Christmas training guide

Christmas arrives and with it the difficulty maintaining good habits. Dinners, meals and trips that make you lose your routine and increase your caloric intake.

You can always find a way to fight excesses without putting your health at risk, We give you several tips for this.

 Look for a sporting challenge.

You will have one San Silvestre in each city or town, so without a doubt it is the best option.

The fact of proposing this objective is none other than force you to maintain your training routineor to perform it successfully and without damage.

 Homework first thing.

Whenever possible, try to perform your training when you wake up. This way, unforeseen or later plans will not make you skip your training day.

 Reserve an hour a day for yourself.

If you set one one hour daily routine, which is possibly less than what you usually do on other dates, you will have at least the possibility of staying active every day.

 Avoid excesses.

You can enjoy another type of food that you don't usually include in your daily diet like Christmas sweets, but since you're going to do it try not to overdo it eating 5 polvorones a day or half suckling pig for dinner.

 Don't forget strength training.

At any place and time you can make a strength routine with one's own body weight, helping to maintain your muscle mass that in turn keeps the basal caloric intake higher.

 Do not take compensatory actions.

"As I trained an hour and a half today I can eat more caloriess ”, is a wrong thinking.

Must think globally, since one day you may have consumed more calories training than you have ingested but the next day you might not train.

 Listen to your body.

States of hangover They are frequent on these dates and without a doubt, intense training these days is not recommended.

Hydrate to help the body recover from the dehydration caused by alcohol, sleep the hours you need and make a low intensity activity to promote blood flow and the elimination of toxins.

 Look for external commitment.

One way to help you overcome the dreaded laziness these days is to meet a friend or relative to go out to train.

Knowing that you are going to fail someone will create a commitment in you not to skip the routine.

 It is time to enjoy but you can also train, willpower and organization are the key to these dates. 

Laura García Cervantes