How To Boost Your Energy Level When Working Out

A good understanding of how a human being metabolizes energy can help one to regulate good energy levels for working out.

Here are some tips on energy boosting

Diet

Eating sufficiently guarantees good levels of energy. Little food means that the metabolized energy sent to the cells is little. A feeling of tiredness will limit working. Tiredness is a method used by the body to preserve food.

In addition to eating enough, one should eat good food. Energy giving food for bodybuilders is devoid of saturated fat and excess sodium. Take food full of protein and complex carbohydrates such as oats and pasta. Fat from fish, nuts and olive oil is recommended.

Skipping meals eventually leads to overeating. This has effects of indigestion which delays synthesis of energy giving glucose to the blood.

Supplements

These should always come second to eating good and sufficient amount of food.

Supplements are meant to offer an extra boost of energy. There are numerous types of supplements, each for a different purpose. The way out is to check the ingredients. Get what will give the best results.

Common energy boosting supplements include:

A. Caffeine

It is found in coffee, tea, soda and also in pill form. It is widely used, virtually by everyone. It is also cheap and the most effective.

Caffeine is used to stimulate the central nervous system to make the body more active. It does this by acting as catalyst to the adrenal gland making them produce large quantities of adrenaline. Presence of adrenaline in the blood makes the heart beat faster. The body energy level is thus boosted.

A dosage of 100 to 300 mg before working out is recommended.

B. Creatine

It is less effective compared to the caffeine. It works as to enrich ATP.

ATP is defined as the electric circuitry in the cells that provides energy. This makes the body stronger and more active for short term periods. This will enable one to add an extra set of exercise to facilitate more muscle formation.

C. Green tea

In addition to caffeine, green tea has various vitamins and minerals. After the body has absorbed the caffeine in this tea, the vitamins will help to fully synthesis the caffeine.

Taking green tea with other multi-vitamins will bring out an even better energy boost.

Short Sleep

At times energy is low because the body is tired. A little sleep instead of food or supplement may be enough to rejuvenate the body and its organs. A 15-30 minute nap may be enough. However one must not overdo the nap as this may alter one’s sleep cycle leading to tiredness the following day.

Also one may just rest under a tree or listen to soft music.

Cardio sessions

After waking up, one can do a few laps or even skip. This will increase your metabolic rate resulting to more energy. Taking small meals after this session boosts metabolism even more and keep one going for longer hours.

Yoga

The mind may also be tired and stressed out. A tired mind simply drains away energy and motivation needed for working out. A 30 to 40 minute yoga session ill help relax a stressed out mind. Stretching also has relaxing effects.

About the Author: Dane Fletcher is the world's most prolific bodybuilding and fitness expert and is currently the executive editor for BodybuildingToday.com. If you are looking for more bodybuilding tips or information on weight training, or supplementation, please visit www.BodybuildingToday.com, the bodybuilding and fitness authority site with hundreds of articles available FREE to help you meet your goals.

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The Benefits of Participating in Competitive Sports

Most of today’s post-college generations are no longer engaged in competitive sports, including women. Even if competitive sports were a part of our childhood to college years, chances are we get too preoccupied with other things to find time to participate in sports competitions. We have fond recollections of playing and we would have a blast if we participated in a friendly game with our friends, co-workers or neighbors, but we don’t. Sad to say, but you are losing a lot of good things and opportunities if you don’t. Let me give you some reasons why you should:

Competitive sports get us moving. Our speed may have dropped off through the years. In fact, most of us are sure to have been slowed down a bit by age. Fortunately, the same applies to most of our friends and family as well. On top of that, our friends and family could all benefit by getting outside and playing a nice rousing game of the sport of our choosing. We’ll all breath deeper, laugh harder, and, in the end, rest better after a bit of friendly competition.

Competitive sports also help us to stay in touch. With our hectic schedules, we often get so wrapped up in the necessities and mundane tasks of daily life that we forget to socialize. Humans are social creatures and we are healthier when we get a chance to interact meaningfully with friends, family or friendly co-workers.

Competitive sports could get us stay in tip-top shape. The physical, emotional, social and mental requirements to stay competitive and strong would surely keep those lagging if not aging muscles and desires from continuing so. The thrill, the excitement, the friendliness, the glorious memories could hold our youth to a standstill. We wouldn’t want our friendly competitors to trounce us so easily, so we would be forced to prepare through exercise and strategic planning. Our preparations and the actual games will surely strengthen us physically and spiritually.

But, with the way things are going on with our jobs and responsibilities, actually getting out and playing can be a big challenge. We have to settle schedule conflicts for ourselves and our potential team mates and we always have so many other things on our endless "to do" lists. Getting set up with a local league in the sport of your choice may help you get out and play. Sometimes we need to make a commitment to ourselves and others in order to ensure that we will follow through with our plans to play.

Many towns, cities, and local communities offer competitive sports leagues through their parks systems. These offer locations for practices and games and game schedules. Though some just offer the basics like baseball, basketball and football, some also have soccer, volleyball, or even tennis. Leagues vary from competitive to casual and teams can even be set up as a family, friend or work group who wants to play together.

If you are more interested in a casual game-setting, then getting a smaller group together regularly for a game of three on three basketball using the basketball hoops in your driveway or at the park. Or maybe a game of touch football might be the perfect thing for you. You get all of the benefits of revisiting your glory days with a group of friends without the long-term commitment to a team schedule.

Playing sports made you happy in your younger years. It might be just the thing now. There are so many benefits to getting moving and competitive sports are a great way to do it.

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