| Here are ten tips to improve your | | | | 5) Your health will improve if you |
| fitness health. Even the fittest of | | | | minimize the number of tablets that you |
| athletes may not be really healthy. They | | | | take. Taking an asprin may seem |
| often trade off real health for fitnees | | | | harmless, but you will be surprised how |
| running the risk of becoming ill or | | | | often a headache can be cured by |
| injured. | | | | drinking water, having something to eat |
| 1) Listen to your body. As you are | | | | or sitting in a quiet room. |
| training it is easy to become | | | | 6) You will improve your health and |
| preoccupied with the repetitions you are | | | | fitness by stretching more. Your muscles |
| doing, or the time you've been | | | | get shorter through exercise, and if you |
| exercising. Leave your watch at home and | | | | never stretch you will get injured. One |
| slow down or walk when your body hurts. | | | | method is to warm up slowly first, then |
| 2) To improve your fitness health you | | | | spend several minutes stretching before |
| need to eat a varied diet. You should | | | | the main workout. Stretch thoroughly |
| aime to eat at least 5 fruit/vegetables | | | | after exercise as well. |
| a day. Your health will improve if you | | | | 7) You need to stay hydrated if you are |
| eat at least five different kinds of | | | | exercising more. This means drinking |
| fruit, then any vegetables will be a | | | | sports drinks or water if you are |
| bonus. | | | | sweating a lot. You lose minerals in |
| Take a complete day off from exercise | | | | your body while sweating. It is |
| every so often. It doesn't have to be | | | | recommended to drink five glasses of |
| every week, but over-working when you | | | | water a day, but if you are working out |
| are tired may have a detrimental effect | | | | you need to drink more than this. Don't |
| on your health and fitness. You become | | | | over do it, though, because it can be |
| fitter and healthier through rest as | | | | just as dangerous to drink too much as |
| much as exercise. | | | | too little. |
| 4) Limit the number of supplements you | | | | 8) Exercise with other people. You will |
| take. Adequate amounts can in fact be | | | | meet new friends, and your fitness will |
| absorbed by modifying the diet without | | | | improve if you have other people to |
| the risks involved by taking a dietary | | | | motivate you. |
| supplement. Consult a professional | | | | 9) Don't become too competitive as this |
| dietician. Many sprinters and power | | | | may harm your health. Motivation from |
| athletes, for example, take creatine | | | | other people is good, but you should |
| supplements because it gives them a | | | | only compete against yourself. Try too |
| legal edge. There is a risk, though, as | | | | hard to keep up with someone else, and |
| it is possible that they have been | | | | you could become injured. |
| contaminated by banned substances. This | | | | 10) Have fun! If you are having fun your |
| is a risk to your fitness health, and a | | | | health and fitness will improve, as you |
| risk financially if you are a | | | | will find it easy to stick to your |
| professional athlete. | | | | program. |