If you want to lose weight as efficiently as possible, you have to exercise. There is no way around this-research has shown that combining diet and exercise is the best way to lose weight.
Now the main issue here is that the way you exercise could be damaging your connective tissue. This can happen even if you don’t feel anything while you exercise.
Thus, here is how to prevent damage to your connective tissue when losing weight:
1. Increase your flexibility: By increasing your flexibility, you will prevent over tight muscles form misaligning your joints. A common example here is someone with a tight chest that pulls the arm bone forward. Over time, this can injure the shoulder.
2. Eat specific foods: Certain foods play a major role in the health of your joints and bones. Calcium, magnesium and vitamin D are all major players here. Now you should consider supplementing your diet with these nutrients because you are most likely not getting them from natural sources. For instance, do you get twenty minutes of sunshine each day?
3. Supplement with shells: Doing so will protect your joint spaces and potentially regenerate your damaged cartilage. The main catch here, however, is that this effect takes a long time. And this makes sense since cartilage wears out over long periods of time.
4. Stay upright: Working from the seated position is a sure fire way to place excess stress on your lower back’s connective tissue. So make sure you remain upright as much as possible. And keep in mind that building a standing desk is very easy. If needed, you can always buy one.
5. Reduce smoking, and if possible, eliminate it: Interestingly, smoking makes your bones brittle. And brittle skeletal systems are more likely to break with minimal stresses. Even worse, you could develop hair fractures which are the most under-diagnosed type of fracture.
Keeping your bones, joints and muscles healthy is very important if you want to be able to keep on exercising well into your later years. And the good news is that most injuries are preventable with the right approach.
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