Many people quit exercising soon after hitting the gym. Even in the fresh air, they no longer want to exercise at a slightly higher intensity.

About this, HotNews.ro talked to Dr. Florin Ioan Belenice, who specializes in dietary medical therapy and psycho-nutrition.

“Any actions we take related to our health should have a purpose and a purpose,” he said.

Aspects of life that a person who wants to be healthy should think about

According to him, if we are talking about a person who wants to be healthy, he should think about several aspects of life:

1. Food that is within reach

2. Movement, which is at hand, but a little further, because in order to eat, we must eat in order to survive, in order to move, we must move in order to move, but not necessarily, not necessarily we also have to perform physical activity.

3. Sleep

4. Stress, which is a part of everyone’s life

5. The social group to which we belong. It determines the habits of the individual.

“When a person comes to the gym, most of the time they come, in my experience with patients, to lose weight. Of course, there are people who come to get in good physical shape, but there are far fewer of them,” he said.

• Deciding to hit the gym as the first step to a lifestyle change or weight loss is questionable, to say the least, as 85% of the process is nutrition and 15% exercise.

“Movement is extremely important, but not the first. I always encourage patients to exercise. There are studies that have shown that people who first decided to come to the gym and do more than 1 workout per week give up in the first 3 weeks,” said the doctor.

Why many people refuse to do sports

Dr. Florin Ioan Bălănică tells us that this is because they are not ready for such physical activity.

1. Most of the time I can do it myself, or I can’t find the right coach to increase the intensity of the training to individual capacity, and then he either gets injured or finds it too hard

2. They get on the scale and see that they haven’t lost any weight and think it’s pointless.

“I have a lot of patients who come to my clinic who have been injured in certain gyms, a large chain of gyms, and they say to me, ‘Doc, let’s talk about nutrition, but we don’t hear about exercise. It’s because they had this inappropriate experience,” Belenike also stated.

Some things to try if you’re “scared of sports”

1. As the doctor said, in order to lose weight, for example, nutrition is very important, sports come second.

The ideal is not to drastically change your diet, but to slightly reduce the amount of a product containing sugar, for example: stop eating chocolate, but by half, or replace processed food with a clean alternative. Small steps in the right direction.

2. If you have a personal trainer, but you don’t like the movement because you don’t feel encouraged, or you have pain after the workout (not the muscles, but some joints), you can try another one. It may also happen that you are not “on the same page”, this is normal.

3. Don’t like working up a sweat or doing functional training? You can try pilates or yoga. You will sweat, but less.

4. Do you like movies? You can go to the alley while watching a series or movie on your phone. The same on an exercise bike.

5. It has warmed up outside, active recreation is possible. In the park or on the streets, you can walk at a slightly more alert pace. Rent a bike and ride a few laps around the park.

Actions must be adapted to the goal

“When a person has a goal, we adapt all actions to this goal. For example, if we are discussing an athlete who wants to perform, everything is very difficult without supplements,” said Belenike.

According to him, if we are talking about the average person who wants to lose weight or start exercising, most of the time, the tendency and intention of these people is to get quick benefits.

“Then to get it fast, I take a protein, a protein isolate before I work out. When we are ordinary people who want to do physical activity, we first need to talk to a specialist who knows what functional movement means and who can build an appropriate workout,” the doctor told us.

If we’re talking about performance, he says, we should be talking about supplements in all their forms. All this should be based on the structure of a correct and adapted diet for a given person.

There was a video once on the internet where a sports fan said that you can start exercising but you have to remember that today you won’t see any change, tomorrow the same, the day after tomorrow the same, the next day the same but at some point you will see the result. It does not come immediately, but over time.

You have to make a lifestyle out of it. Just like you can’t start your day without coffee, exercise should be a part of your daily routine. When the goal is a quick result, the tendency is to give up if the effect is not immediately visible. You should think that you are doing sports for health. The results will be visible after some time, sooner or later.

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