As soon as you finish your workout, it's crucial to do some cool-down exercises for at least 5 to 10 minutes, as cool down allows your heart rate and breathing to go back to normal.
When we exercise, our body creates lactic acid ( you know that burning sensation in your last reps? that's the lactic acid).
Stretching or cooling down cuts the lactic acid production helps remove it from your system.
We always talk about working out, how it is necessary to exercise, how exercising will improve your life, etc.
But exercising it's not all, it is not about working out every day of the week!
In the same way, we need a break from social media, from working, and many other things to improve our mental health; our body and muscles also need a break.
It is not only good for your body to take breaks in between the exercises to help you recover, but also you need a full day to rest.
When creating a workout plan, it is vital to include rest days!
WHAT IS SELF-CARE?
Self-care means to take the time to do or practice things that will help you improve your physical and mental health.
No matter what you do for a living or where your work is o if you are still a student. Our daily routines can eventually make us feel stress, burnout, and with many negative thoughts.
A Self-care routine will help us overcome all the negative and stressful situations we deal with every day.
The summer is officially over, and so is the warm and hot weather in most places.
As the weather changes to colder temperatures, our skin suffers from these changes too.
I have a combination of oily skin. But during the cold weather, it tends to get dry.
I can´t keep using the same face cleanser or even moisturizer, because they either don't work or irritates my skin.
As a beginner, the difficult part of starting to workout at home is how to start?
If you want to work out at home and see results, you need to create a workout plan, but how do you create a workout plan that works?
Thinking about a workout plan can be a little overwhelming, but it is not that difficult to start with if you have your intentions clear!
Do you know how to stretch your tight hamstrings?
When we do stretches, we don't always do them properly, not just because we have a poor posture: as I mention in my previous post about the most common stretching mistakes.
But, because we are not using the proper exercise to stretch a specific muscle.
Especially when we do leg stretching, there are different exercises to stretch the muscles of our legs, and each one is for one or two specific parts.
Doing stretches after your workout helps to improve the range of motion of the joints; keeps the muscles healthy, and helps develop flexibility.
Stretching is one of the best ways to keep your muscles healthy and in top shape,
Did you know there are different stretching types?
Yes! there are different stretching types, each one has a purpose, but the most popular ones are two:
Believe it or not many people don´t know the difference between warming up and stretching, as a result, they don´t know when to do which one or end up skipping one; most of the time most people don´t warm-up
Let's talk about stretching. In this post, I want to focus more on the mistakes we made when we stretch.
These mistakes can cause some injuries in the long run and are the reason why we don't increase our flexibility.
Have you ever feel like exhausted? Like you lose interest in doing the things you were passionate about.
You notice your performance in your job or activities is not the same as before.
These are some signs that you are burnout. But, Why do we feel like that?
Do you stretch every day?
I'm sure you have seen in every single social media platform the phrase: have healthy habits or switch to healthy habits.
DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A HEALTHY HABIT IS?
A healthy habit is a behavior that creates benefits to either physical or mental health or both. Usually requires discipline and self-control.
We all want healthy and beautiful looking skin, but are you doing the right things to help your skin stay healthy?
When it comes to the skin: less is more. What does that mean?
Well, it means the fewer products and the fewer chemicals and things you use, the better.
