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Do you workout? Here's why you need to start timing it
Updated On: 05 March, 2023 05:48 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Timing your workouts ensures that you get enough exercise without overdoing it. It also makes you less prone to losing out on motivation, in turn helping you achieve your fitness goals in a sustainable manner
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A common misconception around fitness remains that working out for longer durations fetches better results. The reality is quite the contrary. The ideal duration of exercise varies depending on your fitness goals. Timing your workouts ensures that you get enough exercise without overdoing it. It also makes you less prone to losing out on motivation, in turn helping you achieve your fitness goals in a sustainable manner. Fitness expert Meenakshi Mohanty, shares with us why timing your workout is essential:
`Living at the gym` is not a healthy solution
Have you heard the expression `too much of a good thing`? It often holds true in case of working out. While performing a challenging workout to gain strength, your body needs time to rejuvenate. In contrast, a strenuous workout, while removing stress chemicals, produces new ones. It can knock off the immune system for up to 72 hours. Strength training generates minute rips in muscle tissue, which when mended, strengthen it. If you don`t allow your body a day or two off between strenuous exercising, it won`t be able to restore itself.
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