Exercise Misconception

Although exercise is a good deed for your health, without the right understanding, your body can be in a great risk. Listed below are the most common misconceptions about exercise.

1. Overdo in Advance
Despite the fact that your body needs some time to adjust to something new, numbers of people tend to overdo by the beginning level of exercise, which usually causes exhaustion and pain. Therefore, remember to slow it down and take it easy at the first place so that your body may get acquainted with the new deeds you are doing, which generally may takes 6 weeks. Besides, being supervised by a specialist could play a very important role since you need to learn how to do right.

2. Over Estimate Your Ability
Many people might over estimate your own performance and that may cause a great risk. For an example, patients with chronic back pain should refrain from all kinds of activities and exercises that may increase disc compression. Consult with a therapist or physician before finding your suitable exercise program, especially when your pain is often recurrent, exercise should be considered after the problem resolved only.

3. Malnutrition
For those who are trying to lose weights by consuming as least as possible and exercising as much as you can at the same time, instead of good deeds, you are actually putting yourself in a danger. While you are working out, your body needs a lot of nutrition to energize and burn calories, which means having a light meal such as an apple or a piece of bread or two before exercising for at least 30 minutes may keep yourself energized until the end the exercise class. Dos :
• Have some Carb or Protein before exercising at least 30 minutes.
• Make sure your nutrition is balanced but always remind yourself not to have too much calories.

4. Why Physical Exam?
Most people do not realize how important it is, even though your body might be in a greatest risk ever. Since some physical issues are not as obvious as they should be, physical examination is an inevitable prevention from all kinds of risk that may occur afterwards. As a result, you can make sure that exercise will grant you a healthy, long living life.

5. Not Concentrate While Exercising
Numbers of people are distracted while working out by other activities that might cause an injury instead of health and wellness, which is one of the most common reasons we give up exercising. Sports equipments also need to be checked up continuously to prevent any possibilities of putting yourself in danger while exercising.

6. Wrong Information
Although exercise is not something new, wrong information on working out seems to be one of the most common problems. Besides the fact that your body should be restored in the right way, the right exercise could prevent you from many harmful possibilities. Whenever you need the right information, consultation with a specialist such as physician, physiotherapist or exercise specialist is highly recommended. For the best result, exercise program should be designed individually to fit one’s needs to improve each unique body as much as it could.

7. Too Weary
Exercise is good for your health only when your body is ready. Once you have a cough, a fever, a cold or other symptom, the best thing you can do is to take a rest or else, your sickness could get worse and other people in the gym could be infected. Next time you feel too weary, give yourself a break for 5-7 days and make sure your sickness is cured before stepping on the treadmill.

Dr. Montanat (Ruj) Rojjanasrirat
Certified Chiropractor and Founder of Chiromed

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