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Stress, a point of attention to improve your body

It is time to write a blog on another very important topic that can help you get the most out of your life. We have already talked sleep And its importance to obtain good progressBoth in the gym and for your mental health. In addition, we know the importance of nutrition and training. Most people know that these 3 elements (training, nutrition and rest) are necessary to obtain a dream body. However, there is another important element: stress.

What is stress?

Stress is a tension that occurs in the body in response to external stimuli and the physiological reaction that follows. Stress should not always be a negative element; A training stimulus is also a stress factor for the body, to which your body reacts and becomes stronger if the conditions are good. A good joke, a wedding or a good film can be considered «stress». After all, an accident occurs to which the body reacts by freeing all types of hormones and substances. This type of accident mentioned above can also be defined as acute stress. A training session occurs, a strong noise or an infection to which the body reacts and after which it returns to its «normal» state. This form of stress is not serious and could also be positive. On the other hand, chronic stress that will not disappear could be dangerous.

Chronic stress

Work on an important project that should be completed in a month. Full of time then to idle and spend the day watching videos on YouTube, read my blogs and enjoy the beauty of life. After a week, you stay 3 weeks, don’t worry yet and continue as you did before. After 2 weeks, the deadline is approaching, but you haven’t started yet. Another 1 week. Become a little stressful. It may be necessary to start thinking about a plan for 5 days. You remain 2 days before presenting your project or before taking the exam and you did nothing. Well done. The next day, the frustration and attack take over and cry miserably in bed, the knees bent, but you still don’t do anything. Quick, keep your room or clean your car. So you feel good again and then this feeling of guilt partially disappears. This is my approach to such a situation. The situation described above is actually a situation where you will feel stress for several days. If the entire study period or your career takes place in this way, there is a good chance that you want a form of chronic stress. Other examples include professional exhaustion (or burning), a monotonous and boring background noise or disappointments on frightening clowns that appear at night as soon as the light is turned off.

How serious is stress?

Stress is bad and even governs your life, unless you have a dream physique similar to that of a person with cushing syndrome (do a search on Google once). Chronic stress affects your physical and mental ability, hormonal balance, your feeling of happiness, your immune system, body composition and even longevity. I will give some examples under the extremely wide flu that stress can have on you. Stress strongly influences the immune system. People who suffer a lot of stress get sick faster and recover less quickly. In addition, too much stress in previous years can have a lasting effect on the immune response to a more advanced age (1). Stress also seems to have an impact on the heart and blood pressure (2) (3). Chronic stress has negative damage to the brain and can contribute to the development of depression, anxiety attacks, brain degeneration and also metabolic damage (4).

Stress and physical progress

And so I could continue again and again … you don’t want too much stress in your life if you want to age healthy. But we don’t care about you too, right? Muscle growth is the only thing that interests us, so it doesn’t matter, right? Well, stress will certainly not contribute to your progress in bodybuilding, for various reasons. Stress has a negative impact on the increase in force during training (5) and recovery after training (6). Un of the best tips mentioned in the above studies, it is not wanting to go too quickly. Continue when you know that it will not go is not only reckless in your love life.

When you are exposed to stress for a long time, this will also have a negative effect on body composition. If cortisol, the best -known stress hormone, reaches a high level for a long time, all types of effects can occur that are negative for the progress of your sports room. High long -term levels lead to the degradation of muscle proteins (7) and can reduce fat degradation (8). Also, cortisol opposes the effect of insulinwhich reduces the storage of nutrients (including amino acids and carbohydrates in muscle tissue). Insulin sensitivity will therefore be influenced. Finally, in the long term, cortisol reduces the formation of bone mass (9) and collagen (cartilage and tendon tissues) (10).

Stress is not a detail, stress is the basis

The conclusion should be clear; Stress has a huge impact on your life and body, and it is not One of these trivial subjects «How many minutes after my training should I make my shock with 50 grams of creatine, 60 grams of steed and 150 grams of whey to get the best results? Sleeping, regularity and a life without (too much) stress are the absolute basis if you want to make the most of your life. If or not you want to have the best possible physical appearance (I can’t force you to see the light) has nothing to do; Lack of sleep and excess stress are harmful to everyone.

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