Top Ten Fitness tips

1. Exercise every day. There is more than enough research that shows the benefits of daily exercise. It does not have to be a full-on workout but do something everyday that utilizes your muscles strength and flexibility, as well as increases your heart rate.
2. Make it make sense. Always figure out why you are doing an exercise. If you don't know ask a professional. Do not just do something for the sake of doing it.
3. Change up your rep/set scheme. The body adapts to stresses fairly quickly. If you keep doing the same sets and reps for weeks on end you will either plateau or overtrain yourself.
4. Train for the long haul. Regardless of the type of training you are doing, it is to increase your performance on some level. To maximze your performance you must have a healthy, well functioning body. So make sure that your training program is not going to work against that by including dangerous exercises or bad technique.
5. Do the benefits outweight the risks. This goes along with the previous tip. Look at all of the exercises that you are doing. Do the benefits of this exercise outweight the risks? If not, get rid of it.
6. EAT WELL. With all of the nutritional information out there, there is no excuse to not supplement your hard training with a well balanced diet.
7. Use different exercise tools. Physio-balls, medicine balls, resistance bands, dumbells, kettlebells, barbells all have benefit an exercise program in their own way. If you have access to any of these tools I suggest learning to use them.
8. Take active rest days but don't take time off. The body needs proper recovery from stress via nutrition, sleep and low stress activity. Doing nothing is not a good way to recovery because it decreases bloodflow and does not allow muscles to work in a full range of motion. Low stress activities like walking or golf are great ways to let the body recover while not letting it shrivel up into a useless, prune-like, shell of a body.
9. Learn. Learn as much as you can about nutrition and exercise so you can decipher fact from fiction.
10. Keep track of your stats. The only way to you will know if a routine is working is if you see results from it. Every month test your body fat, weight, flexibility, and strength. The flexibility and strength test must be constant. For example, pushup and pullup repetition tests are easy because you just try to beat your previous score.