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No pain, no gain?

It's Januari 1st. Your's on the bathroom scales, groaning. If you had eaten that last piece of Christmas pud, perhaps you wouldn't have put on than extra kilo. Never mind, you can lose it and get fit at the gym! Or is that the right thung to do? if you will stand a huge chance of injuring yourself in the gym or on the squash court. You must take care before launching yourself into a vigorous eexercise routine: if you don't treat your body with respect, it won't function as you want it to. The knee, in particular, can cause untold problems. We wouldn't have problems with our knees if we still. Walked on all fours, but they're not up to a vertical pounding on the treadmill for an hour a day. All of our joints can cause problems, if you want to play football safely, make sure you wear the right boots to protectyou ankles.Decent coaching. Is essential if you're going to take up a racket sport. Something as simple as a wrong-size grip can cause tennis elbow.

Maniy sports injuries are caused by insufficient warm-ups.If everyone spent a few minutes stretching their muscles before exercising, they would experience much less pain during exercise itself. But people can be stubborn about pain when exercising. The phrase 'no pain, no gain' is rubbish. If you feel pain when you're exercising, you stop at once! Sport has so many other hazards, though. Golf, you would think, is relatively harmless. Not so for Anthony Phua, a Malaysian golfer who was killed by getting in the way of his partner's swing. Now, if he hadn't taken up that perticular form exercise in that first, place iit would have happened. What can you do if you don't want to risk sport, but you still want to lose weight? Well, it's not all bad news for couch potatoes. If you're happy to lose calories steadily but slowly, jut stay at home: sleeping burns 60 calories an hour, ironing 132 and cooking 190. Just don't eat what you cook.