What’s The Fitness Approach To Combating Aging Skin?

What’s The Fitness Approach To Combating Aging Skin? : It’s only natural for people to want to care for their skin. As advancing years approach, wrinkles and blemishes can start to have a negative impact on confidence, even for the most well-prepared and age-positive person.

The good news for fitness enthusiasts is that their exercise is going to have a big positive impact on skin health; one NIH study found that higher activity levels result in higher skin hydration and, as many people know, hydration is the key to youthful and fresh, healthy skin. Taking that exercise tilt to the next step and micro-targeting skin health through activity is something achievable even for hobbyists.

Looking at products

Products of course go a long way to helping to maintain healthy skin. Anti-aging skincare products typically contain some combination of collagen, hyaluronic acid, retinol and anti-inflammatory compounds to help soothe and remediate problem areas of the skin. Products also play a key role in protecting skin when you’re out and about. Sweating during exercise is of course normal, but proper skin care can help to protect against the drying action of the salts in sweat. Furthermore, it’s important to protect against the sun. Not only is UV light one of the key drivers of skin damage, but it can cause skin cancer – and, according to a landmark journal published by Science Daily, runners are at particular risk of developing such conditions. The long days spent outdoors running and exercising place you at risk – making SPF essential for both basic and long-term protection.

Improving hydration

Hydration is key to healthy skin. Ensuring water is able to reach every nook and cranny of the body’s largest organ can be tough. Urine color is a good estimate of hydration levels, but it’s never possible to be entirely sure. Thirst, for instance, only sets in once the body is already experiencing hydration. According to the Korey Stringer Institute, it’s important to closely track when you drink, how much you drink, and how much you need to replace lost water weight. It’s also crucial to bring salts into the equation. Staying properly hydrated is also about balancing salts with the water intake to ensure proper balance in the body.

Reducing stress – skin wellbeing

Aging skin is not necessarily a bad thing. ‘Laugh lines’, while sometimes spoken of derisively in the media, must be accepted – what’s better than having the marks of a life full of good humor? Similarly, holding on to stress, anxiety, and overworking the body can lead to poor skin quality. Harvard studies have shown that stress has a direct and deleterious impact on skin quality. In your workouts, make sure you’re working hard, but also pair it with proper breathing, relaxation, and time for your body to recover. Don’t work too hard in the pursuit of fueling your good health.

The trick to helping your fitness influence good skin is a threefold one. Use SPF; target your hydration to exact windows; and keep your stress levels down. More than anything, however, love and accept your skin; it’s the best remedy.