YOGYAKARTA Sports does provide many health benefits, ranging from improving physical fitness to strengthening muscles and bones. However, if it is done excessively without paying attention to the limits of the body's ability, it can actually have a bad impact. One of the impacts of excessive exercise that often occurs is fatigue.

Excessive physical exercise will make the energy run out and the body become weak, nauseated, and even no more energy to do other activities. If you continue to force yourself to exercise, you can experience chronic fatigue syndrome.

The Impact Of Excessive Sports

Compiled from various sources, apart from fatigue, here are some negative impacts that you will feel if you exercise excessively:

The impact of this excessive exercise will be felt if you do sports that involve many back muscles, such as lifting weights, sitping, and so on. The physical exercise puts great pressure on the backbone, so it can cause pain if done too much.

Exercises that are carried out within reasonable limits can help a person get quality sleep. However, excessive exercise can actually result in insomnia or difficulty sleeping.

Excessive physical exercise causes stress. In response to stress, the body will produce excess cortisol. If this happens, you will become more alert and difficult to relax, thus disrupting the sleep process and causing insomnia.

The impact of excessive exercise can also cause muscle pain. This is because muscles have limited capacity to work and require time to recover after being used continuously.

If muscles are forced to work hard without providing enough rest time for recovery, muscle work can decrease so that the risk of an injury can be higher.

Based on studies conducted by experts, high-intensity exercise can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes in people with heart disease. In addition, excessive exercise can also weaken your heart. If you do not compensate for nutritious food, you are at risk of heart failure.

Osteoarthritis or joint inflammation also includes the negative impact of excessive exercise. This risk will increase on someone who does strenuous physical activity repetitively.

Excessive exercise can interfere with the menstrual cycle in women. This disorder can be in the form of irregular, late, or even not at all. This is caused by several factirs such as fatigue, physical stress, to energy imbalance.

Meanwhile, in men, over-intensive exercise can increase the risk of hypogonadism, namely the condition when the sexual hormone produced by the sexual gland is below normal. As a result, men will experience erectile difficulties, to infertility due to the testes being unable to produce sufficient sperm.

Bodies that are exhausted due to intense physical exercise can also reduce male sexual arousal.

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