Personal Fitness - The Body's Adaptive Response to Food and Fitness

Did you know that there are scientific principles of fitness universally recognized to be followed to improve fitness and performance? The only principle that almost all athletes have to face sooner or later, which is the principle of adaptation.

Adaptation to exercise

Adaptation refers to the body's ability to adapt to changing physical demands. The principle of adaptation explains why beginners athletes are sore after the first workout, but experience some muscle soreness after doing the same exercises for weeks.

Adaptive response of the body is essential for skill development, muscle growth and overall progress. But it is also responsible for these trays gym causing frustration and undermine motivation.

For example, strength training, once you adapt to a determined resistance, needs more strength to move forward. But there are limits to the amount of stress that the body can tolerate before it starts to decompose.

This is why personal trainers to establish training programs that increase time and intensity at a specific speed and have built rest days throughout the program.

Adapting to reduced caloric intake

By adjusting the low caloric intake over a long period of time that the metabolism of your body will be regulated, slow your fat loss and create frustration when everything seems to stop working.

This mechanism is programmed in our genetic code of human beings so it is almost impossible to beat, but can be manipulated. Here are two strategies for this.

1. During each month to reduce the contribution to abandon your diet and increase your calories on those days. This may seem paradoxical, but consider this: if an obese person reduces their intake a few days every month are going to lose weight? The short answer is, No. inverse not gain weight either.

Two. Changing the entire menu every two weeks. Eat the same food every day for two weeks and then radically change what you eat, keep a good variety and the same total calories count intact. This "clash" system and help maintain metabolic processes humming.