Excessive exercise and its aftermath

• April 19, 2024

To practice physical exercise Daily, for at least half an hour, helps maintain a healthy organism. However, doing it in excess generates diverse consequences to health, from muscular contractures , lesion s in joints Y muscles , until the modification in behavior habits that later will hinder the development of a normal life.
 
In this regard, the doctor Gerardo Guevara Mejía , coordinator of Medical Programs, in the Coordination of Integrated Health Programs , PrevenIMSS He explained that it is important that people perform physical activities in different stages of his life, although doing it disproportionately generates disturbances in sleep and of conduct, which can lead people to stop performing their work and family activities because of this excess.
 
In this sense the expert from Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), noted that there are two factors that influence people to exercise too much: "One is the main social, because many young people take as a model to follow some high performance athletes, such as physicoconstructivists. personality, and when they are so passionate about exercising, they develop addictive behaviors, such as vigorexia (disorder that is characterized by having an obsession to perform at least 2 hours a day exercise) "

Guevara Mejía clarified that in Mexico people are not used to the physical activity and there is a high percentage of sedentary lifestyle , so when exercising intensely, it causes them Heart problems , Arrhythmias and even sudden death:

"In the IMSS we have sports units, social security centers, cultural areas and resorts where exercise and sports are promoted in a correct and appropriate manner".
 
With this, said Gerardo Guevara, people are oriented to adopt an active and healthy lifestyle and thus avoid relapse and continue in that pattern of "addiction to exercise" or sedentary lifestyle .
 

The key is always to have the opportune and personalized orientation of the specialists and to modify in a healthy and gradual way certain habits to improve your quality of life. Remember that your health is the most important thing. Do you practice exercise; every when and with what duration do you do it?
 

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