Why Sports Important?

Sports helped many people with HIV / AIDS to feel better and might strengthen the immune system. Exercise no control or fight HIV disease, but can help us feel better and fight the impact of HIV and side effects of drugs used by people with HIV / AIDS.

What Benefits Sports?
Sports are not too heavy and regularly performed the same benefits in people with HIV / AIDS as someone else. With exercise will:

• Increasing muscle mass and strength and resilience.
• Improving the resilience of the heart and lungs.
• Increase energy so you feel refreshed.
• Reduce stress.
• Increasing the sense of well-being.
• Helps stop or prevent the decline in CD4 count.
• Improve bone strength.
• Reducing cholesterol and triglycerides.
• Reducing fat in the abdomen.
• Increase your appetite.
• Improve sleep patterns.
• Improve the way the body wear and control of blood sugar (glucose).

Is Risk Sports?
We can become dehydrated (lose too much fluid) if we do not drink enough fluids to keep level.
We can lose lean body mass when we are too many sports. Severe cases can lead to wasting.
We can hurt ourselves when we use the wrong form of exercise.

Sports Guidelines for HIV / AIDS.
Do not be excessive.
Sports programs that are going to help your body convert food into muscle. Relax, and incorporate exercise into daily activities.

Exercise program to improve the schedule at least 20 minutes at least three times a week.
This schedule could lead to significant improvements in physical health and we are likely to feel better. HIV / AIDS can increase physical health through the same training as HIV-negative people. However, HIV / AIDS patients may experience greater difficulties to continue the training program due to fatigue.

Starting an exercise program while still healthy.
This can help us keep the symptoms of HIV that will lead us feel bad.
Strive to frequently update the exercise program so as not to become bored.

Looking for new ways to stay motivated to keep sports programs.
The level of our physical health may be lower than the first. It is vital we raise our exercise program radually so that we do not cause disease.

Eat and drink properly.
Drinking enough liquids is very important when you exercise. Additional water can help replace lost fluids. Remember that drinking tea, coffee, cola, chocolate or alcohol can actually remove the body fluids.

Do not eat when you exercise.
Actually, after a big meal, we should wait two hours before exercising. And after exercise, we should wait one hour before the next big meal.

Proper nutrition is also important.
With more body moves, we may need more calories to avoid weight loss.

Select a comfortable sport.
Choosing a comfortable sport activities. Do yoga, running, cycling, or other sports, doing something he likes to help us continue the program. Do not let it become a habit.

Changing activities as needed to stay motivated.
If the high level of physical health, we can follow the exercise bout. Involvement in sports is not risk playing transmit HIV to other athletes or coaches. When we are wounded and bleeding, the risk of transmitting HIV to others is very small. But when we bleed time sports, we should stop playing so that the wound can be covered.

Weightlifting exercise.
Weightlifting exercise or weight is one of the best ways to increase lean body mass that may be lost due to HIV disease and aging. Lift weights three times a week for one hour may be enough if done properly. Combining weight training with cardiovascular exercise (heart / blood flow system) for 30 minutes may be the best way to improve body composition and reduce fat (lipid) and sugar in the blood. Cardiovascular exercise is to train large muscle groups continuously for at least 30 minutes. Activities such as walking fast, jogging (running), cycling or swimming can be a cardiovascular exercise.

Baseline
Exercise can increase energy, fight fatigue and depression, increase endurance and cardiovascular health, helps reduce stress and promote muscle strength. There is also the impression that exercise can improve immune system health.