In order to exercise can be part of your lifestyle, we should first ask themselves. What will be achieved from the sport? Sports should not be a burden and make the body sick.

“The next day after practice, whether we feel sluggish or fresh? If fresh, it means that we have proper training. It should be re-examined if exercise makes our body sick,” said Dr. Michael Triangto, SpKO, sports medicine experts.

It is legitimate if you are exercising to pursue pleasure and victory. “Must be defined since the beginning of exercise goals. Whether for fun or healthy? If for healthy indeed seem boring in comparison with pleasure as he ran and hit the ball at full speed. All of course there are consequences, including the risk of sick and injured bodies,” said Dr. Michael .

To be safe, we should do a health check before starting the exercise. If there is no sports physician, Dr. Michael recommends making your own check list to assess the condition.

“Ask yourself, would walk half an hour does not make a weary body. If it does not suck should add a little. Sports that do not make the exhaustion of the body so as not to burden the heart,” he said.

Dr. Michael warned against sport for fun and achievement is not just a muscle injury. “There is a risk of heart enlargement due to training that is too heavy. This condition is common on a number of professional athletes,” said the doctors involved in this national training badminton. Not a few mainstay Indonesian badminton athletes have this problem.

Magnification of the heart can occur in excessive weight training. “Weight training is safe it should exhale when lifting weights so that the heart is not enlarged,” said Dr Michael. Holding the breath while lifting weights makes the air can not get out of the heart. This makes the heart swell.

Physiologically strenuous exercise can make a big heart. This enlargement does not provide specific symptoms or complaints. “At the still active exercise, cardiac enlargement does not cause the problem. The problem only existed when later stopped exercising. The consequence should continue to exercise. Otherwise, a big heart is like an empty house unoccupied,” he said.