- Symptoms of excessive physical exercise
- Consequences of excessive exercise
- What to do to treat exercise compulsion
Excessive exercise causes training performance to decrease, impairing muscle hypertrophy, as it is during rest that the muscle recovers from training and grows.
In addition, doing excessive physical activity is bad for your health and can result in muscle and joint injuries, exhaustion and extreme muscle fatigue, making it necessary to completely stop training for the body to recover.
Symptoms of excessive physical exercise
Excessive physical exercise can be noticed through some symptoms, such as:
- Tremors and involuntary movements in the muscles; Extreme tiredness; Loss of breath during training; Strong muscle pains, which only improve with the use of medications.
In the presence of these symptoms, one should reduce the frequency and intensity of training to allow the body to recover, in addition to the need to go to the doctor to assess the need to take medications or undergo treatment to help recovery.
Consequences of excessive exercise
Excessive physical exercise causes changes in hormone production, increased heart rate even during rest, irritability, insomnia and weakened immune systems.
In addition to damage to the body, intense physical activity can be harmful to the mind and become a compulsion to exercise, in which the obsession with improving the appearance of the body generates intense anxiety and stress.
What to do to treat exercise compulsion
When identifying symptoms of excessive physical exercise or changes in the functioning of the body, a doctor should be consulted to assess whether there are problems with the heart, muscles or joints that need to be treated.
In addition, it is necessary to stop physical activity and start slowly (look for a professional trained in physical education), after the body has returned to function well. Follow-up with a psychotherapist may also be necessary to treat the obsession with physical activity and help to reduce stress and anxiety.
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