The Side effect of not eating a balanced diet while working out regularly

The muscles you engage during exercise, whether it’s cardio, resistance training or flexibility work, rely on the nutrition you provide them through your diet. Supplying your body with nutrients before you work out, after you work out and in the recovery period between workouts can impact the quality of your session and affect your fitness goals. In some cases, fueling up during an exercise session can improve your results as well.
Let’s say you go to the gym and do an extensive workout focusing on biceps and back muscle groups for the day. Your arms are sore, your back hurts (healthily), and you’re exhausted. You’ve literally just shredded your muscle tissue with hopes that it will regrow bigger and stronger than it was before.

When you get home, you sit down on the couch with a bowl of ice cream.

Do you think it’s reasonable to expect your body to rebuild itself without giving it the proper tools?
Crappy food isn’t really all that great for your health to begin with. You get lots of calories with little nutritional value. You don’t get the vitamins and minerals that your body needs to maintain the ongoing chemical processes in your body.

There’s nothing wrong with some crappy food every once in a while, everybody has their cheat days, but it’s not realistic to expect to be able to do it regularly.

 

Water for Hydration
Water is one of the most critical nutrients in exercise. Staying properly hydrated involves replacing the fluids you lose through sweating and heavy breathing. Hydration keeps your heart rate from climbing too high, which, in turn, helps regulate your body temperature. According to the American Council on Exercise, every time you lose a liter of fluid through sweat, your heart rate increases by eight beats per minute. If fluid loss continues, your core temperature can become dangerously elevated. Drinking plenty of water before, during and after exercise helps ensure you complete your workout so you can meet your fitness goals in a safe manner.

 

Vitamins and Minerals for Metabolism
Vitamins and minerals are involved in many of your body’s functions that come into play during exercise, such as energy production and muscle contraction. Lack of any of these nutrients can therefore affect your ability to work out as you would like to. For example, your blood cells carry oxygen that is bound to an iron-rich protein, and if your dietary iron is low, you may become easily winded and fatigued during exercise. Vitamin C can help you absorb iron, and a deficiency of this vitamin can indirectly affect your iron levels. Electrolytes, such as sodium, help maintain fluid balance in your cells by pulling in water, and too little sodium in your diet can lead to muscle cramps as you exercise.

In conclusion, it is highly beneficial to eat healthy if you opt in for working out regularly. If you keep working out almost every day, you will be losing much energy and nutrients. If you want to remain healthy you need to replace all the lost energy.