Whether you’re just starting out with a fitness routine or you are an experienced athlete, you can always benefit from increasing your knowledge about fitness. Being mindful and educated about bodily function and optimal methods of obtaining better fitness can mean the difference between health and failure. If you follow this advice you will be able to tell the difference.

Maintaining a healthy fitness routine requires that you eliminate any reason to not exercise. Start small and only devote 15 minutes a day to exercising if that is all that you think you have time for. Once you start this, you can build from it and completely extinguish the “no time” excuse. If your excuse is that you are too out of shape, then start slowly by walking or even just doing basic stretches.

One way to maximize your fitness routine is to keep track of your workouts and how …