Don't Skip Your Workout! 5 Effects of Stopping Exercise

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Working out is the best way to keep the body and mind healthy. It helps you get in shape while sweating out unwanted anxieties caused by stress. However, not all people have the luxury of time to maintain a workout plan for a few years.

Sometimes, life gets on the way. You skip one work out session and another two more sessions and, before you know it, you are off the workout wagon. Then, it will be too late to realize that you are already out of shape.

It will take some people months to years of working out before they reach their fitness goal, and to give it all up is such a disappointment.

Here's what going to happen to your body and health if you stop working out.

You get tired and winded fast.

According to Men's Health, a person loses 20 percent of his or her VO2 max within two weeks of not working out. VO2 max is a measurement of how much oxygen a person uses in his or her working muscles. That is the reason why you easily get winded if you run through a couple of miles after not hitting the gym for weeks.

Your blood sugar increases.

If a person stops working out, the muscles relax and would no longer consume the sugar it needed for energy because they are no longer active. In the process, your blood sugar increases and if you decide to stay off the gym for a few more weeks; it may begin to have an effect to your health and body, if it hasn't already.

The blood pressure will also rise.

Exercising actually drops your blood pressure to its normal level compared to living a sedentary lifestyle. There are so many positive effects of sweating it out at the gym and having a normal blood pressure is just one of them.

You will get out of shape fast.

Dedication is very important when you choose to stay in shape and be healthy. You spend so much time at the gym to reach your goal but, if you slack off and stop your workout routine for two weeks, it will already have an effect to your muscles and body shape. By the time you decide to hit the gym again, you may have to start your fitness program all over again to catch up to those lost times, according to the Daily Burn.

It will affect you mentally.

According to Men's Health, fewer brain cells will be developed when a person lives a sedentary lifestyle compared to someone that is constantly active. If you want to be smarter, you may want to start running or go to your nearest gym.