Young age is a great time to develop and maintain healthy habits. These habits will help you live a healthy and enjoyable life later in life.
Maintaining these habits you can significantly increase your life expectancy and wick away many diseases and health-related problems.
Where you spend so much time planning and working for professional life, spending time with friends and family, we often miss the most important one. Self-care and taking care of our mental and physical health should be our priority.
Before it’s too late you should start working from right this moment. Late in time, you will only be wishing to have started a healthier lifestyle and routine earlier in life.
So, start now. But what should you do? The following are the habits you should develop.
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Do what you enjoy
Not just a workout and exercise but also professionally you should be doing what you like. This makes that activity less boring and keeps you engaged.
On top of that, you willingly learn and advance yourself without fussing over it. When it comes to workout this is easier than professional choice. Here you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
For instance, I should get the No-Gi rash guards and shorts and get started. Locate the best schools, choose among the best programs, see other important requirements, and go for it.
Later on, if you feel like switching to MMA, then do so. But remember, do not switch quickly and often, consult some professional before doing so, and be sure about it.
Exercise regularly
If cardio, lifting weights, and martial arts is not your thing, there are other ways to maintain fitness.
HIIT, swimming, soccer, sports, rock climbing, and dancing are a few things you can try. All these are also forms of physical exercise so why not try what you like among them.
But the real thing is to do it regularly because that is what makes it useful. Choosing what you like won’t make you force yourself to do it daily.
But there are ways to keep the motivation high even if you don’t like the workout.
Exercise for 20 or 30 minutes, make friends or workout with a friend, join group class, or keep reminding yourself why you started this routine.
Do strength training
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The cardio workout is good and can help you maintain a good lean physique. However, to make your muscles, joints, and bones, strong strength, and resistance training is a must.
With just cardio, you can be jeopardizing muscle and joint strength. Plus strength training can help you build some muscle to get a muscular beach-ready body, don’t you like to have that.
Maintain a healthy balanced diet
Eating a healthy and balanced diet is as important as anything else. Depending on your body type and fitness goals, you have to get a personalized diet plan. But here are some basic rules you should never forget and break.
Stay away from unhealthy foods like soda, junk food, sugar and processed food, and excess eating.
You can have a cheat day, depending on the diet plan, to eat these foods because after all, you are human.
Never workout empty, stomach, and definitely not when feeling full. Be done with a meal 60 or 90 minutes before the workout and if you are snacking reduce the time to 30 minutes.
These never exclude carbs, protein, and fiber out of the diet. Eating less healthy fats is fine if you are working to lose weight.
Divide calories into different meals, eat more carbs before a workout, and more protein as soon as you can after working out.
Portion control
Some eat small servings of snacks if they are processed. Instead, make fruits and veggies your snack and eat more.
To lose weight, maintain a calorie deficit, and to lose weight, increase your calorie intake than calories burned.
Protein and carbs are must either you want to lose fat or gain muscle. Both, 5 small meals and 3 large meals are fine.
Remember the above-mentioned tips and choose whatever suits you following that.
About The Author:
Bob is a professional nutritionist, dietitian, workout enthusiast and adrenaline junkie based in Portland, Oregon. You can find him writing about health, fitness, and diet tips when he is not giving his time at the local as a professional nutritionist. Other than that exploring the world one step at a time and spending time with his family and a lovely dog are his favorite getaway routes. He started writing about health and fitness so that he can empower people letting them know about its importance, especially the young ones.
