It is very difficult to give general notions of a healthy lifestyle, since there is no key for everyone to be at their weight or to stick to one type of training or another. Much is said that "we are what we eat» or that to lose weight it is essential to strength training. Yes, it is, but do you want to maintain a healthy lifestyle for the long term or just to achieve a goal?
Submitting ourselves to a diet with food and calorie restrictions or to a workout that we don't like will not only frustrate us, but it will encourage us to abandon and return to our previous lifestyle. We want you to learn that we are not only what we eat and that although food is important, it is not the only factor that will make you maintain your weight or be healthy.
Fundamental factors: rest, food and training
What does it mean to be healthy? ¿Do you question some time?
Logically, having a balance diet It helps us favorably to stay healthy. But it is not the only factor that influences this lifestyle; the rest and training They are also part of this triangle. As soon as one of the three fails, we assure you that it will have a negative impact on any of the other two.
Rest
The experts are very insistent that we must rest about 7 or 8 hours a day, it will be for something, right?
It is very difficult to ensure that we lead a healthy lifestyle because we train every day and are subjected to a varied diet, but we only rest for 4 or 5 hours.
Perhaps you can do this short break on time due to some unforeseen event, but I assure you that in the short term it will affect your training and diet. By staying awake longer, you will need more food and surely you go to unhealthy products to alleviate fatigue. Obviously, being low on energy, you sports performance will be much worse; being able to injure yourself easily and not progressing in your goals.
Training
Each of these factors are linked to each other. When we do some physical activity, we are helping our rest to be better. Just as our diet also directly influences our sports performance and the evolution of physical objectives.
Food
I'm sure it's the factor that most worries those who claim to lead a "healthy lifestyle." They think that eating healthy is equivalent to being healthy. And as you have seen, it is not.
Before you stop to think about whether fruit or carbohydrates make you fat at night, why don't you plan what your diet should be like for the rest of your life? Would you bear to be every day without eating fruit at night even if you feel like it?
Is there a healthy lifestyle the same for everyone?
A healthy style is based on not obsessing over the best "patterns" and adapting it to our abilities.
For example, you may have heard that strength training is great for losing fat. It is? Yes, of course, but it can be bitter for someone who shies away from lifting weights and counting reps. The ideal is to find a training that you could gladly do for the rest of your life; that nothing supposes an obligation. You should do the same with food.
Take the three key factors and think about how you can adapt your life to them.