Preventing Harm in Exercise
When you are exercising, there are chemical substances released by your brain called endorphins. These substances give you a good feeling in your exercise that could easily be addictive. When you are exercising and don’t feel the euphoria, you could continue exercising despite the fact that your body can no longer sustain it. This mainly happens since when people get addicted to endorphins, they will show symptoms like anxiety and depression when they don’t get them. As a result, they may push themselves to exercise even beyond their capacity. This will lead to problems related to over exercise.
In essence, doing so will harm you. You could break down your muscles or have heart problems. This problem of over exercising often happens to people who are new to exercise. Since they still don’t have the habit of exercise, they may overestimate their capabilities to exercise. Unconsciously, doing so will only give them the problems related to over exercise.
One of the first indications of over exercise is exhaustion. Since your body is not accustomed to the intensity of the exercise, you will easily get exhausted when you push yourself over the limit. It could cause problems not only on your muscles but also your bones. In fact, over exercise could cause permanent damange in your body.
Even simple exercise like walking could give you adverse effect on your body. It’s because when you’re walking you are against the force of gravity. Even if it’s relatively small, it could still affect you negatively if you don’t do it in the right way.
The key with exercise is moderation. Don’t push yourself too hard, but don’t do too easy things either. You should find the balance where you can get the most benefit from your exercise without excessing your body’s capacity.
To reduce the risk of permanent damage, you should do more than just one type of workout. By combining different kinds of workout, you balance the pressure on your muscles. This will prevent just some of your muscles from receiving excessive pressure that could eventually cause damage.
One rule of thumb to help you is you should not exercise until you become exhausted. To the contrary, you should be fresh and energetic after you exercise. At most, you should exercise no more than one hour a day and no more than five days a week. Don’t forget to take breaks within your week so that your muscles will have enough time to recover.