Energy boost

Kate_X4
Kate_X4 Posts: 25 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
On days I hit the gym hard I feel like the energy lasts all day.
I know this sounds silly but I don't want to over do and injure myself so I try to go for a walk or play in The pool with my kids. But would doing a more strenuous workout later in the day be bad? I'm thinking like a yoga or a stretching video online?
I'm newer to fitness and not just crash dieting so wanna do things right.
Thanks for any tips or feedback.

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  • bojaantje3822
    bojaantje3822 Posts: 257 Member
    Build it up. See if you can do one 10 minute video a week for a month. Then the next month you do two videos a week or a longer one. (Or a yoga workout, whatever). If you build it up slowly and rest enough between workouts, listen to your body, you can avoid most injuries. If something feels wrong, stop the movement and scale it down to something that doesn't feel bad or move on to the next thing. Make the workouts fit your body and needs.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,148 Member
    Good reply by bojaantje.

    I don't think there's an absolute answer to your question: What you're essentially asking us is whether at your current personal and individual level of fitness, adding some additional vaguely-described thing will be too much or not. We don't have any intuitive sense of what your personal and individual level of fitness is.

    So, the answer above is a smart one: Try increasing gradually, and build up fitness manageably from wherever you are now.

    If you want to be more radical, pick a few-days period when other stressors in your life are lower, and try out a more aggressive schedule. See how you feel after repeating the additional work a few times. Energized? Fatigued? Slightly but pleasantly challenged? Overtaxed and burned out?

    Sure, you don't want to go so crazy that you hurt yourself, but you can probably add a bit more push to your schedule for a brief period (at a lower stress time, like I said), then assess, without it being a major risk, as long as you don't have pre-existing health conditions that complicate such a thing. (If you do, ask your doctor how to proceed, not us random no-qualifications idiot-strangers on the internet! 😉🤣)

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