Fitness expert reveals simple rule to get in shape without dreading the gym: 'Just move'

Summer is close astir the country — and for some, that whitethorn travel with a renewed propulsion to get to the gym.

While fittingness routines enactment otherwise for everyone, 1 adept offers elemental proposal for looking and feeling your best: Just move.

Kenny Santucci, fittingness trainer, gym proprietor and big of the "Strong New York" podcast, met with Fox News Digital for an interview, during which helium shared proposal connected achieving fittingness goals without dreading workouts.

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Santucci admitted that helium dislikes definite types of exercises, similar backmost squatting, and volition opt for alternatives instead.

"I hatred backmost squatting. I don't similar doing it," helium said. "But I squat each clip I spell to the gym, oregon each clip I person a limb time … I'll spell usage a pendulum squat. I'll usage a limb press. I volition bash lunges. It doesn't matter."

The adept encourages question arsenic the modular for achieving fittingness goals. (iStock)

"Do I judge successful [fitness] programming? Yes. For the mean idiosyncratic who lives a mean life, bash you person to adhere to a strict program? [No]."

When an workout feels similar a chore, Santucci said that could marque it harder to enactment accordant with workouts.

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"If you're reasoning successful your head, ‘Oh, God, I’ve got to spell bash legs, I don't privation to…’ Go bash thing else," helium suggested. "Swing a kettlebell, propulsion a sled, bash something. Just move. I’d alternatively promote radical to determination than thing else."

"I privation radical to look guardant to it," Santucci added. "You should ne'er question, ‘Should I spell oregon should I not?’ You should go, and past what you bash erstwhile you get determination – sky's the limit."

For the mean gym-goer, Santucci recommends uncovering exercises that are enjoyable.

While Santucci emphasizes wide movement, helium noted that not each forms of workout volition present the desired muscle-building results.

For a amended outcome, helium often encourages gym-goers to adhd much spot grooming to their routines and to assistance "a small spot heavier."

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"Strength grooming should beryllium the ground of what you do, not cycling," helium said, arsenic an example. "I don't person thing against cycling … but if you're telling maine that that's the ground of your training, and your extremity is aesthetics, past you are not truly helping yourself get to that constituent immoderate easier."

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Santucci recommends moving astatine astir 60% to 80% of capacity, pushing to a constituent of fatigue with mean intensity.

"And if you're not doing those things, past you're astir apt not going to get retired what you deliberation you're going to," helium said.

While sticking to a cardio workout similar cycling whitethorn beryllium fun, Santucci suggests adding spot grooming to maximize results. (iStock)

"There's a subject down musculus growth, and if there's nary outer unit pushing against the musculus tissue, and you're not fueling yourself with protein, past you're astir apt not going to physique muscle."

Despite this, Santucci inactive encourages "everyone to bash everything."

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"Hard doesn't needfully mean it's a amended workout," helium said. "If you're grooming astatine levels of intensity, past you're reproducing bully outcomes."

"I don't privation it to beryllium hard for the involvement of it being hard," helium went on. "I privation to advancement astatine something. I privation to get amended astatine something. So, knowing your extremity and moving backwards from determination volition assistance you ... plan a amended programme for yourself."