I have been immersed in the fitness world for years. I have learned about bodybuilding, training, fitness, and health, from different reputable sources and also experimented with my body through thousands of hours in the gym – literally thousands of hours.
From learning from the best athletes and coaches in the world and applying their techniques in the gym, reading hundreds of publications about health and nutrition, to listening to hundreds and hundreds of hours of lectures and interviews on these topics.
After more than half a decade of learning, these are my 7 simplest tips for a true fitness life. I don’t have a favorite tip because they are all essential, so #7 could be the top one to go from there.
Get Enough Rest
You need good recovery time from one workout to the next; you also need to sleep at least 7 hours a day. If you don’t get enough sleep and you have the opportunity, naps are the best. Additionally, recovery should include not just time between workouts, but actively using tools like massage and relaxation so your body and nervous system are always ready.
Eat Healthy And Eat Plenty
This means: eating good sources of protein, unprocessed carbohydrates, and good fat (avocado, olive oil, etc.). People confuse fitness and healthy eating with eating little; it’s a mistake. Eat until you are satisfied without exaggeration.
On the other hand, get your body used to intermittent fasting; that is, from time to time he only drinks water in the morning and eats for the first time at lunchtime. Intermittent fasting has multiple benefits; one of them is that it will get you used to have adequate energy levels without the need to constantly eat.
Train With Weights Or Some Type Of Resistance
Training with weights is essential to have a good combination of muscle mass and strength. It doesn’t necessarily have to be strength training at the gym; Find the discipline you like. However, it has to be a workout where you use some type of resistance to encourage your body to get stronger and gain muscle.
On the subject of cardio: being active and walking regularly is enough. You don’t need to spend hours and hours jogging. The health benefit cost of doing that is not exactly the best. My recommendation is to strength train at the gym and saves cardio for fun activities outside of the gym.
Drink Plenty Of Water
Staying hydrated has countless positive effects. This refers to drinking plain water, not soft drinks or juices. If you like fruits, it is much better to eat them whole instead of making juices that usually become sugar (glucose) bombs for the body.
Very often small health problems, such as headaches, can be solved by staying hydrated.
Everyone is different so it’s hard to recommend a daily intake amount, so just drink when you’re thirsty. Also, drinking water regularly prevents you from overeating.
Do Not Eat Processed Sugar
This is too important. No more sweetening drinks, coffee or tea, with sugar. Use a natural sweetener like stevia. On the other hand, for those of us who have a sweet tooth and love desserts, at least they should not be eaten alone but with a stomach full of healthy food. This prevents them from becoming extreme sugar (glucose) bombs for the body.
Processed sugar is one of the biggest poisons eaten regularly. It is directly related to a lot of diseases and has negative effects (cancer, osteoporosis, etc.). It would be best to cut it out of your nutrition plan entirely, but if you can’t do that at least significantly cut back on the number of processed desserts and sweets you eat.
About how dangerous sugar is for health, you can read the following article: Health: the poison of sugar and zero-calorie products
Lead A Healthy Life For The Mind
People sometimes forget about this because it separates the intellectual side from the physical. It’s a mistake. Reading good books, watching quality movies, having healthy habits, consuming good images, having good conversations, and in general leading an intellectual life, have extremely positive implications for the health of the body.
We usually perceive body and mind as two separate things. It is something like the feeling that our body is a vehicle and that we live inside it, but this idea is not correct. Body and mind are one.
Become Aware And Decide To Put Your Health As A Priority
The good thing about being aware of this is that by having the clear and explicit goal of being healthy, you tend to make fewer mistakes.
If being healthy is always a priority, in general, you are going to eat better, you are going to rest more, you are going to consume quality content on the Internet, you are going to surround yourself with people who have good habits and your quality of life improves exponentially in many aspects.
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