Cross-Training for Fitness

Fitness refers to your heart, and the harder youvery fit and help to prevent injuries.Each sport
exercise, the more fit you become. But every time youstresses specific muscle groups. Cycling stresses the
exercise vigorously your muscles are injured, and theupper legs, while rowing stresses your back and upper
harder you exercise, the longer it takes for yourbody. If you cycle and row on the same day, you
muscles to heal. Muscle biopsies done the day after astress your upper legs and upper body on the same
person exercises vigorously show bleeding into theday. To reduce your chances of injuring yourself, you
muscles and disruption of the Z-bands that hold muscleshould take the next day off, or at least exercise at a
filaments together. You are not supposed to exercisevery low intensity. If you cycle on Monday and row on
vigorously again until the muscle sorenessTuesday, you allow your muscles 48 hours to recover
disappears.Most competitive athletes set up trainingfrom each sport. Pick two sports that use different
programs so they exercise vigorously enough on onemuscle groups and do them on alternate days. You
day to make their muscles feel sore for the next daycan then exercise more intensely in each sport and
or two and then after the soreness disappears, theyachieve a higher level of fitness.Dr. Gabe Mirkin has
exercise vigorously again. You can use the samebeen a radio talk show host for 25 years and
principle in your exercise program to achieve a higherpracticing physician for more than 40 years; he is
level of fitness. You can exercise vigorously on oneboard certified in four specialties, including sports
day and easy on the next few days or until themedicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and
soreness disappears, OR you can train in two or threehealth reports at weekly newsletter on fitness, health,
sports. This is called cross-training, and it can make youand nutrition.