Friday, April 1, 2011

How To Stay Healthy When Getting In Shape

By Katherine Crawford


If you really want to see drastic changes in your body, you have to push harder and harder. But there is a catch because the body can only take so much.

So here is how to prevent sickness from slowing down your fitness progress:

1. Eat complete nutrition from all the food groups: Excluding food groups is a sure fire way to stress your body until it gets sick. Because of the way food groups interact with each other, you can't single them out and expect to stay healthy.

2. Lose weight slowly: Well, you don't have to lose weight slowly per se, just make sure you aren't losing it at lightning speed. You see, once you start losing weight at a super fast rate, your body begins to break down muscle.

3. Stay very clean: Most people are unaware that their bodies are under a constant state of war against germs. This is always happening even if you don't feel sick. And by staying super clean, you give your body a break so that it can have more resources for repair and recovery.

4. Get a flu shot right when they are available: It takes minimal effort, costs very little and can save you weeks of sickness misery. If you have a simple way to prevent a potential bout of sickness, take it.

5. Focus on pre exercise nutrition: Exercising on an empty stomach goes against all the laws of exercise physiology. Not only is this painful, but it will decrease the amount of fat you burn. Have some carbs before training for best results.

6. Have carbohydrates immediately after exercise: You need to do this for two reasons. First, you want to take advantage of your body's ability to suck up extra carbs during the short post workout window. Second, the carbs will bring down exercise-induced stress hormones that reduce your immunity.

7. Do not push it when sickness begins to creep up: You need to rest if you feel like you are getting sick. Do not work through the pain and please understand that a minor cold can turn into a nightmare if you keep on adding exercise stress to the mix.

Don't fall victim to getting sick when you are trying to reach your fitness goals. Sometimes more is not better. So stay healthy and reach your goals faster!




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