Working out every day can support weight loss and overall health, as long as you avoid common mistakes and vary the intensity and duration of your workouts.
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If you’ve long been quickly trying to squeeze in as many reps as humanly possible before your muscles fatigue during a strength workout, you might want to literally slow your roll. There’s a new (-ish) strength-training practice to get familiar with that has nothing to do with speed, and everything to do with slow, controlled movements. Learn this phrase: time under tension (TUT).
Trainers everywhere agree the TUT technique is one of the most effective ways of increasing
hypertrophy, the term for increasing strength and muscle.
“TUT is a type of exercise technique that aids in stimulating muscle fibers,” says Jessica Mazzucco, a New York City-area certified fitness trainer. “Instead of focusing on the number of reps of an exercise, TUT training aims to make athletes slow down and perform an exercise with less momentum.”
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People with mesomorph body types tend to see big gains from strength and interval-type workouts. But longer cardio training is important, too.
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How do you know if you have a mesomorphbody type? You might love Tabata and other high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts, but find long bouts of cardio arduous. You may naturally enjoy the weight room because that’s where your strengths no pun intended lie.
“A mesomorph is generally defined as someone who has a body type that has a high level of muscle and strength,” says Adam Feit, the head strength and sports psychology coach for Precision Nutrition in Springfield, Massachusetts. Now, perhaps you don’t have lots of muscle at the moment because you’ve been inactive for a while. But you know if you did start working out, you would gain muscle relatively easily.