Building strong bones is like building a house-a long and slow process. And having strong bones is critical if you are active or if you want to prevent one of the most common and debilitating injuries: fractures.
Now the main problem here, however, is that a lot of what you may be doing on a day to day basis could be decreasing the health of your bones. And weak and unhealthy bones will set you up for a sure fire injury.
So here are 5 tips for strengthening your skeletal system when burning fat:
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. Stretch: Stretching won’t have a direct effect on your bone health. However, it is a great way to prevent future injury. You see, many bone injuries are a direct result of inflexibility. So making your muscle and connective tissue more flexible is a great way to prevent bone injuries.
3. Increase proprioception: In other words, increase your balance abilities. Doing this will also prevent fractures and bone breaks. Again, by becoming more adept at balancing your body in space, your risk for falling and hurting yourself decreases a lot.
4. Load up on calcium: But make sure it’s from the right sources. Because if you take calcium from the wrong sources, you could end up with way too much lead in your body. I recommend taking supplements from reputable brands ONLY. And also make sure to eat lots of leafy greens.
5. Be wary of high protein intakes: Eating lots of protein causes excess calcium to be secreted from urine. Having said that, certain metabolic types do very well with high protein intakes. So if you absolutely have to go on a high protein diet to lose weight, supplement with lots of calcium.
Trying to lose weight while having weak bones is unnecessary and unhealthy. So make sure you follow this advice sooner rather than later. After all, later usually never comes!
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