
Should You Return to the Gym Amid the Covid19 Pandemic
July 2, 2020
Getting Back to the Gym?
August 3, 2020Trying to Catch Up? Find A Balance to Avoid Super-Intense Workouts in A Pandemic.
Before covid-19 struck, the adage used to be, ‘Go Hard or Go Home!’ But right now, with the stay-at-home directive in many places or extended restrictions most people are stuck at home and going extremely hard with super-intense workouts just because they have all the time.
It’s medically correct to focus on your mental and physical health during these extreme times. However, experts believe that high-intense workouts can instigate mind and body risks.
How do high-intense exercises affect your health?
It’s okay to add a challenge to your regular exercise routine. It’s part of any successful fitness endeavor. But, in the current state of affairs, it could be an essential move to reduce your exertion levels when exercising, the duration of aerobic endurance exercises, and the weights you lift.
By doing that, you’ll be looking after your emotional and mental health plus your physical well-being. Remember, it would be a huge diss-service if your health were impacted, yet you are at home in the best interest of your health and others.
The coronavirus pandemic has already placed you in a stressed or anxious state. When you prioritize intense workouts, significant caloric burns, and maximum heart rates, you reduce the physical returns on the exercises accomplished. And this can cause potential injury, especially if you are not employing recovery strategies.
What are the appropriate recovery strategies?
According to fitness professionals, psychological and physiological stressors blend. And when stress and workload increases, your biological urge for recovery increases as well. It’s that recovery that enables your body to become adaptable to exercise, grow healthier and more robust.
For one, if you are a regular exerciser and doing long-duration workouts, applying appropriate recovery strategies like foam rolling, hydrating, resting, and walking around the neighborhood would be healthy. Secondly, watch out for your diet by eating balanced foods.
Without the proper recovery, you can land into hormonal imbalance, nutritional problems, and physical fatigue. Much as workouts help your immune system, going too hard with no or little rest might put your body at risk for infection. And this is especially true when you throw the current covid-19 worries and the increased body workload into the mix.
So, here’s how to precisely find a healthy balance:
- Adjust Your Expectations
- Aim at Exercises You Enjoy
- Focus on Processes Rather Results
- Alternate Workout Days
- Be in Control of Your Exercises