5 Reasons You Should Not Stop Working Out

                                                          

Consistency is the key

   We’ve all been through it. You work out regularly for months or even years, then one day, you have an incident. You’re injured, and thus unable to continue your workout for a few days. After a while, your injury heals but you, for one reason or another are unable to continue your routine and you stop working out or you just keep pushing your resumption forward.

  As Fitness Experts put it, you’ve been deconditioned. According to some research, deconditioning occurs to between 25 to 35 percent of adult exercisers within the first two to five months of starting routine exercise.

Deconditioning has a number of effects on your bodily systems and these include :

1. You lose flexibility
When you stop exercising, you gradually lose the body flexibility as your muscles and tendons gradually retract to their normal resting length. Flexibility loss can occur as early as within three days of stopping your exercise routine.

2. It takes longer to get back on track
Experts believe that you require at least 3 weeks to regain a week of exercising lost. This occurs as a result of loss of neural stimuli that allowed you lift objects with ease. Consequently, to get back to where your strength levels were would require greater effort.

3. You Lose Your Strength
When your muscles do not receive its daily challenge, it begins to lose proteins. This loss can begin to occur as early as 72 hours after exercising is discontinued. Changes can be noticed when you attempt to lift your usual amount of weight in 2-3 weeks.

4. Aging affects loss of fitness
The older you get, the more fitness you lose. This occurs largely due to hormones. As you get older, you lose your ability to handle stress and recover from the resultant stress hormones like cortisol. This also results in increased fatigue after workouts.

5. You lose cardiovascular fitness.
The longer you used to work out for, the less cardiovascular fitness you lose. If you’ve only been working out for a year, you lose fitness faster than someone who’d been working out longer.


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