Contents:
- Medical Video: What Will Happen to Your Body If You Walk Every Day
- Why is nighttime exercise not good for health?
- 1. Decreased endurance
- 2. Easy breathlessness
- 3. Sleeplessness
- So, night sports are absolutely not allowed?
Medical Video: What Will Happen to Your Body If You Walk Every Day
Solid busyness often makes us not have time to exercise in the morning or afternoon, so many choose to exercise at night. But for those of you who like night sports must be vigilant. Exercise, whenever it is, is indeed healthy, but the effect can be reversed if done late at night. Why is that?
Why is nighttime exercise not good for health?
This has to do with the body's biological clock. When late at night, the body's biological clock will remind us of the time to sleep. If you force exercise at night, this "schedule" change can outwit the biological clock to regulate how the body functions. As a result, the body becomes easily sick and tired quickly. Then, what are the health effects arising from the likes of night sports? See the explanation below.
1. Decreased endurance
Nighttime exercise can reduce the body's resistance, because the body will lose so much energy without enough pause to rest after a day of activities. Especially if your exercise intensity is classified as heavy or requires a lot of energy, such as lifting weights or swimming. Weak endurance makes you vulnerable to several diseases, such as flu or fever.
2. Easy breathlessness
Night air contains less oxygen than morning or evening. Well, exercising when the oxygen level of the environment is minimal makes you easily tired and exhausted.
Because the activity of exercise requires a lot of oxygen so that breathing and blood flow to the heart become smooth. Lack of oxygen during exercise can trigger hard to breathe after that.
3. Sleeplessness
Exercising too close to bedtime makes it difficult for you to sleep. Actually this can be overcome by not forcing too much exercise. Make your activities to practice fitness at night a relaxing and fun sport.
So, night sports are absolutely not allowed?
Night sports are actually not prohibited. You are advised to continue exercising as usual, but it is recommended to slow down the rhythm of the exercise as usual. Exercising at night with a much slower speed and power, will make it easier for the body to adjust heart rate, breathing and keep hormone levels normal. Also, don't forget about heating and cooling after exercising. Heating is very useful for relaxing muscles, improving blood circulation, and helping you prepare for better sleep afterwards.
But to see the relationship between type of exercise, fitness after exercise, and daily sleep patterns, you can keep a journal to compare the effects. Later, the results of comparisons between night sports and their effects on your body can be used as the right reference for organizing a day's activities.
The American Council on Exercise suggests making notes on the results of nighttime sports:
- Do you sleep easily after night sports
- Whether you wake up becomes sluggish afterwards
- What habits and appetites change
- How do you do the next exercise
By collecting and adjusting the data above, you can compare certain effects and effects on your body. If the effect is not good, you can change your exercise time in the morning or evening. You can also change and adjust the exercises you use when exercising. If there are no certain effects, you can continue the habit of night sports with the right portion of exercise and maintain food intake so as not to cause other risks later.
