Contents:
- Medical Video: 5 Common Signs of Heart Disease
- Why do you also have to check your health before you start exercising?
- 1. To avoid injury and the emergence of complications of the disease
- 2. To find realistic targets for your body and monitor progress
- Why do professional athletes need to undergo a health check before joining a new club?
Medical Video: 5 Common Signs of Heart Disease
For those of you who are football fans, you must have read the news that your favorite soccer star underwent a health check at the club transfer. You might be wondering what the health check really is. Is it only to see an injury to the soccer player? Or are there other important things that need to be examined?
You might also think that a health check before a match only needs to be undertaken by professional athletes. Did you know that ideally this examination is carried out on all people who want to exercise? Why is this important?
Why do you also have to check your health before you start exercising?
1. To avoid injury and the emergence of complications of the disease
The benefits of exercise are no doubt. But keep in mind also, exercise can actually harm you in certain cases. For example, in people with a history of a heart attack it is certainly not arbitrary to exercise if they do not want to experience it sudden cardiac arrest.
Heavy physical activity is one of the triggers of a heart attack in those at risk. So, if you have a history of chest pain or even a history of a heart attack, you should first consult with a doctor to find out when you can start sports and sports like what you can do.
Basically, having a disease is not an obstacle to running a sport. Each disease has its own challenges so there needs to be special consideration in order to get optimal benefits from the sport. For example, with people with history of asthma that is prone to relapse during exercise. With special strategy, they certainly can exercise comfortably. But if it is done carelessly, it is actually short of breath and endangering lives.
2. To find realistic targets for your body and monitor progress
You certainly have a target in exercising. There are those who want to lose weight, increase muscle mass, or may have further goals, such as prevent heart disease and other diseases.
Health checks are carried out to determine the initial picture of your fitness by measuring body composition (such as body mass index and body fat composition), pulmonary heart capacity, muscle strength and endurance, and flexibility. You know your starting point and how far you are from the target. Thus, you can set realistic targets.
For example, you weigh 80 kg and it turns out you need to lose 15 kg to achieve a normal body mass index (normoweight) Targeting 15 kg of weight loss in 3 days is certainly impossible. You may be disappointed and lose motivation because the target is difficult to achieve. If you are targeting a 1 kg reduction in a week it certainly sounds more realistic.
In addition, by knowing your starting point, you can also monitor your progress. When you know that the hard work you do is paying off, of course you will become more enthusiastic. If there is no progress, you should think of a new strategy that is more effective in achieving the target.
Why do professional athletes need to undergo a health check before joining a new club?
Actually the reason is the same. Especially for those who take part in sports competitions in the international arena as livelihoods, of course they are required to exercise at the highest level in order to obtain victory. Their body is a valuable asset for the club. Therefore, a health check when entering a club becomes important.
Ideally, the club wants players to participate in all matches in optimal conditions. For this reason, the club's medical team needs to know all the history of illnesses and injuries experienced by the player. The medical team will then design a strategy so that players with a history of asthma can play without tightness and players with a history of knee injuries not susceptible to re-injury.
Therefore, do not be surprised if there are players who "did not pass" health checks such as Victor Valdes who did not move to AS Monaco in 2014 due to a knee injury and Patrik Schick who recently canceled his move to Juventus due to heart problems. It could be that the club feels that the condition or health risk that the player has is not proportional to the amount of money invested.
This check also provides information about the level of fitness of players when they are just entering the club. When players get injured and take long breaks without exercise, their fitness will decrease. The level of fitness of a player when he first enters the club becomes a benchmark that needs to be achieved so that he can return to giving his performance as well as when he hasn't been injured.
