In any case, it is extremely important to pay attention to details. With the question of building a body, things are exactly the same! Alas, just going to the gym 3 times a week and eating right is not enough, as there are a lot of nuances that can prevent you from reaching your goal, even if you are doing everything right. We already told you about the importance of drinking, rest between workouts and sleep from the point of view of sports progress. Of course, do not forget about the correct technique for performing exercises, a well-designed training program and really clean nutrition. In addition to all of the above factors, stress is, oddly enough, stress.
To be honest, we live in an era when peace of mind is a valuable and rare gift. No one is ever immune from rush jobs at work, problems in the family, just a large number of cases with which we can not always cope with ease. All these things cause stress, which, in turn, has a detrimental effect on the entire work of our body.
First and foremost, stress causes the production of cortisol in the body, which in turn contributes to catabolic reactions in the body. As a result, you are rapidly losing muscle mass, and your strength and endurance rates drop over time, even if you do not give up training. Oddly enough, the state of our nervous system is associated with the gastrointestinal tract. Stress can easily cause an almost complete lack of appetite, or, conversely, lead to wolf hunger. Both options will not end in anything good, both for health and for the figure. And, of course, stress can cause insomnia, which will already affect your sleep patterns.
If you are experiencing psychological stress, then first of all you need to eliminate all problems at the physiological level. Herbal teas will help you sleep better and relax. Replace them with black tea or coffee, which, on the contrary, irritate the nervous system. Even if you have no appetite at all, try to follow the diet to the maximum. Fatty foods or, conversely, hunger damage the nervous system. Take at least 10-15 minutes a day of yoga or stretching. Your muscles will relax, and you can at least briefly disconnect from all the things that put pressure on you and relax. Being able to relax during the day is very important. Also try to pay attention to your back. The clamped area of the cervical and trapezium can negatively affect blood supply. No matter how trite it may sound, but constricted back muscles can increase the level of stress and anxiety during the day. You can also take melatonin, which is also called sleep hormone. This will facilitate falling asleep, despite the stress experienced during the day and help to relax.
Why you can not combine sports and alcohol
Alcohol is a substance harmful to the body and nervous system. However, it is rarely possible to meet a person who does not allow himself to periodically drink a glass of wine and a glass of whiskey. Despite the fact that our school adheres to the principles of a healthy lifestyle, we do not see anything critical in the moderate use of alcohol, for example, on holidays. But in this matter there are a number of hidden dangers for the training person, which must be avoided.
Alcohol has a great effect on the cardiovascular system. If you combine this with a hangover or drinking alcohol, the load will increase several times, which will only aggravate the effects of drinking alcohol on your health and will not give any results in connection with the training. It is not recommended to perform either strength or cardio training. At maximum, you can take a walk. A single drink of alcohol implies that you have not trained at least a day and will not train for another day. Thus, you lose one training day per week, which will certainly affect your results if you take alcoholic beverages with a frequency of, for example, once a week.
But not only the frequency of visits and the decreased efficiency of the cardiovascular system are displayed on your results. Alcohol intake is stressful for the body, which, in this regard, begins the production of the hormone cortisol. Cortisol provokes catabolic reactions in the body. In other words, you begin to lose muscle mass. If your training is aimed at mass gain, then you need to completely eliminate alcohol from your diet until you reach the desired parameters.
Another minus is that metabolic processes in the body come to an imbalance for a while and the regime goes astray. You drank until too late, or woke up too early due to poor health, as a result you get lack of sleep. Lack of sleep (restless sleep with frequent awakenings can also be attributed to it) leads to the development of the same cortisol. A faithful companion for drinking alcohol, dehydration, slows down the metabolism, on the measured work of which every athlete who intends to achieve good shape works. Also, for some time, because of alcohol, any food is absorbed worse, not to mention that after drinking alcohol, you never want to eat fatty or salty foods, and not at all a healthy sports diet.
So, if you want a little drink, it is very important to evaluate all the disadvantages that alcohol will entail, not only for your health, but also for your results.
