How To Make Your Bones Stronger When Losing Weight
Unlike muscle, skeletal system strengthening takes a very long time. And having a strong skeletal system is essential if you want to prevent one of the most common injuries among active and inactive people: bone breakages.
Unfortunately, because of sedentary living and a lack of exposure to sunlight, your bones may be much weaker than they should be. And this sets you up for serious injury in the near future.
So here is how to make your bones stronger:
1. Lift weights: Lifting weights is the most effective way to apply stress to your bones and stress is needed so that they become more dense and compact. The key here is to allow ample recovery time between resistance training sessions so that your bones can grow to the fullest.
2. Increase your flexibility: Becoming more flexible won’t really increase the health of your bones, but it will prevent them from breaking so easily. After all, most fractures are a direct result of inflexibility. You see, the more flexible you are the more freely your bones can move around in your body.
3. Train for balance: Again, increasing your balancing capabilities won’t directly affect bone health, but it will prevent injury. You see, many fractures and breakages are a direct result of poor falling technique. If you incorporate some balance training into your routine, you can prevent a lot of this.
4. Have some bone vitamins: Calcium is the biggest player here. But you have to be careful because too many calcium supplements are loaded with lead. So just be conscious of this and get most of your supplementation needs from reputable sources.
5. Don’t have too much protein: Protein is a double edged sword. It can relieve hunger like nothing else and promote fast rates of fat loss. However, it can also promote lethargy and calcium leakage. So if you are going to go the high protein route, make sure you do it while supplementing with calcium.
Increasing your bone strength is a great way to ensure a high quality of life over the long run. You see, most people with fractures aren’t even aware of it! So make sure you follow these tips today, don’t wait until tomorrow!
Regarded author, Katherine Crawford M.S., a Harvard fitness physiologist and former flabby arms refugee, instructs women on how to lose arm fat ASAP. Unearth how to get sexy arms by visiting her website about how to get toned and tight arms now!
March 1, 2010
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