When Sports Takes Negative Effects On Body

For a sportsman or athlete with experience, improve fitness and body shape requires more than just a routine exercise. However, too much exercise can lead to negative conditions that affect the body and mind.

Overtraining or chronic fatigue occurs when the intensity, frequency or duration of excessive exercise. In this condition, exercise can bring negative effects on the body.

Reporting from Sheknows, Saturday (14/08/2010), the following symptoms when people get too much exercise:

    1. chronic fatigue
    2. Increased incidence of injury
    3. Moodiness and irritability
    4. headache
    5. Appetite disturbance
    6. insomnia
    7. Changes in body weight
    8. More vulnerable to disease
    9. anemia
   10. depression
   11. Decreased exercise performance

If you experience two or more of these symptoms are present, then you need to reset your exercise schedule.

How to cope with and treat overtraining?

1. prevention first
Overcome the symptoms and immediately reset your exercise schedule. Reduce the frequency of exercise, for example, two times a week. This will maintain your fitness level and give a chance to recover.

2. Time to rest
The best treatment for overtraining is rest and recovery. Consistently, do at least 7 hours of sleep a night.

3. The quality of 'fuel' for the body
The timing and composition of foods is essential to prevent overtraining and recovery. Eating foods that are composed of proteins and karbohindrat. Eat two hours before exercise, because it is more suitable for energy storage in the first 30 minutes after exercise.

4. Stay hydrated
The body will function best when fully hydrated, drink at least 2 liters of water a day.