lungs and your heart becoming more efficient, increasing endurance and the muscle
efficiency increases that you don’t feel tired. You feel ready to go up at any time
because the energy available is instantly stored up in the muscle and in the liver in large
quantities. Furthermore, long distance running burns fat more efficiently. Exercise causes
you to become a more optimistic, enthusiastic and creative person. You will find that if
you exercise regularly that you do not tire out because you increase that capacity to
store energy.
Caffeine causes tremendous energy to be released in the form of fat. It is true should we
use this before long endurance exercises, it will cause us some problems due to being a
diuretic and causes us to lose water. Water is the most important thing when you
exercise. It’s essential for proper circulation, for urine production and temperature
control. If you lose as much as 3% of your body weight in water, it begins to interfere
with the efficiency, in whatever sport you are involved in or whatever labour you are
involved in. Lose 10% of your body weight by water and you will go into a heat stroke!
Gout sufferers should always be well hydrated due to the risk of getting a flare-up if you
are dehydrated for a long period of time.
So what do you then? If you are going to exercise or play a sport, drink 24 ounces of
water 2 hours before and then about 14 ounces just a few minutes before you exercise
or compete. Then try and drink 7 ounces every 15 minutes while exercising or
competing. What about drinking Gatorade to replace the potassium you lose while
exercising? Not needed, eating one banana after exercising provides you with 7 times
more potassium than 10 ounces of Gatorade or any other advertised products out there.
Any fruit you eat after exercise will help replenish your carbohydrates, potassium and
other minerals you lost while exercising. Water is the most important thing to take a lot
of while exercising or playing a sport.
Finally, exercise will also banish fatigue, assure you of energy and will lower your risk of
developing a degenerative disease. It’s never going to occur one day whereby you will
have a magic pill, powder, liquid, capsule to take and eat all the fat you like and not
expect to get a disease. And it doesn’t really matter what type of exercise you do, as
long as you do some type of activity that raises your heart rate, it can be walking,
jogging, running, aerobics, tennis, basketball, hockey, swimming, dancing, boxing,
martial arts, weight-lifting, even working around the house and doing the little things