Lose Weight With The Wave – The Firm Wave Workout
A lot of people have asked me whether the Firm Wave is a good piece of exercise equipment for regular exercisers, or is only useful for beginners. These people are experienced exercisers, some of whom are training for particular events and some are just keen exercisers who like to keep themselves in shape and enjoy different types of exercise to stop themselves getting bored or jaded.
I give regular exercisers the same advice as I do novice exercisers; that is that the Wave will give them a workout as intense as they care to make it. What makes this possible is the sheer versatility of this piece of equipment, which can be used either side up and for all sorts of floor-based exercises, exercises with an exercise band or with or without dumbbells so that they continue to challenge every muscle in their body.
I seem to spend my life tried to persuade people to change their exercise programme, just as they seem to have got used to it. We are all creatures of habit and like things we are used to, and exercise workouts are no different but, if we keep doing the same things after our bodies have adapted to them, we will get no further in our fitness goals as our bodies will only expend as much energy as they need to carry out the task we have set for them. That means we will not get any fitter or slimmer or more toned unless we do something different and challenge our bodies in a different way.
The fitness gains and weight loss at the beginning of any new fitness regime are always the most dramatic, as fat is burnt as fuel and muscles get stronger to do what we ask of them. However, like the Borg, our bodies quickly adapt to the stresses placed upon them and the fitness gains become slower and then finally stop and will even reverse if the workout not changed.
The Firm Wave is brilliant for all sorts of different and challenging workouts and its sheer versatility always amazes me. Its uses are only limited by your imagination; any exercise that can be done on a Step, bench or a wobble board can be done simply by using this single piece of equipment. All types of Step exercises can be performed to music with a good beat; make these high impact by jumping and hopping, or use the Wave as a prop to move around and over to intensify your workout. And there’s all that just on one side of the Wave! If you turn it over and rock on it, you add a whole new dimension to the mix, engaging muscles you didn’t know you had.