Taking care of your body

I am a working student athlete. I have a lot of responsibilities that can be taxing on my

body. There were a few times when I would have classes, a soccer game and work all in one day. 

The only problem was I didn't know how to take care of my body. 

I did not know how much I didn't take care of my body, until I started playing soccer. I REALLY did not know how much I didn't take care of my body, until I started working.

 Just going from one activity to another my body sometimes would be running off of nothing: no food, no sleep, no hydration. 

To take better care of my body these are the four tips I follow:

1. Make sleep a priority

It’s ok, to give yourself permission to sleep, even when you have a million things to do. Trust me, your body will thank you for it. 

2. Eat well.

Eating well means feeding your body what it needs. Food is fuel. We need it to keep going. You don’t need to have full blown healthy meal.

3. Listen to pain.

Pain represents damage to our bodies. The longer you ignore it, the more it will come back to 

haunt you later.

4. Slow down.

 I always end up taking on way too much and running around to get everything finished. I can probably  do this sort of thing for a couple of days, before I am exhausted. My body, can’t handle that! Our bodies, can’t handle that!

So take care of your body by: sleeping, eating and resting.