What Every Body Knows

What Every Body Knows

“Learn to listen to your body.” Fitness experts, trainers, and athletes speak this piece of sage advice like a mantra from coast to coast. In the beginning of your new way of life, you will sometimes feel sore and sometimes feel fine, with nary a twinge.Sometimes you will be tired after you’ve exercised. Sometimes you will almost feel yourself getting stronger or leaner, and sometimes as if you have been working out to no effect at all. Eventually, after you have been working out for a while, you will intuitively be able to determine what message your body is sending you.
You will learn to differentiate the good pain that signals your increasing fitness from the bad pain that means you’ve overdone it and could even be an injury alert. You’ll discover how to know whether you are tired in a good way because you have pushed your personal envelope or you have worn yourself into dangerous exhaustion, which is a bad kind of tiredness. You will learn what you need to do in terms of warming up and stretching to make your workouts work for you. Perhaps most important, your body will tell you that it is missing something when you skip a workout. As you find yourself developing this sense, you will know that it, too, is one of the important stepping stones on the routeto to fitness.