Thursday, February 4, 2010

How to Avoid Injury When Exercising for Weight Loss

The enthusiasm with which certain dieters go for exercise in order to lose weight can lead them into serious injury. This blog entry is an attempt to discuss some of the main ways in which you can protect yourself from this fate by just exercising the best judgment and following some rather simple steps to protect your body. Exercise is good but should not be done in such a way as to endanger your long-term health or to cause you unlimited health problems.

1. Try to go for the gradual method. It tends to work better and prevents the development of disorders and serious injuries. Anything that is done gradually has fewer traumas on the body than drastic changes.

2. Seek immediate medical treatment if you realize that something is wrong as you exercise. Keeping things for a later date could cause you untold problems down the line.

3. Don not attempt to outdo those who have massive experience in exercise. The weight loss program is not a competition but a personal journey based on patience and persistence. Keep this principle in mind for whatever you are doing, including the exercising for the loss of weight.

4. Whenever you feel tired or injured then you should consider stopping the exercise. It might appear to be a good idea to carry on but the ramifications of damage to your body can be so great that you are forced to deal with even greater problems than your weight.

5. Recognize that the road to recovery will be slow. So if you are coming back to the exercise routine after a long illness, you should take things easy and try to ease yourself back to your old routine.

6. Above all remember that exercise is but one method of losing weight. It is not the be all and end all your weight loss programs and you should not behave as if it is. Just take it as one of the many alternatives that are available to you.

7. You might want to have some sort of mind map of your body so that you can work out which areas need less exercise because they are hurt. This means that you are distributing your efforts more evenly and ensures that you do not get into the habit of just overworking one area. After repeated overwork, the benefits from exercise tend to reduce.

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