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Training Tips - No Pain No Gain?
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Pain, No Gain – The Truth
It's all well and good wanting to get fit or to take up
training. In order to get fit you do have to push
yourself that bit harder on a relatively regular basis.
However, if you push too hard and don't get adequate
rest then you may find you'll not be doing yourself too
much good and could easily end up injured or ill.
Remember rest is a vital component of your training,
helping to make the occasional bout of pain that bit
more tolerable. General fitness can be promoted without
undue discomfort. Exercise can be achieved easily by
walking for an hour.
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If however, you need to increase your training, say
because you have to prepare for a competition, then
your fitness goals will have to be re-assessed.
Training levels will need to be progressed which may
lead to some degree of training discomfort. But this
does not mean having to do gut-wrenching exercise or
training sessions every day, week in, week out. An
intensity and mix of types of sessions are required
for specific fitness levels.
Adopt a
layering approach to workouts to achieve optimum
results. Whatever your exercise or training regime
your body and mind would give in after a while if
you forget to include rest and recovery. |
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Rest is a
vital ingredient in any training programme as are
weights or circuit sessions. Prolonged and/or strenuous
training bouts can lead to burnout, staleness or even
injury. Devaluing the importance of rest and recovery in
the training cycle can lead to feelings of tiredness all
the time. Muscles being constantly sore could be due to
over-training.
Exercising breaks down the structural proteins in
muscles and the connective tissue. Those whose
activities are impact related could suffer with a
greater level of tissue breakdown than those whose
activities have a lesser level of impact activity. Once
training is finished time is needed for the endocrine,
nervous and immune systems to return to normal.
Regardless
of your chosen activity, your body needs proper recovery
time for your muscles, ligaments and tendons to be able
to return to their previous levels and for them to be
able to increase their protein content/energy enzyme
production capability in order to promote greater
strength and endurance. So remember any good exercise or
workout programme must include rest and relaxation as
well as a good diet.
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