Fitness and Nutritions
Sports Medicine
Sports medicine covers the fields of medicine, studying the influence of exercise and sports training in healthy people and sick people who play sports.
What is it?
Sports medicine includes those theoretical and practical branches of medicine that investigates the influence of exercise and sports training in healthy and diseased, and the athlete.
It also examines the effects of lack of exercise and injuries that may occur during the exercise. Thus, sports medicine provides useful results to prevent, treat and rehabilitate. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Risk of Exercise with Heat: Hyperthermia
Heat stroke or hyperthermia
What is it?
It is a severe attack if not treated in time can produce irreversible consequences (brain damage) or even be fatal when inside the body temperature exceeds 42 °. Heatstroke can be a significant loss of fluids or even without this loss occurs.
With fluid loss: The person comes to heat exhaustion (the second step of heat injury) so much sweat or not drinking enough. As a result of this loss of fluid the body has lost the ability to adequately remove the heat. This is what happens to an athlete who makes a long journey without carrying water. Read the rest of this entry »
The Risk of Exercise with Heat: Heat Cramps and Exhaustion
Heat cramps
What is it?
Is a form of muscle cramp occurs when the stress and heat are combined, it seems that a low level of salts that are needed for muscle contraction.
What to do?
If you get a cramp of this type have to stop and stretch the affected muscle. It may happen that by stretching the muscle cramp is to give you a crick in the antagonist, which has the opposite feature (for example, are stretching the quadriceps and you get a cramp in the hamstring).
It is to help you stretch or if you’re alone, without tensing the muscles stretched the least. In addition to stretch well, drink water or a sports drink to replenish the salts. Read the rest of this entry »
The Risk of Exercise with Heat: Preventive Measures
It’s one of those days where everything seems to concentrate the sun on your head and you do not you think of anything more than a little jogging. Do you think with everything that you are sweating you’re going to destroy “triathlete body” but the reality is that your body does not deserve such punishment, your health is in serious danger. Learn about the injuries caused by the heat.
Preventive measures
When the body produces heat that can not be eliminated quickly enough to avoid overheating occur progressive calls for heat injury. In a healthy athlete / ay in their right mind (two things that do not have to agree …) is very difficult to give a heat stroke with serious consequences, however should be taken into account a number of preventive measures: Read the rest of this entry »
To Cover the amount of calcium
Calcium is an essential mineral for the body since both important roles in metabolism, as in muscle contraction and the formation of structures, so we should not encourage shortcomings, but to promote coverage of the recommended daily allowance.
To cover the amount of calcium 1000 mg daily in a middle-aged adult, it is necessary to include various foods in certain quantities that the body can use this mineral to the specific functions and thus away from the chances of gaps. Here’s what foods and quantities you can cover the amount of calcium throughout the day.
For about 1000 mg calcium daily as part of a varied and balanced diet, you eat the following foods:
* 1 cup whole milk or skim.
* 1 large 200g yoghurt approximately
* 1 piece of semi-hard cheese, partially cured
* 1 serving of pasta and / or vegetables
* 1 serving of meat
* 1 / 2 whole egg
* 4 servings of bread
* 5 servings of fruits and vegetables
It is clear that if any of these foods we consume, we can add calcium to the diet with the help of nuts, sardines in oil, or more milk.
But as we see, with a varied and balanced diet, because we do not have to be at risk for calcium deficiency, but respecting the quantities of each food group can acquire the necessary daily dose of the mineral.
Effects of Dehydration on an Exercise Routine
You may have recently started your exercise routine, but lack of power to exercise yourself you need to spend or not to maximize the physical training. Pay attention to the amount of water you drink and remember that only a correct combination between sport and hydration you will achieve the expected results.
Dehydration begins long before the thirst seizes you. When this happens your blood not only lose fluid, your whole body is lost unbalanced minerals and limiting the flow of oxygen to the brain. The result leads to tiredness and loss of concentration.
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Egg white, ideal for thin or define your muscles
The egg represents the pure protein and can be easily separated from the yolk, is the fatty part of food that contains it, therefore, is ideal for weight loss as well as to define muscles .
The protein found in egg white involves a significant energy cost for the agency, for its complex metabolic process, therefore, is helpful when losing weight. In addition, as part of a diet sufficient in calories, carbohydrates, proteins and fats, egg white is ideal in the process of muscle definition, because it promotes fat burning and building muscle structure. Read the rest of this entry »
Pilates is good for hypertension
exercise to hypertension is a somewhat delicate issue, although very positive if done with proper prescription. Movements of force in certain positions and, above all, isometric contractions can trigger blood pressure to levels downright risky.
What is an isometric contraction? To understand, is when you perform without moving force (or shortening or muscle lengthening). For example, if you push a wall without moving, you’re doing strength and, unless you do get a lot and move the wall … you perform a static contraction. This is exactly an isometric contraction.
The aim was to assess diastolic function during and after the completion of exercise in patients with hypertension Read the rest of this entry »
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