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Tag: fitness
Stretch or Eat Chips
The video attached was made by the Mayo Clinic, which is a nonprofit academic medical center based in Rochester, Minnesota, focused on integrated clinical practice, education, and research. They know a lot about becoming/staying healthy and how to improve health. The video they made talks about the benefits of stretching. A lot of people do not understand the benefits of stretching after a workout and tend to skip it. Not stretching after a workout can lead to strains, tightness, stress on joints, and injuries. Stretching should be a part of someone’s workout routine, it only takes five to ten minutes to complete if done correctly. The video states that the benefits of stretching after a workout includes increasing range of motion, improving performance, and reducing risk of injury. If these benefits are not appealing to you, do not bother stretching or in fact working out. Why bother working out if you are not going to help your body get the best results by stretching. Just stay at home, eat your potato chips, and think about the injuries you are not getting. The other option, if you do not want injuries is to workout, stretch, go home and relax, then think about the injuries you are not getting. It is up to YOU with what you would prefer. The reason why it is good to stretch after a workout is because your muscles are warm and therefor very responsive to stretching. As the video states, stretches should be gentle, slow and held for about thirty seconds. While stretching, there should be no bouncing or intense pain. If there is pain while stretching it can cause damage to the muscle. In the moment you may not think stretching is important, but down the road you will be thankful.
A Cheat Meal Won’t Kill You
This image was taken from the website of cheatdaydesign.com. The quote of “one healthy meal doesn’t make you skinny just like one unhealthy meal doesn’t make you fat” is so important to understand. Some people who are new to diets believe that one unhealthy, or cheat meal, will reverse all of one’s hard work. With a mindset like that, dieting is going to be extremely difficult. A cheat meal will not reverse any progress a person has made nor will it have much affect on the person’s future progress. For example, if someone eats a salad they are not going to be instantly skinny and fit. The same goes for a cheat meal, a person will not be instantly fat just for indulging every so often. Actually cheat meals are very important. Having a cheat meal, especially one that is high in carbohydrates, can help to kick start a person’s metabolism and help to regulate hormones. A cheat meal will encourage your body to keep burning these calories, instead of adjusting to the lower calorie intake (or calorie deficit). Being on a diet is all about keeping your body in check and helping it to learn how to burn the calories you are eating. If someone is in a large calorie deficit, and do not have a cheat meal every so often, once they come off of that diet they will most likely gain a lot of weight back. Diets can be very hard and strict but it is all about understanding the proper ins and outs. Being able to have a cheat meal, maybe once a week, shows how strong a person can be. Being able to go the whole week without indulging, and then only having ONE cheat meal, is very impressive. It is all about self control, motivation, and attitude. If someone has set goals, and determination following a strict diet, calorie deficit, and having a cheat meal once a week will definitely help bring the results.
Is Intermittent Fasting Safe?
For years, many doctors and trainers recommended eating in a calorie deficit if one is trying to lose weight. Along with that, doctors claimed people trying to lose weight should also be eating three meals a day. Or should they? A new way to lose weight involves fasting or rather, intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting involves people eating during certain times of the day. For example if someone is doing a 16/8 fast they eat during an eight hour window and fast for the other sixteen hours. A person might eat from 10:00am to 6:00pm and fast from 6:00pm to 10:00am. Maybe someone prefers to eat a little later in the day and decides to make their eating window from 12:00pm to 8:00pm, that is fine too. Fasting has shown to increase a person’s metabolism and show more rapid weight loss results. If someone wants to burn even more calories at the gym, they will go while they are late into their fast. For those who are interested in a ketogenic diet, fasting will help to get them get into ketosis much faster. I am sure you are thinking, ‘won’t I be hungry skipping meals and only being able to eat for eight hours of the day?’. To answer that, when a person fasts, they are able to drink black coffee, unsweetened tea, and water. These liquids help to make a person feel more full and will keep one’s energy levels at a good place. Not drinking enough fluids can lead to low blood sugar, headaches, and in some cases fainting. Not only can fasting help a person lose weight more quickly, but it can also help to lessen the symptoms of certain diseases or disorders. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and diabetes are two of the biggest diseases/ disorders that cause people to be overweight. In several studies, intermittent fasting has been shown to lessen their symptoms. Intermittent fasting should not only be a remedy for weight loss, but it should be a new way of life. Along with that, intermittent fasting promotes a healthy lifestyle because of weight loss, a faster metabolism, and lowers risks of certain diseases, but, a person who does intermittent fasting can eat whatever type of food they would like with limitations for the unhealthy food. That is right, you can eat whatever you like while intermittent fasting because of what your body does during the time of fasting. Before a person begins fasting they should check with their doctors to see if it is the right solution for them.
A Little Bit About Me
Hello everyone my name is Alyssa Upton and I am making this blogging page to hopefully inspire you. I want to help my readers to become more body positive and accept that losing weight and maintaining a health lifestyle isn’t so easy. I will try to give you tips and exercises to stay fit. For me though, losing weight wasn’t so easy because, at the age of sixteen, I was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), which is something a person has their whole life. PCOS is a hormonal disorder which makes it rather difficult to get pregnant, but for losing weight, most of us are insulin resistant which causes glucose to build up in the blood. Having PCOS means I have to take a special pill that will “help” me lose weight. The thing that would confuse the doctors was that working out and being a year round athlete did not help me lose weight or be as fit as most athletes. Along with that I would eat rather healthy, and most times less than my friends (even those who were very skinny). After going to many doctors, I went to one who put me on a very strict diet. Over the summer of 2018, I took on the challenge, I would go to the gym four to five days a week and eat less than on thousand calories a day. This amount of exercise and lack of eating caused me to get gallstones and I had to get my gallbladder removed immediately. Last summer, in the course of six weeks I was able to lose twenty pounds. Now, I try to eat more than 1,000 calories and not workout as intensely, and thankfully I am getting the same results. Along with that, I am still on my weight loss and healthy lifestyle journey and I am hoping you can come along with!
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