New sports that make us lose weight

New sports that make us lose weight

Speed, zen, fun or aquatic, today's fitness is as effective as it is recreational. Some tips to follow before you embark on these novelties that pulsate this year.

3 QUESTIONS to Professor Jean-Michel Oppert

Head of the nutrition department of Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris.

Why combine physical activity and diet?

Because exercise increases the efficiency of the diet tenfold. If you train regularly, you increase your muscle mass and you burn more calories. Working the muscles also causes the body to use the fat reserves as fuel. Physical activity also helps to maintain one's fitness weight and avoid Yo-Yo. And refine some rebellious body parts to dietetics.

What sport to practice?

The public health recommendations are 30 minutes daily of moderate intensity activity. But after a significant weight loss should rather aim for 1 hour per day. And combine low to medium intensity endurance exercises (swimming, cycling, cardiotraining) to mobilize fat with high intensity exercises (bodybuilding, cycling, sprints), to activate the metabolism sustainably.

Should you consult your doctor before you (re) put on it?

Yes, to avoid missing an undiagnosed disease and a contraindication. If you are over 50, if you have diabetes, cardiovascular disease, you consult a cardiologist.

BEFORE / AFTER THE SESSION

To begin: warm up

1. One skips by releasing the upper body and shoulders, and contracting the abs.

2. While still hopping, one spreads the legs and raises the arms, then feet in the center, one lets the arms fall along the body.

3. We run 2 min on the spot. The 2nd min, alternately up the left knee and right every 5 strides, keeping the body straight.

Finally: the "special silhouette" stretch

1. One sits right leg forward, left leg back, each forming a 90 ° angle with the body.

2. Right bust, one bends forward without rounding the back.

3. Bust straightened, one leans back until you feel the stretch in the quadriceps.

4. To optimize stretching, extend your left arm to the sky for 10 seconds.

5. We change legs and repeat the chain.