5 mistakes when exercising that cause the body to age prematurely

Regular and consistent exercise is essential, but the following 5 common mistakes can cause your body to age visibly faster.

Correct these mistakes now and keep yourself fit and healthy.

Never rest

If you exercise regularly but still feel tired or sore during your workouts, it's a result of your body not having enough time to heal and recover between workouts.

Between the ages of 15 and 25, it takes the body about 18 hours to repair muscle fibers damaged by a workout, but this number increases to 36 hours by the age of 40 and beyond.

Forgetting to warm up when exercising can inadvertently cause the body to age quickly.

If you don't get adequate rest between workouts, your muscles become inflamed, your immune system may not function properly, and you may have trouble sleeping.

Therefore, you need to ensure enough rest time between workouts and allow your body to completely unwind at least one day a week.

Skip the startup

You're doing your body a disservice if you start a dance or weight training session without doing some light exercise to warm up.

When muscles become inflamed, thyroid hormones and cytokines (inflammatory proteins) are released, which affect the immune system and make it harder for the body to recover.

So get into the habit of warming up and warming up your body for 5-10 minutes before starting to exercise at high intensity.

Focus only on high intensity exercise

High intensity exercise requires proper rest.

Wanting to burn as many calories as possible in the shortest amount of time, some people focus on doing high-intensity exercises that continue to burn calories even after you have finished exercising. This is destroying and ruining your body.

High-intensity exercise has been linked to an increase in rhabdomyolysis, a very serious breakdown of muscle fibers that can cause kidney damage and even death. Rhabdomyolysis can affect other parts of the body, especially if you let your body become dehydrated, which can lead to rapid aging.

How to fix: Allow your body at least 48 hours to rest and recover after intense exercise.

Stick with low-impact exercises long term

Cycling and aerobics are low impact activities that do not have much effect on your bone density.

To prevent osteoporosis and maintain bone health, you should add exercises such as jogging, sprinting and jumping rope... to your fitness regimen.

Never exercise your pelvic floor muscles.

You can focus on your obliques (muscles responsible for rotation) and rectus abdominis if you want a small, toned waist. But if you ignore your pelvic floor muscles, by the time you’re 35 or 40 you’ll be faced with a round, sagging belly and urinary incontinence. Your body will also age faster.

Therefore, you should combine Kegel exercises (muscle contraction exercises) to activate the pelvic floor is an important part of strengthening the body from within. Practice 10 times each time and repeat 3 times like that, do 3 times a day.

According to VNN