If you’re exercising for weight loss, the most important factor isn’t the exercises you perform, or the duration of your workouts, or even the intensity of your workouts.

These all do have a bearing on how many calories you burn during your workouts, but the single most important contributing factor to your weight loss success is the consistency of your workouts.

We’ve all heard that the secret to achieving sustainable weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight is lifestyle. And what exactly is lifestyle?

Lifestyle is a term used to describe what we do most commonly on day to day basis. That is, what we eat most regularly and how regularly we’re active. In other words, what we eat and do consistently.

To help you exercise more regularly, here are our top tips:

1. When you begin exercising, start off very slowly and build your workout intensity, duration and frequency gradually over weeks and months. The worst thing you can do is overdo it initially by exercising too hard, too long, or too often.
   
   
2. Try to exercise at the same time of the day for each workout. This will help you get into the habit of exercising and help you manage your other life commitments around your exercise program.
   
   
3. Mix up your workouts. This will help prevent boredom and will encourage total fitness and maximum health and weight loss benefits. Be sure to include both cardiovascular exercises (walking, jogging, cycling, etc) with muscle strengthening and stretching exercises (weight lifting, Yoga, Pilates, body weight exercises, etc).
   
   
4. Find yourself a workout buddy or two. This will also help prevent boredom and will encourage you to exercise when you don’t feel like it. Work colleagues, friends and family make the best workout buddies, but if you’re struggling to find someone with a common goal and interest in exercising regularly, there are plenty of online walking group forums and exercise forums where you can search for someone friendly to exercise with.
   
   
5. Find exercises that you enjoy and do these the most. For example, if you like walking the best, make walking the exercise you do most and supplement your walking with some other exercise (like cycling or Pilates) on occasion.
   
   
6. Treat yourself to some exercise gadgets or new exercise outfits now and then. Great examples are heart rate monitors, new bicycles, exercise DVD’s, or even just a new pair of runners. It’s amazing how things like these can motivate you to exercise, even if it’s just while you work your way out of a slump.
   
   
7. Match your workouts to the seasons. For example, if it’s the middle of winter and it’s freezing cold outside, it’s not a good time to begin jogging outdoors. It might be a better idea to sign up for some Yoga or Pilates classes until the weather warms up a bit. Then you can start jogging.
   
   
8. Consider getting professional help to get you started or keep you going. A personal trainer can help you plan your workouts and show you how to perform a large variety of exercises to keep your workouts safe, interesting and effective.
   
   

If you’re exercising for weight loss, the most important factor isn’t the exercises you perform, or the duration of your workouts, or even the intensity of your workouts.

These all do have a bearing on how many calories you burn during your workouts, but the single most important contributing factor to your weight loss success is the consistency of your workouts.

We hope you’re now convinced of this fact and have enjoyed our tips to help you exercise more regularly and achieve your weight loss goals.

Good luck with your weight loss and thanks for visiting weightloss.com.au.

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