Find your Motive

AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TIP ALL INDIVIDUALS MUST REMEMBER WHEN LOOKING TO EXERCISE IS "DO NOT OVERDO IT". Yes, it is strongly important to include exercise in our lifestyle, however, overdoing-it will generate a bad affect on your body and muscles.

1. Give your muscles time to recover

When we exercise, especially strength training, small tears called micro-tears occur in the muscle fiber. As these repair themselves, the muscle becomes stronger and bigger. However, if you don’t give the muscle rest, it won’t have time to recover. Most experts agree that one day of rest per week is needed to rest and repair muscles.

2. Prevent a stall in your weight-loss efforts

By exercising, people think that is the best way to burn more calories than they eat and as a result lose weight. But in reality, one can over-exercise and actually hit the infamous plateau. When this happens, the general tendency is to train even more to try and break through it. What is needed is less training.The body has a built-in mechanism where it will stall weight loss if it thinks losing more weight could be detrimental. Rest or at least back-off on your training as the remedy.

3. Prevent burnout

Some people train so hard in an effort to reach their fitness goals that they actually do not look forward to training anymore. Everything in life is about moderation and if training is taking up much more than its fair share of your time, eventually you will start avoiding working out altogether. The remedy?Include at least one day of rest per week as part of your workout schedule. As far as the length of a workout, do what is right for you so that you can still look forward to each workout.