My workout routine has always been erratic. I work out regularly for 6 weeks, then stop for a few, then start again. It’s a cycle.
But without a doubt, the weeks where I regularly workout, are the weeks where I have much more energy during the day.
Why exactly is this? It seems like it would be the total opposite. If you’re regularly breaking down your muscles, it would make sense that you would be MORE tired during the day. But I’ve noticed that it’s the exact opposite.
Why is this?
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In the short term, after exercise you will feel more tired as your body repairs the minor damage done during it. But better fitness also changes a lot of things about how your body operates.
It improves your body’s regulation of blood sugar, which means it can make energy available more quickly when it’s needed. It increases the amount of other short-term stores of energy, like glycogen, in your liver and muscles (as opposed to fat, which is long-term storage). It improves the efficiency of your lungs and heart, in part by increasing the number of red blood cells in your blood and the amount of hemoglobin in each of those cells. And by improving all these systems, it reduces the level of stress you place on your body *outside* of exercise.
When you work out, you push blood through the veins much harder and faster. Every subsystem in your body will suddenly get the nutrients, oxygen and energy they were waiting for, and they will get rid of waste like dead cells and co2 as well.
In the short term, after exercise you will feel more tired as your body repairs the minor damage done during it. But better fitness also changes a lot of things about how your body operates.
It improves your body’s regulation of blood sugar, which means it can make energy available more quickly when it’s needed. It increases the amount of other short-term stores of energy, like glycogen, in your liver and muscles (as opposed to fat, which is long-term storage). It improves the efficiency of your lungs and heart, in part by increasing the number of red blood cells in your blood and the amount of hemoglobin in each of those cells. And by improving all these systems, it reduces the level of stress you place on your body *outside* of exercise.
When you work out, you push blood through the veins much harder and faster. Every subsystem in your body will suddenly get the nutrients, oxygen and energy they were waiting for, and they will get rid of waste like dead cells and co2 as well.
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