Student Fitness Journey: Sore Muscles

During your fitness journey you’re always going to run into those after workout pains. These muscle pains from working out are when the muscle fibers are injured during physical activity. The body then sends a message to the immune system to send white blood cells to repair the damage. Don’t be alarm this is a positive reaction for your body and this is when you know your body is changing. This pain you feel 72 hours performing physical activity is called delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS).

There are some trips to relieve this pain a little and to help you to stick with you fitness journey. Your body is not a machine and needs a break to heal the injuries. The best solution for this would be just to rest. This is why a lot of fitness programs have each day focus on different muscle groups. This means that the certain muscle groups have a certain amount of days to repair themselves.

The second method of relieving this pain is the Ice, then Heat trick. Take some ice and put it on the sore area, give it some time and then when you feel ready, warm up the area again. Apply the ice again if your muscles feel uncomfortable.

The last and the most important thing I want to add are to stay motivated. Though you’re in pain, hopefully it’s the good kind of pain where your body is changing. While enduring this pain keep in mind this most famous quote.

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Student Fitness Journey: Adapt to Healthy Eating

During my Student Fitness Journey I've been facing a problem quite frequently. When it comes to the new healthy eating part of the life style I find it easier to commit to the workouts than to a new eating plan. Here are something I've kept in mind while trying to control my eating habits.

The best thing that will keep you on track for healthy eating is to stay motivated. When you’re motivated and excited about your fitness goals it makes it easier to resist temptation. Create an eating plan and try your ultimate best to stay mentally strong to resist those bad for you goodies.

To avoid those goodies that are bad for you here are a couple of ways you can avoid temptation. Make sure you eat five times a day, and not just big meals all day, but snacks. Snacking for me personally has been the greatest thing. Since I've been working out more and eating healthier I find that my body gets hungry every 3-4 hours depending on what I eat. My body is always hungry and this shows that my body is always working. The bad part is when I haven’t eaten anything for 6 hours then those horrible temptations come back.

The most important element to make you stay focused on your eating plan is to reward yourself. By rewarding yourself with achieving smaller goals it won’t feel like a lifetime until you reach your fitness goals. I hope that this will help you as it has me on our own personal guide to healthy eating.

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Student Fitness Journey: Gym Bags Are Awesome

I never thought I would say this but I've actually purchased some gym stuff for my fitness journey. I've recently just bought myself a gym bag and I’m very happy with my purchase. Workout bags for women at least to me symbolize more than just having another cute bag to put your stuff in. When you buy a gym bag it shows that you’re ready for a commitment with your personal fitness goals and exercise programs. Before you bought the gym bag you were bringing your clothes in another kind of bag. Once you realized that you needed a gym bag because it’s quite annoying when you have to fit it all into one bag, especially when the clothes are sweaty.

The ultimate best thing about having a gym and how it helps with our work out plans is that the bag is that you can bring some essentials with you without having to leave some at home. Some examples of essentials would be some shower shoes and some accessories for a more pleasant and clean experience when using the provided showers. Some another good thing to bring with you now that you got this new and fancy bag is to bring along some extra snacks and a reusable water bottle. Since your bag can fit it now a reusable water bottle will not only save you money but also keep you hydrated all day long. Ever finish working out and feel like you can eat a cow? Now with your new bag you can bring along some nutritious and delicious healthy snacks so you to eat after your workout.

The bottle line is that gym bags are wonderful and buying one is not only adding another accessorize to your daily wardrobe, but also increasing your commitment to your fitness goals.

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Student Fitness Journey: Rational Goals

I have been on my student fitness journey for 4 weeks now and it’s taken me day by day to get use to this new healthy lifestyle. I have come to the realization that my fitness goal of losing 20lbs is going to be a slower process then I imagined.

There is this wonderful quote I've come across over and over again. This quote states,

                        “It takes four weeks for you to notice your body changing.
                                    Eight weeks for your friends to notice
                              Twelve weeks for the rest of the world to notice.”


I could not imagine anything else being truer. Being on my fourth week of fitness training I feel like I've defiantly gotten stronger. I can jog for a longer period of time, my stomach isn't as big as it was at the beginning, and I’m getting stronger overall.
When I first started tracking my fitness goals it was only about losing the 20lbs. I've come to the understanding that the only way to obtain the main fitness goal by having smaller objections to reach along the way. Now I’m tracking my fitness goals by a weekly period. If I can stay committed and work out for an hour per day for four days that to me is a success. I have to remember that at one point I was not doing any physical activity at all and now I’m doing four days out of the week, though I have not lost my 20lbs yet I still have something to be proud of. Now my fitness goals are divided in the three month period that the quote has stated. I've overcome the first month and still have two months left to go for the rest of the world to notice.

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