medical condition such as diabetes. Don’t wait until you potentially have something wrong; you can and will benefit from visiting a nutritionist whenever you feel your diet and healthy eating habits falling off the rails.
You know the basics of a, but putting them into practice can sometimes be harder than it seems. First, a nutritionist will talk to you and look at your stats and decide on the best course of action for you. Then, they will create an eating plan for you to follow with foods that you actually like but that are good for you. It can be exciting to see what food plan they think of.
Personal Trainer
A personal trainer will give you a fitness plan and the motivation you need to carry out the workouts, whether the workouts will be at the gym or in the comfort of your own home. Your fitness plan will involve various exercises and how many sets you need to do of each. For example, you could have 3 sets of 30 sit-ups or ab crunches and 3 sets of 20 squats.
Your fitness plan will be personal and created based on your body shape and what areas you wish to work on. You will chat with a personal fitness trainer who will ask you what your fitness goals are; this could be to lose weight or to tone up; everyone has different goals and aims when it comes to using PTs.
We hope this helps you on your health and wellbeing journey. In addition, it should give you an idea of which professionals to visit beforehand.