Body Composition and Injuries
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- What Affects Body Composition?
- I ate a lot today so I should exercise for a long time.
- Physical Activity Injuries
- I think I just sprained my wrist!
- How to Reduce Physical Activity Injuries
- Make sure to drink this before you go out.
- You may be wondering what body composition even is. Well, to answer your question, body composition describes the percentages of fat, bone, muscle, and water in your body. There are many things that affect body composition, such as caloric balance, eating habits and activity level, metabolism, and your resting metabolism rate (RMR). Caloric balance is when you take in the same amount of calories as you burn. Eating habits if you take in more calories than you burn, they turn into fat cells while activity level makes it so the more active you are, the more calories you burn and vice versa. Metabolism is how fast your body burns calories you take in while your RMR represents the energy needed for involuntary actions. Body composition affects your body type, each being named ectomorph (lean and slender), endomorph (large, soft, and bulging body), and mesomorph (muscular and strong).
- Physical activity is very important to stay healthy and maintain low body composition, but, if you're not careful, you can get hurt. The most common injuries are muscle sprains, muscle strains, blisters, and shin splints. Muscle sprains are caused by an overstretched or torn ligament while muscle strains happen when a muscle or tendon is stretched too far. Blisters, pockets full of fluid that are usually on the hands or feet, are caused by burns or surface friction. Shin splints occur when there is pain in the front of your lower leg when walking, jogging, climbing, or stepping. If any of these happen, you should rest from activities for a while, at least until your injury has healed. Make sure to go to the doctor right away to get more detailed instructions.
- Before the injuries happen, you can try to prevent them or at least reduce the chance of them occurring. For one, you should get regular doctor check ups to see if you're healthy enough to do activities and if there are any risks. Doctors can catch something before it gets serious. Another thing you should do is performing warm ups before a workout; this can increase your blood circulation, heart rate, and stretch your muscles out more, making the exercise more safe and giving you less of a chance to have an injury. You should also wear protective gear, drink water every 20 minutes, and perform a cool down after your workout to reduce your heart rate and muscle temperature. Doing all of these will keep you safe and healthy.
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